Video To Shorts Skill

Q: What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Video To Shorts Skill skill fit in?

A Claude Code skill is a SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Video To Shorts Skill is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Content category. Learn more at https://claudskills.com/learn/what-is-skill-md/.

Category: Content · Sub-category: video · Last updated: 2026-11-01

Video to shorts skill: turn a long video (podcast, interview, talk, webinar, stream, YouTube video) into vertical short clips for TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts, then post them to one or many accounts with WoopSocial. Transcribes with word timestamps (free local faster-whisper, your own Groq or OpenAI key, or an existing SRT/VTT), scores every candidate moment with a clip rubric (hook, standalone, payoff), cuts 1080x1920 clips with ffmpeg, removes pauses, keeps the speaker in frame, burns word-by-word captions and a hook line, normalises the audio, and writes titles and captions. Works on Mac, Windows and Linux with ffmpeg and Pillow; no paid API required. Use when someone says "video to shorts," "clip my podcast," "turn this video into shorts," "make reels from my video," "podcast clips," "long video to short clips," or "repurpose my YouTube video." Clips only what the user owns or has permission to use, confirms before anything posts. Standalone: needs no other skills.

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From the source SKILL.md

One long video holds a week of short clips, if you pick the right moments. Most clips fail for the same reasons: they open on "so, like I was saying", they need the rest of the episode to make sense, they end before the point lands, the captions sit under TikTok's buttons, or the speaker is cut out of the frame.

What this skill does

Video To Shorts Skill is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the video sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/video-to-shorts-skill/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when someone says "video to shorts," "clip my podcast," "turn this video into shorts," "make reels from my video," "podcast clips," "long video to short clips," or "repurpose my YouTube video." Clips only what the user owns or has permission to use, confirms before anything posts.

Who uses this skill

The Video To Shorts Skill Claude Code skill is built for content creators, marketers, copywriters, SEO professionals, and editorial teams. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 213,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/video-to-shorts-skill
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/video-to-shorts-skill/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/video-to-shorts-skill/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/video-to-shorts-skill/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/video-to-shorts-skill/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\video-to-shorts-skill\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

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One-click install via the desktop app

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Frequently asked questions

How do I install the Video To Shorts Skill Claude Code skill?

Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/video-to-shorts-skill/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.

What does the Video To Shorts Skill skill do?

Is this skill free to install?

Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.

When should I use the Video To Shorts Skill skill?

Use Video To Shorts Skill when your Claude Code task falls under the Content category — specifically in the video area. Claude Code auto-discovers installed skills and invokes the right one based on the task description, so you can also ask Claude directly (e.g. "use Video To Shorts Skill" or describe the task and let Claude pick). Browse related skills at /category/content/.

What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Video To Shorts Skill skill fit in?

A Claude Code skill is a SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Video To Shorts Skill is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Content category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.

Attribution & license

Source: https://github.com/social-media-skills/video-to-shorts-skill/blob/HEAD/skills/video-to-shorts-skill/SKILL.md
License: MIT
Author: social-media-skills
Website: https://social-media-skills.com

Cite this skill

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APA

social-media-skills. (2026). Video To Shorts Skill [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/video-to-shorts-skill/

BibTeX

@misc{video-to-shorts-skill-2026,
  author    = {social-media-skills},
  title     = {Video To Shorts Skill [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/video-to-shorts-skill/}
}

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Security scan

Grade A · scanned 2026-11-01 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.

No risk patterns were found in any of the ten OWASP-aligned categories. How grading works ›

✓ Prompt injection
✓ Data exfiltration
✓ Supply chain
✓ Reverse shell
✓ Credentials
✓ Execution
✓ Filesystem
✓ Persistence
✓ Obfuscation
✓ Network

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