karaoke-captions

karaoke-captions is a skill for Claude Code from gabrielmoreira/agent-skills-mirror. It costs 64 tokens per session (844 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A video-caption tool that creates word-by-word highlighted karaoke subtitles. It uses speech recognition to time the words, ASS subtitle files to describe the styling, and FFmpeg to render the captions into a video.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps burn highlighted captions into videos, match a caption style from a reference image, and produce an MP4 with rendered subtitles.
Why use it?
It avoids manually timing and styling each word when making short-form videos with animated captions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Good fit It helps burn highlighted captions into videos, match a caption style from a reference image, and produce an MP4 with rendered subtitles.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gabrielmoreira/agent-skills-mirror/karaoke-captions
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 gabrielmoreira/agent-skills-mirror --skill karaoke-captions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gabrielmoreira/agent-skills-mirror

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 844 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 $0.00064 $0.00844
Opus 5.5 $0.00026 $0.00338
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00169
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00084

Measured 1mo ago against content hash af11b1ce69ca, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

karaoke-captions 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (scripts/extract_words.py, scripts/gen_ass.py, scripts/match_style_from_image.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

mirrors/repos/AI-Builder-Club@skills/skills/karaoke-captions/SKILL.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Karaoke Captions Skill

Generate dynamic, TikTok/Shorts-style karaoke captions with word-level highlight sweeps using ASS subtitles and FFmpeg libass. Supports style matching from a reference screenshot.

Scripts, presets, and references live next to this skill. Run the commands from the skill directory (or pass absolute paths).

Requirements

  • macOS with Apple Silicon (MLX Whisper)
  • Python 3.10+
  • FFmpeg with libass (brew install ffmpeg)
python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
reference.png --------(match_style_from_image.py)--------> style.json --+
                                                                   +--(gen_ass.py)--> captions.ass --(render.sh)--> output.mp4
input.mp4 ---------------------------------->(extract_words.py)--> words.json --+

File Architecture

File Purpose Role
input.mp4 Source video Input
reference.png Style reference image (optional) Visual Prompt
words.json Word-level timestamps [{"word": ..., "start": ..., "end": ...}] Persistent Raw Data
style.json Font, size, highlight color, outline, soft shadow, margin, words per line Style Config
captions.ass ASS subtitle script with two-layer blurred drop shadow and inline color overrides Generated Intermediate
output.mp4 Final video with burned-in subtitles Output Deliverable

Standard Workflow

Step 1. Extract Word Timestamps

python scripts/extract_words.py \
  input.mp4 words.json \
  --model mlx-community/whisper-large-v3-turbo

(For Chinese videos, add --language zh).

Step 2. Select Style or Auto-match from Reference Image

  • From Reference Image:
    python scripts/match_style_from_image.py \
      reference.png style.json --video input.mp4
    
  • From Presets:
    • presets/style.json: Default neon green highlight (#00FF00), Arial Black, all-caps, 4 words/line.
    • presets/yellow.json: Yellow highlight (#FFFF00), Arial Black, all-caps.

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 lines

Files

What ships with it

10 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. 1mo ago First seen · 111 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A af11b1ce69ca

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karaoke-captions is a skill published in the GitHub repository gabrielmoreira/agent-skills-mirror (19 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 844 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-17.

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