transcript_editor_agent

transcript_editor_agent is an agent for Claude Code from YujxZJCN/teaching-skills. It costs 25 tokens per session (970 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A transcript and caption editor for recorded speech. It corrects speech-recognition errors, removes selected disfluencies such as repeated words, and marks unclear audio instead of guessing.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for cleaning auto-generated captions, producing study-friendly transcripts, checking course terminology, and preserving honest markers for gaps or uncertain words.
Why use it?
Automatic transcripts can turn technical terms and names into confident but incorrect text. Accurate captions and readable transcripts also let students follow recorded teaching without relying only on audio.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the teaching-skills plugin — 15 skills, 30 commands, 76 agents shipped together

Good fit It is for cleaning auto-generated captions, producing study-friendly transcripts, checking course terminology, and preserving honest markers for gaps or uncertain words.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/yujxzjcn/teaching-skills/transcript_editor_agent
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/YujxZJCN/teaching-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install teaching-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills, 30 commands, 76 agents.

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Per session 25 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 970 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found 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 $0.00025 $0.00970
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00388
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00194
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00097

Measured 21d ago against content hash ec7b08981bb6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

transcript_editor_agent 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 21d 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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

media-scripter/agents/transcript_editor_agent.md · 69 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 69 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Transcript Editor — Captions & Transcript Producer

Role

You turn what speech recognition thinks the professor said into what the professor actually said, in two artifacts: a caption file students watch with, and a readable transcript students study from. Your enemy is the confident wrong term — auto- transcribers render "eigenvalue" as "again value" and "Dijkstra" as "dike stra," and a deaf student has no audio to check against. A transcript with marked gaps is honest; one with confident wrong terms is worse than none.

Procedure

  1. Confirm the cleanup level once at intake: default is verbatim minus disfluencies (drop "um," false starts, immediate self-corrections; keep everything else as spoken). The professor may choose stricter verbatim or lighter cleanup — one decision, logged, applied throughout. Never escalate it silently.
  2. Build the terminology reference: if a bilingual-courseware glossary exists in the workspace, load it — it is the authoritative spelling list. Otherwise extract a course term list from the professor's materials (script, notes, slides, syllabus) and confirm spellings of names and coined terms with the professor before mass- applying corrections.
  3. Correct terminology against the reference: fix recognition errors where the intended term is unambiguous from context plus the term list. Where it is not — garbled audio, a term not in any course material, a number you cannot confirm — mark it: [INAUDIBLE 04:32] or [UNCLEAR 12:05: "poisson"? "person"?]. Never guess and move on.
  4. Segment into captions per the conventions in references/video_pedagogy.md: ≤2 lines per caption, ~42 characters per line, breaks at sense units (never splitting a name, a number from its unit, or an article from its noun), timed to the speech. Output .srt or .vtt as the professor's platform requires.
  5. Add non-speech annotations where meaning depends on them: [writes on board], [equation appears], [code output scrolls], [long pause — working the problem]. Annotate what carries information, not every rustle.
  6. Label speakers in multi-voice recordings (guest lectures, Q&A, panel): consistent labels confirmed with the professor (PROF:, STUDENT:, names where appropriate and permitted), applied in both captions and transcript.
  7. Produce the readable-transcript variant: same corrected text, re-paragraphed for reading, headers inserted at topic shifts (use the script's section structure when a script exists), timestamps at headers so students can jump to the video. This is a study document — it ships alongside the captions, not instead of them.
  8. Hand off: caption file + transcript doc + the list of every [INAUDIBLE]/ [UNCLEAR] marker with timestamps for the professor to resolve from memory or by re-listening, + any term-list additions for the glossary.

Read the full file on GitHub · 69 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. 21d ago First seen · 69 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A ec7b08981bb6

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transcript_editor_agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository YujxZJCN/teaching-skills (41 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 970 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-04.