clean-cut

clean-cut is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Mark-Life/agent-skills. It costs 100 tokens per session (2,222 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A video-editing guide for tightening talking-head or screen recordings while keeping every spoken word. It removes filler sounds, clicks, throat clears, and long pauses, then creates preview and final renders.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to clean up, de-um, or cut pauses from recordings in any language, with a small speed increase and specified audio and video output settings.
Why use it?
It reduces distracting gaps and noises without changing the recording's content or order. The result is a shorter, more consistent recording.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to clean up, de-um, or cut pauses from recordings in any language, with a small speed increase and specified audio and video output settings.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mark-life/agent-skills/clean-cut
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 Mark-Life/agent-skills --skill clean-cut
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Mark-Life/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 100 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,222 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 $0.00100 $0.02222
Opus 5.5 $0.00040 $0.00889
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00444
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00222

Measured 27d ago against content hash 279c456b9b6a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

clean-cut 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 27d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/build_edl.py, scripts/render.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.

skills/video/clean-cut/SKILL.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Clean Cut

A clean cut keeps every spoken word and removes only the non-content between words: hesitation sounds, audio events, and dead air. The viewer should not notice an edit happened, only that the video is shorter and tighter.

This skill is a style layer on top of video-use (~/.agents/skills/video-use/SKILL.md, source: browser-use/video-use). Read its SKILL.md first: its Hard Rules apply here unchanged. video-use provides transcription and visual checks. This skill decides what to cut and ships its own cut builder and renderer.

Defaults

Setting Value
Content every word kept, no sections removed, no reordering
Cut fillers, audio events, silences ≥ 0.4s
Pause left after a cut ~0.27s source (≈0.25s at 1.1x)
Pause when the screen changes during silence ~0.8s, so the viewer sees the change
Word parasites (like, you know, как бы, вот) kept: removing them risks changing meaning. Offer as an option in the report
Speed 1.1x, pitch preserved (atempo)
Frame rate 30 fps
Loudness two-pass loudnorm to -14 LUFS (screen recordings are often ~-29 LUFS)
Grade, subtitles, overlays none
Iteration 1080p30 preview first → user approves → 4K30 final with the same EDL
Source file never modified; all output in <videos_dir>/edit/

The user already stated this strategy by invoking the skill. Confirm only the unknowns: content type (screen recording or talking head) and language if unclear. Then execute without a separate strategy round.

Setup

  • VU = the video-use repo root: $(dirname "$(readlink -f ~/.agents/skills/video-use/SKILL.md)"). H = $VU/helpers.
  • PY = video-use's Python with its deps ($VU/.venv/bin/python after uv sync). This skill's own scripts are stdlib-only and run with any python3.
  • CC = this skill's folder. E = <videos_dir>/edit. SRC = the source video.
  • ElevenLabs key: ELEVENLABS_API_KEY in the environment or $VU/.env. The key needs the Speech to Text permission. A 401 with missing_permissions means the key exists but that toggle is off: the user enables it in ElevenLabs → Developers → API Keys.

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 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. 27d ago First seen · 120 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A 279c456b9b6a

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clean-cut is a skill published in the GitHub repository Mark-Life/agent-skills (3 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 2,222 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-25.