In the carousel you saw the inventory: 10 GitHub repos that turn Claude into your video editor. Here’s what I promised: all 10 links, what each one does, its stars, its license and how to install it in one line.
Note
Before you start. You need Claude Code installed, git, Node 18+ and Python 3.10+. Almost all of them also need ffmpeg on your PATH (on Mac: brew install ffmpeg). Stars and licenses checked with the GitHub API on November 8, 2026.
How to install a Claude Code skill (works for almost all of them)
Install a video skill in Claude Code
Clone the repo
git clone <repo link>
Copy the skill
To ~/.claude/skills/ (all your projects) or to your project’s .claude/skills/. If the repo has its own installer, use that.
Restart Claude Code
So it loads the new skill.
Just ask for it
“Edit this video: cut the silences and add captions.”
Always read each repo’s README: some have their own installer or ask for API keys for external services.
The 10 repos at a glance
| # | Repo | What it does | ★ GitHub | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ghost Editor | Talking-head footage → finished reel | 255 | MIT |
| 2 | FFmpeg Skill | Cut, trim, captions and export locally | 4,789 | MIT |
| 3 | Claude Shorts | Long video → Shorts with animated captions | 351 | MIT |
| 4 | Video Editor Agent | Clone the style of a reference reel | 140 | No license declared |
| 5 | Motion Skills | 50 motion graphics skills | 1,284 | MIT |
| 6 | yt-dlp | Download videos from hundreds of sites | 206,135 | Unlicense |
| 7 | Whisper | Speech-to-text transcription | 112,230 | MIT |
| 8 | Awesome Claude Video Skills | List of 180 AI video repos | 1,745 | Not declared |
| 9 | Three.js Skills | 3D scenes and animations | 4,073 | MIT |
| 10 | HyperFrames | Video with code: HTML and CSS → MP4 | 80,844 | Apache-2.0 |
Skills to edit your videos
1. Ghost Editor: from talking-head footage to reel
You give it your raw recording and it hands back the finished reel: it picks the best takes, cuts, and adds captions and graphics. It’s an open source video editor built for Claude Code and for anyone who films themselves talking to camera.
- Link: github.com/kurbaitaev/ghost-editor · 255 ★ · MIT
- Install: clone the repo and follow its README to add it to Claude Code.
2. FFmpeg Skill: cut and export, all locally
42 FFmpeg tools packaged for agents: cut, trim, reframe to vertical, normalize volume, captions and export for every platform. All on your computer, no cloud and no API keys. It also ships an MCP server.
- Link: github.com/kajisho5/ffmpeg-skill · 4,789 ★ · MIT
- Install:
npx ffmpeg-skill3. Claude Shorts: from long video to Shorts
It takes a long video (podcast, livestream, tutorial), scores the best moments with AI, crops them to vertical and adds animated captions rendered with Remotion. It snaps the cuts to the audio so it never cuts a sentence in half.
- Link: github.com/AgriciDaniel/claude-shorts · 351 ★ · MIT
- Install: clone the repo and copy the skill to
~/.claude/skills/.
4. Video Editor Agent: clone a reel’s style
A pack of skills to edit short-form video end to end. The star is reel-style-clone: you give it a reference reel and it edits your video in the same style. It includes branded motion graphics, sound design with ElevenLabs and frame-by-frame review.
- Link: github.com/mrpaidsocial/mrpaidsocial-video-editor-agent · 140 ★ · no license declared
- Install: clone the repo and open it with Claude Code (the skills are already in
.claude/skills/).
Note
Watch the license. It’s public and free, but it doesn’t declare an open source license: use it for your own videos, but don’t redistribute it or put it in a product.
5. Motion Skills: 50 motion graphics skills
50 skills so Claude can make animated text, data graphics, explainer videos, TikTok and Reels formats, WebGL and Manim, in 14 installable packs.
- Link: github.com/iart-ai/motion-skills · 1,284 ★ · MIT
- Install: clone the repo and copy the skills you want to
~/.claude/skills/. This is the free repo; the iart.ai website is a separate paid product.
Core tools Claude uses under the hood
6. yt-dlp: download videos
The most widely used command-line video and audio downloader: YouTube and hundreds of other sites. Claude uses it to pull in your own footage or a reference you have permission to use.
- Link: github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp · 206,135 ★ · Unlicense
- Install:
brew install yt-dlp # or: pip install yt-dlpNote
Only your own content or content you have permission to use. Downloading other people’s videos can violate the platform’s terms and copyright.
7. Whisper: transcribe for captions
OpenAI’s speech recognition model, free and local. It turns your voice into timestamped text: it’s the foundation for word-by-word captions and for “transcript-based” editing (you delete lines from the text and they get cut from the video).
- Link: github.com/openai/whisper · 112,230 ★ · MIT
- Install:
pip install -U openai-whisper8. Awesome Claude Video Skills: the list with many more
Nothing to install: it’s an index of about 180 repos that let Claude Code and other agents make video, sorted by type and with a security note for each repo. Open it when you’re looking for something specific.
- Link: github.com/zhuyansen/awesome-claude-video-skills · 1,745 ★ · license not declared (check the repo)
9. Three.js Skills: 3D animations
Skills so Claude can build 3D scenes with Three.js: animated objects, lights and camera moves. Handy for 3D backgrounds, intros and logos without opening Blender.
- Link: github.com/CloudAI-X/threejs-skills · 4,073 ★ · MIT
- Install: clone the repo and copy the skills to
~/.claude/skills/.
10. HyperFrames: videos made with code
A framework from HeyGen: you write a page in HTML and CSS with animations and it renders it to MP4 frame by frame. Perfect for explainers, ads and product demos that Claude can write on its own.
- Link: github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes · 80,844 ★ · Apache-2.0
- Install: follow the quick start in the README (
hyperframesCLI).
Which repo to use for your case
| If you want to… | Use |
|---|---|
| Edit what you film talking to camera | Ghost Editor + Whisper |
| Pull Shorts out of a long video | Claude Shorts |
| Cut, reframe and export fast | FFmpeg Skill |
| Copy the style of a reel you like | Video Editor Agent |
| Animated text and graphics | Motion Skills or HyperFrames |
| 3D intros and backgrounds | Three.js Skills |
| Find something that isn’t here | Awesome Claude Video Skills |
Tip
Want it all set up without installing anything? My Fábrica de Reels pack comes with the full workflow ready to go in Claude Code: script, voice, animation and captions. It’s optional: all 10 repos work without it.