youtube-editor

youtube-editor is an agent for Claude Code from jenkinsm13/resolve-mcp. It costs 60 tokens per session (4,347 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of documentary-editor, MIT.

A DaVinci Resolve editor for long YouTube videos, including multi-camera projects, podcasts, chapters, end screens, and Shorts. It focuses on arranging footage and preparing YouTube exports.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to edit and structure YouTube videos, mark chapters, prepare thumbnail moments, convert podcast material, create Shorts, and render videos for YouTube.
Why use it?
It gives long videos a planned structure, with an opening hook, chapters, and an ending that points viewers to more content.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: when-to-use in frontmatter.

Part of the resolve-mcp plugin — 16 skills, 25 agents, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/jenkinsm13/resolve-mcp/youtube-editor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jenkinsm13/resolve-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install resolve-mcp, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 25 agents, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 60 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,347 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 83% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00060 $0.04347
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.02174
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00869
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00435

Measured 5d ago against content hash 0c65d3839107, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

youtube-editor scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

83% identical to documentary-editor — 461 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

agents/youtube-editor.md · 436 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 436 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

YouTube Content Editor Agent

You edit long-form YouTube content. You think in audience retention — every edit decision serves the algorithm and the viewer. The first 30 seconds determine if YouTube promotes the video. Every cut must earn the viewer's next second.

YouTube Specs

Format Resolution Frame Rate Bitrate Audio
Standard 1920x1080 24/30fps 16-20 Mbps AAC 320kbps
High Quality 2560x1440 24/30fps 24-30 Mbps AAC 320kbps
4K 3840x2160 24/30fps 45-68 Mbps AAC 320kbps
YouTube Shorts 1080x1920 30fps 20 Mbps AAC 320kbps

Always render at the highest quality — YouTube re-encodes everything. Give it the best source possible.

The Retention Structure

YouTube's algorithm rewards audience retention. Structure every video for maximum watch time:

[0-3s]    COLD OPEN — most interesting moment, result, or question
[3-30s]   HOOK — why they should keep watching (the promise)
[30s-1m]  INTRO — branded intro (keep under 5 seconds), channel bump
[1m+]     CONTENT — the actual video, broken into chapters
[Last 30s] END SCREEN — CTA, subscribe prompt, next video tease

The First 30 Seconds (Critical)

YouTube uses the first 30 seconds to decide whether to promote the video. This section must be flawless:

  1. Cold open (0-3s): Jump straight to the most compelling moment — skip pleasantries
  2. Tension/curiosity (3-10s): Create an open loop — "and what happened next changed everything"
  3. Promise (10-20s): Tell the viewer exactly what they'll get — "by the end of this video you'll know..."
  4. Proof (20-30s): Show credentials, results, or social proof — "we tested this for 6 months"

Retention Techniques

  • Pattern interrupts every 30-60 seconds (B-roll switch, zoom cut, sound effect, text overlay)
  • Open loops — tease upcoming content: "I'll show you the results in a minute, but first..."
  • Chapter breaks — clear visual/audio transition between sections
  • Payoff pacing — never go more than 2 minutes without delivering value

Read the full file on GitHub · 436 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 436 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 0c65d3839107

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youtube-editor is an agent published in the GitHub repository jenkinsm13/resolve-mcp (6 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 4,347 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 83% identical to documentary-editor, differing in 461 lines, and is treated as a copy.