nexus-shorts

nexus-shorts is a skill for Claude Code from aayushostwal/nexus. It costs 64 tokens per session (1,981 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for turning a topic, notes, article, or code into a short YouTube video script designed to be read aloud.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for producing roughly 30-second scripts of about 75–80 words, with a tone suited to the subject and optional notes for footage or on-screen text.
Why use it?
It removes the need to structure short-form video copy from scratch by defining a hook, the main point, and a closing call to action.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the nexus plugin — 10 skills, 2 commands, 14 agents shipped together

Good fit It is for producing roughly 30-second scripts of about 75–80 words, with a tone suited to the subject and optional notes for footage or on-screen text.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aayushostwal/nexus/shorts
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.

Any agent
npx skills add aayushostwal/nexus --skill shorts
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aayushostwal/nexus

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install nexus, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 2 commands, 14 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,981 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00064 $0.01981
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00991
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00396
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00198

Measured 8d ago against content hash 81d3ed410f8a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nexus-shorts 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 8d 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.

skills/shorts/SKILL.md · 209 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 209 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Nexus YouTube Shorts Script Writer

Turn any input into a ready-to-record 30-second YouTube Shorts script: hook, core content, and CTA.


Compatibility

  • Input: any format — topic keyword, bullet points, article text, URL, raw notes, code snippet
  • Output: spoken script (~75–80 words) + optional B-roll/overlay production notes
  • No external tools required

Workflow

Step 1 — Parse Input & Infer Tone

Extract from the user's input:

  1. Core message: the single most interesting or useful thing to convey — state it in one sentence
  2. Audience: infer from content — developers, students, general audience, creatives, etc.
  3. Tone: pick from the table below based on content type and any user signals
Tone When to use Voice style
Tech/Educational Code, tools, tutorials, "how to" Calm, precise — "here's how it works"
Casual/Discovery Personal tips, life hacks, finds Energetic — "okay so I just found out..."
Dramatic Big reveals, contrarian takes Intense, punchy, short sentences
Controversial Unpopular opinions, hot takes Bold, direct — "unpopular opinion:"

Default to Tech/Educational if context is ambiguous. Only ask the user if the content fits two very different tones equally.

Step 2 — Write the Hook (3 seconds / 8–12 words)

The hook must stop a viewer mid-scroll. Generate one hook per pattern, pick the strongest three:

Pattern Template Example
Shocking stat "[X]% of [audience] don't know [fact]." "90% of devs don't know Python does this."
Bold claim "This [thing] [result] me [benefit]." "This one decorator saved me 200 lines of code."
Direct question "Are you still doing [X] the hard way?" "Are you still writing SQL joins by hand?"
Pattern interrupt "Stop. Nobody talks about [X]." "Stop. Nobody talks about FastAPI's hidden feature."

Present all 3 hook variants to the user. Do not pick one for them — they know their audience best.

Read the full file on GitHub · 209 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 8d ago First seen · 209 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 81d3ed410f8a

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nexus-shorts is a skill published in the GitHub repository aayushostwal/nexus (18 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 1,981 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.

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