edit-footage-with-code SKILL.md skillA

edit-footage-with-code from varghq/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add varghq/skills/edit-footage-with-code@v1.0.1

Pins v1.0.1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
varghq/skills
Path
edit-footage-with-code/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
v1.0.1, committed Nov 6, 2026
First version recorded
Nov 4, 2026
Size
14,474 bytes
Repository stars
21
License
MIT

Edit real footage with an agent: turn raw takes of a talking head, podcast, vlog, course or ad into a clean cut, then add captions, B-roll, motion graphics and sound with HyperFrames or Remotion. Reads the take as text and audio, removes dead air, retakes and stumbles without clipping words, writes the cut as an edit list a person can review, keeps every graphic on the spoken word, and checks the result with numbers and frames before a person watches; tested scripts and defaults from 2,318…

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

# Edit footage with code

An agent can cut footage well when it stops trying to do everything at once. The people getting usable edits work in the same stages, whatever engine or language they use: read the take as text, agree a plan, cut the speech, lock the audio, then add picture on top, sound last. One prompt on long raw footage is the most repeated failure.

Which engine matters less than this order. Cut with ffmpeg and word timings. Add overlays in whichever engine the project already uses.

| Situation | Use |
|---|---|
| A plain cut with few graphics | ffmpeg only: stop after step 5 |
| Graphics on a cut, HTML-first, agent does the checks | HyperFrames: [references/hyperframes.md](references/hyperframes.md) |
| React codebase, brand system, or data-driven batches | Remotion: [references/remotion.md](references/remotion.md) |
| A person will finish in Resolve or Premiere | Any of the above, plus the FCPXML from step 5 |

## Rules that do not bend

1. **Never overwrite the source.** Write to new files.
2. **Cut only in the silence between words**, at the quietest 10 ms slice. Never inside a word.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add varghq/skills/edit-footage-with-code@sha256:37bdcb9b672b5eb7

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.1, 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.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Nov 4, 2026 and Nov 6, 2026, about one every 2 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v1.0.1 latest2026-11-06 f977c6f 14,474 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-11-04 4dc004a 14,600 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (14474 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
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

varghq/skills · 21 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_cirj3jgyen5nq53d
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=varghq/skills/edit-footage-with-code
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/37bdcb9b672b5eb732a75a6efbdaeec75570a33cb5030f2fa19c85dc59b97bbe

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