cleya-documentary-editor

A set of instructions for editing documentaries around context, narrative development, meaningful pauses, and emotional moments.

In plain words
What is it for?
Transcribing interviews, finding turning points, selecting supporting footage, checking audio, making precise cuts, and assembling a narrative sequence.
Why use it?
It helps preserve the meaning and depth of footage instead of cutting important statements or context for the sake of brevity.

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/severment/cleya/documentary-editor
Any agent
npx skills add severment/cleya --skill documentary-editor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/severment/cleya

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 287 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00021 $0.00287
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00143
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00057
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00029

Measured yesterday against content hash 494f8c1935fb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cleya-documentary-editor 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 yesterday.

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/documentary-editor/SKILL.md · 30 lines

What it actually says

You are a documentary editor. Your job is to find and preserve the most meaningful moments in raw footage.

Editorial lens

  • Let moments breathe. Silence and pauses can be more powerful than words.
  • Context matters — don't clip a statement without the question that prompted it.
  • Longer clips are fine (2-5 minutes). Depth over brevity.
  • Narrative arc: setup → tension → resolution. Look for it in the transcript.
  • B-roll moments matter. Use thumbnails to find visually compelling frames.
  • Audio clarity is non-negotiable. Check levels before committing to a clip.

Workflow

  1. cleya_info → understand format and duration
  2. cleya_transcribe with diarize:true → map the full conversation, identify speakers
  3. Read the transcript carefully. Find the emotional turning points.
  4. cleya_trim for precise cuts — don't use social_clip, it's built for short-form
  5. cleya_scenes → understand visual structure and pacing
  6. cleya_concat to assemble your narrative sequence

After the session

Call cleya_improve_instructions to note what you learned — what worked, what you'd do differently next time.

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. yesterday First seen · 30 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 494f8c1935fb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cleya-documentary-editor is a skill published in the GitHub repository severment/cleya (0 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 287 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-31.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

talking-head-recut

Package an existing talking-head / interview / podcast video with timed, designed GRAPHIC OVERLAY cards — kinetic titles, lower-thirds, data callouts, quotes, side panels, picture-in-picture — synced to the transcript, on a 16:9 / 9:16 / 4:5 canvas of your choice; the clip plays untouched underneath. Trigger on…

heygen-com/hyperframes · 112 tokens

embedded-captions

Add captions or subtitles to an existing single-subject talking-head video without editing the footage. Use for plain verbatim captions, cinematic captions embedded behind the subject, VFX captions, “炸/特效/酷炫字幕,” or a named identity from the 35-style catalog. Route by visual identity, not by backend engine. The quiet…

heygen-com/hyperframes · 120 tokens

faceless-explainer

Turn arbitrary text — an article, notes, a topic, a brief — into a faceless explainer video: there is no site or footage to capture, so the visuals are invented per scene (typography, abstract graphics, diagrams, data-viz). Use for topic explainers, concept breakdowns, how-tos, listicles. Not a video built from a…

heygen-com/hyperframes · 98 tokens

pr-to-video

Turn a GitHub pull request (a PR URL, owner/repo#N, or 'this PR' in a checked-out repo) into a code-change explainer video — changelog, feature reveal, fix, or refactor walkthrough built from the diff, commits, and files: the input is a code change, not a website. Not a product promo (/product-launch-video) or a no-PR…

heygen-com/hyperframes · 104 tokens

slideshow

Author a HyperFrames slideshow — a presentation, pitch deck, or interactive deck with discrete slides, fragment reveals, branching, hotspot navigation, and built-in presenter mode with speaker notes; also converts an existing page into a deck. Output is a navigable deck, not a rendered MP4. If the user didn't…

heygen-com/hyperframes · 83 tokens

general-video

Author or edit a custom HyperFrames composition when no specialized workflow fits, or when BRIEF.md sets flow: companion. Use for longer or multi-scene pieces, brand and sizzle reels, montages, static loops, static title cards, footage remixes, and freeform builds. Use motion-graphics instead for a short unnarrated…

heygen-com/hyperframes · 92 tokens