vtake-cut

vtake-cut is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from notedit/vtake-skills. It costs 62 tokens per session (20,657 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of talking-head-recut, MIT.

A local-video workflow that extracts video details and a timestamped transcript, then turns the content into an HTML card-based video and renders it as an MP4 file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to clean up transcripts, create video takeaways, or repurpose a local recording into a designed summary video.
Why use it?
It removes the manual work of transcribing a video, planning its structure, writing visual cards, and assembling the final edit. The intermediate files make the generated video easier to inspect and adjust.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to clean up transcripts, create video takeaways, or repurpose a local recording into a designed summary video.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/notedit/vtake-skills/vtake-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 notedit/vtake-skills --skill vtake-cut
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/notedit/vtake-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 20,657 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 81% 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 $0.00062 $0.20657
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.10328
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.04131
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.02066

Measured 9d ago against content hash 8d727d9b8bdd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vtake-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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (assets/vendor/gsap.min.js), 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.

Origin

This is a copy

81% identical to talking-head-recut — 1,364 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.

skills/vtake-cut/SKILL.md · 1,486 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,486 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

VTake Local Workflow

VTake converts a local input video into a card-based composition. The agent designs the cards (timing + content) and writes each card's HTML directly in the conversation, then assembles a single composition HTML and renders it to MP4 via hyperframes. There is no fixed archetype list and no prescribed card structure — the cards emerge from what the transcript actually says.

Inspectable intermediate files in the work directory:

  • metadata.json — duration / width / height / fps
  • audio.mp3 — extracted audio
  • transcript.json — segments + words with timestamps
  • storyboard.json — lightweight card outline (the agent's plan)
  • public/cards/card-XX.html — one HTML fragment per card
  • public/index.html — final assembled composition
  • output.mp4 — rendered video

CLI Resolution

# vtake CLI — auto-downloaded from npm on first run
npx -y @notedit/vtake@latest --help

# hyperframes — for rendering the assembled HTML to MP4
npx hyperframes render --help

Every vtake … command below is shorthand for npx -y @notedit/vtake@latest ….

Workflow

1. Check Environment

npx -y @notedit/vtake@latest doctor
# confirm bundled assets:
ls "<SKILL_DIR>/assets/fonts" "<SKILL_DIR>/assets/vendor/gsap.min.js"

Required:

  • ffmpeg / ffprobe (system)
  • <SKILL_DIR>/assets/fonts/*.woff2, <SKILL_DIR>/assets/vendor/gsap.min.js (bundled inside this skill, staged to work dir in Step 9)

Optional:

  • ELEVEN_API_KEY — when set, vtake transcribe connects to ElevenLabs directly and bypasses the rate-limited proxy. When not set, it falls back to https://vtake.app/api/transcribe, which enforces 3 requests per minute per IP. Override the proxy URL with VTAKE_TRANSCRIBE_ENDPOINT (e.g. for local Wrangler dev).

Strongly recommended on macOS for hyperframes render:

export PRODUCER_BROWSER_GPU_MODE=hardware

2. Create a Work Directory

VIDEO_PATH="/absolute/path/input.mp4"
WORK_DIR=".vtake-work/$(basename "$VIDEO_PATH" | sed 's/\.[^.]*$//')"
mkdir -p "$WORK_DIR"

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,486 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. 9d ago First seen · 1,486 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 8d727d9b8bdd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

vtake-cut is a skill published in the GitHub repository notedit/vtake-skills (114 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 20,657 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 81% identical to talking-head-recut, differing in 1,364 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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