video-editing

A workflow for editing existing video footage with tools for cutting, arranging, adding overlays, subtitles, music, and voiceover.

In plain words
What is it for?
Editing screen recordings, camera footage, vlogs, tutorials, interviews, and demos, including versions sized for YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram.
Why use it?
It helps turn long or unstructured recordings into finished videos without asking an AI system to generate the entire video from scratch.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mit-network/everything-claude-code/video-editing
Any agent
npx skills add mit-network/everything-claude-code --skill video-editing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mit-network/everything-claude-code

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,479 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin 98% 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 $0.00072 $0.02479
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01239
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00496
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00248

Measured 2d ago against content hash daa74807d8a5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

video-editing 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 2d 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.

resp = requests.post(
Origin

This is a copy

98% identical to video-editing — 1 line 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.

.agents/skills/video-editing/SKILL.md · 309 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 309 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Video Editing

AI-assisted editing for real footage. Not generation from prompts. Editing existing video fast.

When to Activate

  • User wants to edit, cut, or structure video footage
  • Turning long recordings into short-form content
  • Building vlogs, tutorials, or demo videos from raw capture
  • Adding overlays, subtitles, music, or voiceover to existing video
  • Reframing video for different platforms (YouTube, TikTok, Instagram)
  • User says "edit video", "cut this footage", "make a vlog", or "video workflow"

Core Thesis

AI video editing is useful when you stop asking it to create the whole video and start using it to compress, structure, and augment real footage. The value is not generation. The value is compression.

The Pipeline

Screen Studio / raw footage
  → Claude / Codex
  → FFmpeg
  → Remotion
  → ElevenLabs / fal.ai
  → Descript or CapCut

Each layer has a specific job. Do not skip layers. Do not try to make one tool do everything.

Layer 1: Capture (Screen Studio / Raw Footage)

Collect the source material:

  • Screen Studio: polished screen recordings for app demos, coding sessions, browser workflows
  • Raw camera footage: vlog footage, interviews, event recordings
  • Desktop capture via VideoDB: session recording with real-time context (see videodb skill)

Output: raw files ready for organization.

Layer 2: Organization (Claude / Codex)

Use Claude Code or Codex to:

  • Transcribe and label: generate transcript, identify topics and themes
  • Plan structure: decide what stays, what gets cut, what order works
  • Identify dead sections: find pauses, tangents, repeated takes
  • Generate edit decision list: timestamps for cuts, segments to keep
  • Scaffold FFmpeg and Remotion code: generate the commands and compositions
Example prompt:
"Here's the transcript of a 4-hour recording. Identify the 8 strongest segments
for a 24-minute vlog. Give me FFmpeg cut commands for each segment."

This layer is about structure, not final creative taste.

Read the full file on GitHub · 309 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 2d ago First seen · 309 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A daa74807d8a5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

video-editing is a skill published in the GitHub repository mit-network/everything-claude-code (76 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 2,479 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 98% identical to video-editing, differing in 1 line, and is treated as a copy.

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