Youtube Clipper
Automate YouTube highlight clips with slicing, captions, and export for repurposed short-form distribution.
Overview
youtube-clipper is an agent skill most often used in Grow (also Launch) that automates YouTube highlight clipping with captions and export.
Install
npx skills add https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design --skill youtube-clipperWhat is this skill?
- Automated workflow: source video pull, highlight slicing, captions, export
- Triggers: youtube clip, video clip, highlight reel, auto caption clip
- Curated from @op7418 Youtube-clipper-skill upstream
- Open Design mode video, category video-generation
- Install upstream bundle for full scripts and editing pipeline
- 4 frontmatter trigger phrases
- workflow steps: pull video, slice highlights, captions, export
Adoption & trust: 790 installs on skills.sh; 61.4k GitHub stars; 1/3 security scanners passed (skills.sh audits).
What problem does it solve?
You have long YouTube footage but no time to manually cut highlights and caption clips for every channel.
Who is it for?
Indie creators repurposing webinars, tutorials, or podcasts into captioned short clips.
Skip if: Hollywood-grade color grading, rights-cleared b-roll libraries, or platforms that forbid automated downloading without you verifying ToS compliance.
When should I use this skill?
User mentions youtube clip, video clip, highlight reel, or auto caption clip.
What do I get? / Deliverables
You get an automated clip pipeline—slice, caption, export—after installing the upstream Youtube-clipper-skill bundle.
- Exported highlight clip files with captions per upstream workflow
Recommended Skills
Journey fit
Spans multiple journey phases - primary shelf plus alternate fits below.
Long-form video repurposing is a growth motion; canonical shelf is Grow/content where solo builders compound reach from existing recordings. Content subphase covers turning full videos into captioned clips without manual NLE grunt work.
Where it fits
Turn last week’s livestream into five captioned shorts for TikTok and LinkedIn.
Ship a launch-day highlight reel from your demo YouTube upload.
Clip onboarding tips from a flagship tutorial for emailed nurture sequences.
Extract a 30-second proof clip from a founder walkthrough for a waitlist page.
How it compares
Agent-packaged clip automation versus ad-hoc ffmpeg snippets with no caption or highlight workflow.
Common Questions / FAQ
Who is youtube-clipper for?
Solo builders and creators using coding agents who publish on YouTube and want discoverable automation for clips and captions.
When should I use youtube-clipper?
In Grow when batching content repurposing; at Launch when you need highlight reels for a release; whenever triggers like youtube clip or highlight reel match.
Is youtube-clipper safe to install?
Review Prism Security Audits on this page and the upstream Youtube-clipper-skill repo before granting network, shell, or filesystem access to video jobs.
SKILL.md
READMESKILL.md - Youtube Clipper
# youtube-clipper > Curated from @op7418. ## What it does YouTube clip generation and editing with automated workflows — pull source video, slice highlights, add captions, and export. ## Source - Upstream: https://github.com/op7418/Youtube-clipper-skill - Category: `video-generation` ## How to use This catalogue entry advertises the skill in Open Design so the agent discovers it during planning. To run the full upstream workflow with its original assets, scripts, and references, install the upstream bundle into your active agent's skills directory: ```bash # Inspect the upstream README for exact paths open https://github.com/op7418/Youtube-clipper-skill ``` Then ask the agent to invoke this skill by name (`youtube-clipper`) or with one of the trigger phrases listed in this skill's frontmatter.