video-to-shorts

video-to-shorts is a skill for Claude Code from augchan42/inkstone. It costs 102 tokens per session (3,742 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A workflow that turns a long talking video, such as an interview or lecture, into short vertical clips for YouTube Shorts, Reels, or TikTok.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to transcribe suitable talking footage, suggest self-contained moments, cut clips up to 60 seconds, crop them to 9:16, and burn in subtitles.
Why use it?
It removes much of the manual work of finding soundbites, cropping video to a phone-friendly shape, and adding subtitles.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the inkstone plugin — 21 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to transcribe suitable talking footage, suggest self-contained moments, cut clips up to 60 seconds, crop them to 9:16, and burn in subtitles.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/augchan42/inkstone/video-to-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 augchan42/inkstone --skill video-to-shorts
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/augchan42/inkstone

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install inkstone, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills, 1 hook.

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Per session 102 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,742 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 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 $0.00102 $0.03742
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.01871
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00748
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00374

Measured 11d ago against content hash 10d1cee7f6c1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

video-to-shorts scanned grade B with 2 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 11d 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

| **Linux** | `sudo apt install ffmpeg` (Debian/Ubuntu builds include libass) — or `brew install ffmpeg` on Linuxbrew. |

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -L https://evermeet.cx/ffmpeg/getrelease/ffmpeg/zip -o /tmp/ff.zip
skills/video-to-shorts/SKILL.md · 243 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 243 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Video → Shorts

Turn a long talking-head video into one or more polished vertical shorts (≤ 60s, 9:16, burned-in subtitles). The skill transcribes the source, auto-suggests the best moments, then cuts, crops, and subtitles a clip you approve.

The deliverable is a finished *-en.mp4 ready to upload by hand. No YouTube account, API key, or upload CLI needed.

When to use

  • "Make shorts/reels/clips out of this podcast / interview / talk"
  • "Find the best moments in this video and cut vertical clips"
  • "Transcribe this and pull out quotable soundbites"
  • Any long-form talking footage that needs to become short vertical content

Best for static, single- or two-person talking footage. Fast-cut montages, music videos, or heavy on-screen graphics need a human editor — flag that and stop.

One-time setup (cross-platform)

You need three tools: ffmpeg with libass (cut/crop/burn-in), Whisper (transcription), and optionally yt-dlp (only if the source is a URL).

ffmpeg — must include libass (for subtitle burn-in)

Check first: ffmpeg -version | grep -o libass. If it prints libass, you're done.

OS Install
Linux sudo apt install ffmpeg (Debian/Ubuntu builds include libass) — or brew install ffmpeg on Linuxbrew.
Windows (WSL2) Inside Ubuntu-on-WSL: sudo apt install ffmpeg. Do everything from the WSL shell, not PowerShell.
macOS ⚠️ Default Homebrew ffmpeg omits libass — the subtitles filter fails with a cryptic "No option name near …". Install a libass static build to ~/.local/bin:
# macOS only — libass-enabled static ffmpeg
mkdir -p ~/.local/bin
curl -L https://evermeet.cx/ffmpeg/getrelease/ffmpeg/zip -o /tmp/ff.zip
unzip -o /tmp/ff.zip -d ~/.local/bin/
chmod +x ~/.local/bin/ffmpeg
~/.local/bin/ffmpeg -version | grep -E "libass|libfreetype"   # both must appear

On macOS, use ~/.local/bin/ffmpeg for the burn-in step only; the system ffmpeg is fine for cut/crop.

Read the full file on GitHub · 243 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. 11d ago First seen · 243 lines · 102 tokens per session scan B 10d1cee7f6c1

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video-to-shorts is a skill published in the GitHub repository augchan42/inkstone (4 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 3,742 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (asks for root, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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