video-to-shorts SKILL.md skillA
video-to-shorts from augchan42/inkstone is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add augchan42/inkstone/video-to-shorts@v2.0.0Pins v2.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- augchan42/inkstone
- Path
skills/video-to-shorts/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- v2.0.0, committed Sep 15, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 15, 2026
- Size
- 13,403 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- MIT
Use when turning a long video (interview, podcast, talk, lecture, webinar) into short vertical clips for YouTube Shorts / Reels / TikTok. Transcribes with word timings, scores the most engaging self-contained moments, then renders each short from a JSON edit list - hook first, a cut to whoever speaks or reacts, punch-ins, tightened pauses, word-timed captions with the active word highlighted, a name lower third, a held ending that fades to a logo end card with a ding, speed variants at -14 LUFS.
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
# Video → Shorts Turn a long talking-head video into vertical shorts (9:16, 25-45 s, captions in the picture). The skill transcribes the source, **scores the best moments**, plans an edit for the moment you pick, and renders it with `scripts/build-short.py`. The deliverable is a finished mp4, ready to upload by hand, in a few variants (speed and caption style) so the owner can choose. No YouTube account, API key or upload CLI needed. **v2 changed the approach.** v1 made a trimmed, cropped copy of the source with an SRT burned in. A professional reviewer called that flat. v2 edits for retention: hook first, cuts to each speaker and to reactions, captions from word timings, a held ending and an end card. Read `references/retention-edit.md` before you plan a cut. For two people on one wide shot, also read `references/two-speaker.md`. ## When to use - "Make shorts/reels/clips out of this podcast / interview / talk" - "Find the best moments in this video and cut vertical clips" - "Make this short more lively / add captions / add an end card" - Any long-form talking footage that needs to become short vertical content …
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How to install
mdr add augchan42/inkstone/video-to-shorts@sha256:6fb10f459dceb730The line at the top of this page pins the label v2.0.0, 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_rks3aqaoehphqrhj)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jun 15, 2026 and Sep 15, 2026, about one every 46 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v2.0.0 latest | 2026-09-15 | 058e796 | 13,403 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-06-15 | bcc139c | 13,281 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-06-15 | 3cbd9d1 | 11,045 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
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Source
augchan42/inkstone · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_rks3aqaoehphqrhj GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=augchan42/inkstone/video-to-shorts GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6fb10f459dceb73077c5b7c7aba5b58cc6f7d1b930e60a63f38be90990352283
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