losslesscut

losslesscut is a skill for Claude Code from alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills. It costs 38 tokens per session (2,038 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for automating LosslessCut, a video, audio, and subtitle trimming application.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps trim media, preserve separate streams, choose suitable cut points, and process multiple segments from saved cut data.
Why use it?
It explains how to cut media quickly without re-encoding when the cut matches a suitable video keyframe, and when a small re-encode is needed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Part of the mas-video-lab plugin — 7 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps trim media, preserve separate streams, choose suitable cut points, and process multiple segments from saved cut data.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alivirgo/major-ai-skills/losslesscut
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 alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills --skill losslesscut
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mas-video-lab, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

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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Your own site
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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,038 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00038 $0.02038
Opus 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00815
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00408
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00204

Measured 6d ago against content hash b30c50d135dd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

losslesscut scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 6d 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.

Runs shell commandslowCapability

Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.

proc = subprocess.run(cmd, capture_output=True, text=True)
plugins/mas-video-lab/skills/losslesscut/SKILL.md · 199 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 199 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

LosslessCut Stream Editor AI Skill Guide (Claude)

Overview & Engine Architecture

LosslessCut (mifi/lossless-cut) is an Electron UI over FFmpeg stream copy (-c copy). Lossless cuts must start on decoder keyframes (IDR/I). Keyframe cut snaps start to a nearby keyframe (often earlier). Experimental Smart Cut re-encodes only from the desired start to the next keyframe, then copies the rest — unsupported for many files/codecs/multi-video-track cases.

Projects use .llc JSON5, schema version 2: mediaFileName, cutSegments[{ start, end?, name, tags?, selected? }].

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                 LosslessCut cut → export                      │
│                                                             │
│  Analysis                                                   │
│  ├── ffprobe packets/flags → keyframes ('K')                │
│  └── GOP spacing drives how “early” cuts start              │
│                                                             │
│  Cut modes                                                  │
│  ├── Keyframe cut (default, -ss before -i style)            │
│  ├── Exact/frame modes with caveats                         │
│  └── Smart Cut (experimental hybrid re-encode bridge)       │
│                                                             │
│  Interchange                                                │
│  ├── .llc v2 segments / CSV / YouTube chapters              │
│  └── ffmpeg concat demuxer for merge                        │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

When to use / when not to

Use when

  • Rough selects, removing intros/outros, splitting recordings, preserving codecs.
  • Generating .llc manifests or keyframe-aligned FFmpeg -c copy slices.
  • Extracting/keeping secondary audio or subtitle tracks during remux.

Do not use when

  • Frame-accurate creative edit with effects → NLE skills (@adobe-premiere-pro, @final-cut-pro, …).
  • Guaranteed frame-exact cut on arbitrary codecs without re-encode → full re-encode via @ffmpeg (or Smart Cut only if it works for that file).
  • DRM / encrypted media circumvention → refuse.

Read the full file on GitHub · 199 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 6d ago Changed · +39 lines · +10 tokens per session b30c50d135dd
  2. 1mo ago Changed · -14 tokens per session 392e748cf37e
  3. 2mo ago First seen · 160 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 009f4739650d

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losslesscut is a skill published in the GitHub repository alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 2,038 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (runs shell commands). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.