captions-from-transcript SKILL.md skillA
captions-from-transcript from skillmedev/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add skillmedev/skills/captions-from-transcript@git:20261005.bea4ea5Pins git:20261005.bea4ea5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- skillmedev/skills
- Path
skills/captions-from-transcript/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261005.bea4ea5, committed Oct 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 5, 2026
- Size
- 4,065 bytes
- Repository stars
- 19
- License
- MIT
Produce an accurate, properly timed caption track (SRT or WebVTT) from a video's audio - transcribing or aligning to the voiceover script, timing cues to speech, and enforcing line-length and reading-speed rules so captions are readable and in sync. Use when someone says "generate captions", "make subtitles from the audio", "transcribe and caption this", "export an SRT or VTT", "the captions are out of sync", or "the subtitles flash by too fast to read". Do NOT use to burn-in, style, reframe…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Captions From Transcript Captions are not optional polish - they are accessibility, they hold viewers watching muted, and for tutorials they reinforce exact UI terms. This skill produces a **clean, accurately timed caption file**. Styling and burn-in happen downstream. ## Source the most accurate text first Accuracy comes from where you start: - **If a narration script exists, use it as ground truth.** It is already correct on technical terms and UI labels. Align it to the audio rather than re-transcribing from scratch. - **Otherwise transcribe the audio** (Whisper, a platform's auto-caption, or any ASR), then **correct it against the video**. ASR reliably mangles product names, code, and acronyms - fix every one to match what is on screen exactly. Never ship raw ASR output. The errors are always in the highest-value words. ## Time the cues to speech - Each cue appears as its line is spoken and clears when it ends - align to speech, not to arbitrary intervals. - Minimum ~1 second on screen (even for a short cue), maximum ~7 seconds. Split anything longer. - No gaps mid-sentence; small gaps between sentences are fine and aid readability. ## Line and reading rules …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add skillmedev/skills/captions-from-transcript@sha256:27b9be0e8edfc057The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261005.bea4ea5, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_5efcdjpclgzagc2q)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 5, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026, about one every 46 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261005.bea4ea5 latest | 2026-10-05 | bea4ea5 | 4,065 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260705.a28c4ce | 2026-07-05 | a28c4ce | 4,019 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260705.acb5571 | 2026-07-05 | acb5571 | 4,057 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4065 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
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- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
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- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
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- pass: No script tag
Source
skillmedev/skills · 19 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-13 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_5efcdjpclgzagc2q GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=skillmedev/skills/captions-from-transcript GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/27b9be0e8edfc057d908b18ae368765faa5add6708a3d739555573c2fdcfa3e8
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.