clip-factory
Turn one long video, podcast, or stream transcript into 8-12 short-form clips — each with a hook line, cut timestamps, captions, and a platform note for TikTok/Reels/Shorts — plus an honesty gate that kills clips that misrepresent the source. Use when someone says 'clip this podcast', 'make shorts from my video', 'what's clippable here', or runs a clipping side hustle. Produces a ranked clip sheet ready for an editor or a clipping app.
npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill clip-factory --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Clip Factory Skill Clipping is a real economy now — creators pay per viral clip, and one 90-minute conversation can feed a channel for two weeks. But most clip sheets are made by scrubbing for loud moments, which finds volume, not virality. The clips that travel have a *complete arc in under 60 seconds*: a hook that creates a question, a middle that pays it, an end that lands before attention dies. This skill mines a transcript for those arcs, writes the hooks, marks the cuts — and runs the gate clip farms skip: does this clip mean what the speaker meant? Out-of-context bait gets engagement and burns the channel that posted it. ## What This Skill Produces - A **ranked clip sheet**: 8–12 clips, best first, each with hook text (first 1.5 seconds on screen), cut timestamps, runtime, and why it works - **Caption blocks** per clip: on-screen hook, caption text, 3–5 tags that are actually about the content - A **platform note** per clip: where it fits best and any recut (Shorts favours faster cold opens; TikTok tolerates 5 more seconds of setup) - The **honesty gate log**: clips that were strong but cut for misrepresentation, and what would make them fair ## Required Inputs Ask for (if
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- Framework: what makes a clip travel
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What does the clip-factory skill do?
Turn one long video, podcast, or stream transcript into 8-12 short-form clips — each with a hook line, cut timestamps, captions, and a platform note for TikTok/Reels/Shorts — plus an honesty gate that kills clips that misrepresent the source. Use when someone says 'clip this podcast', 'make shorts from my video', 'what's clippable here', or runs a clipping side hustle. Produces a ranked clip sheet ready for an editor or a clipping app.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill clip-factory --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, a repository with 1,255 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.