clip-hand-skill

clip-hand-skill is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from librefang/librefang-registry. It costs 28 tokens per session (4,990 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of clip-hand-skill, MIT.

A guide to cutting clips from online videos using yt-dlp for downloading, Whisper for transcription, SRT for subtitle files, and FFmpeg for media processing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Download videos, create transcripts and SRT subtitles, add subtitles with FFmpeg, inspect media, and run the workflow on macOS, Linux, or Windows.
Why use it?
It collects the commands and platform-specific details needed to download, transcribe, subtitle, and process video without trial and error.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Download videos, create transcripts and SRT subtitles, add subtitles with FFmpeg, inspect media, and run the workflow on macOS, Linux, or Windows.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/librefang/librefang-registry/clip
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 librefang/librefang-registry --skill clip
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/librefang/librefang-registry

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,990 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00028 $0.04990
Opus 5.5 $0.00011 $0.01996
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00998
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00499

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 8367a34a9046, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

clip-hand-skill 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 1mo 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -s -X POST "https://api.groq.com/openai/v1/audio/transcriptions" \
Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to clip-hand-skill — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

hands/clip/SKILL.md · 475 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 475 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Video Clipping Expert Knowledge

Cross-Platform Notes

All tools (ffmpeg, ffprobe, yt-dlp, whisper) use identical CLI flags on Windows, macOS, and Linux. The differences are only in shell syntax:

Feature macOS / Linux Windows (cmd.exe)
Suppress stderr 2>/dev/null 2>NUL
Filter output | grep pattern | findstr pattern
Delete files rm file1 file2 del file1 file2
Null output device -f null - -f null - (same)
ffmpeg subtitle paths subtitles=clip.srt subtitles=clip.srt (relative OK, absolute needs C\\:/path)

IMPORTANT: ffmpeg filter paths (-vf "subtitles=...") always need forward slashes. On Windows with absolute paths, escape the colon: subtitles=C\\:/Users/me/clip.srt

Prefer using file_write tool for creating SRT/text files instead of shell echo/heredoc.


yt-dlp Reference

Download with Format Selection

# Best video up to 1080p + best audio, merged
yt-dlp -f "bv[height<=1080]+ba/b[height<=1080]" --restrict-filenames -o "source.%(ext)s" "URL"

# 720p max (smaller, faster)
yt-dlp -f "bv[height<=720]+ba/b[height<=720]" --restrict-filenames -o "source.%(ext)s" "URL"

# Audio only (for transcription-only workflows)
yt-dlp -x --audio-format wav --restrict-filenames -o "audio.%(ext)s" "URL"

Metadata Inspection

# Get full metadata as JSON (duration, title, chapters, available subs)
yt-dlp --dump-json "URL"

# Key fields: duration, title, description, chapters, subtitles, automatic_captions

YouTube Auto-Subtitles

# Download auto-generated subtitles in json3 format (word-level timing)
yt-dlp --write-auto-subs --sub-lang en --sub-format json3 --skip-download --restrict-filenames -o "source" "URL"

# Download manual subtitles if available
yt-dlp --write-subs --sub-lang en --sub-format srt --skip-download --restrict-filenames -o "source" "URL"

# List available subtitle languages
yt-dlp --list-subs "URL"

Read the full file on GitHub · 475 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. 1mo ago First seen · 475 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 8367a34a9046

Subscribe to this mod's changes

clip-hand-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository librefang/librefang-registry (11 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 4,990 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 100% identical to clip-hand-skill, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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