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Eleven free Claude skills that do the writing for your videos and reels: the script and hooks in your own voice, the cover words, a list of cuts from your transcript, comment replies and a weekly plan. For reels, TikTok and longer videos.
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Claude Video Skills
A free pack of eleven Claude skills by Jake Schincariol (MIT licence), for anyone who makes videos. You type one line, like /yt-script, and Claude does that job for your video. Six of the skills come with a small checker for your hook, your title or your transcript, so it is more than a prompt. It writes and checks. You still film, edit and post.
What you need. A paid Claude plan (Pro or higher) and Claude Code on a Mac or PC. Python 3, which most Macs have or offer to install the first time.
Install Jake Schincariol's free Claude video skills (github.com/Jakeschincariol/youtube-agent-skill, MIT) in Claude Code on this computer. 1. Download it from that GitHub address only, then copy every folder in its skills folder that starts with yt- into my Claude skills folder (~/.claude/skills). 2. Check that python3 works on this computer. The six checkers need it and nothing else. If it is missing, tell me how to install it and stop. 3. Copy templates/voice.md to ~/.claude/youtube/voice.md. Then ask me for three of my own videos or reels (links, transcripts or files) and fill in my voice file from how I really talk. 4. Test it: run /yt-script on this idea: (your next video idea). Show me the two hooks you like best and the start of the script. 5. Tell me which eleven commands I now have, one line each. Do not connect Instagram, TikTok, YouTube or any other account, and do not post anything.
What Claude Video Skills does, and what it does not
It does not
- Edit your video. It gives you a list of cuts, you make them
- Post anything. You copy the words and upload yourself
- Promise views. The hook score is a rough check, not a prediction
- Make thumbnails. It writes the cover words and a short brief
- Work on the free Claude plan
It does
- Write five hook options for your video, in your own voice
- Write the full script, with what should be on screen at each beat
- Check a title and its cover text together, so they do not say the same thing twice
- Turn a transcript into a list of cuts: long pauses, "um" lines and back-to-back restarts, with timecodes
- Sort your comments and draft short replies in your voice
- Plan your week of videos around the hours you really have
✦ Set it up
Set it up in 5 steps
Claude writes the words for your videos. You film and post.
Who it's for
Business owners and coaches who make their own videos or reels and want Claude to do the writing and checking around them.
What you need
- A paid Claude plan, Pro or higher. Claude Code is included.
- Claude Code on a Mac or a PC.
- Python 3 for the six checkers. Nothing else to install.
- Three of your own videos or reels, to build your voice file.
The steps by hand
- You need a paid Claude plan (Pro or higher) and Claude Code, the version of Claude that can save files on your computer.
- Open Claude Code and paste the setup prompt from this page. It copies the eleven skills into your Claude skills folder.
- Make your voice file: give Claude three of your own videos or reels (transcripts work) and say "write my voice.md from these". Every skill reads it.
- Try it on your next video: type /yt-script and your idea. You get five hook options, then the script.
- Before you post, type /yt-package for the title and cover text, and /yt-comment when the comments come in.
Three things to try first
/yt-script (your idea for your next video or reel). I film it myself, talking to camera, about 60 seconds. /yt-package Give me ten titles and the cover text for this video: (one line about it). Keep the cover to three words. /yt-comment Here are the comments on my last video. Sort them, write the replies in my voice, and tell me which one to pin: (paste the comments)
How I'd use it
- Start with /yt-script. Give it your idea and it writes five hook options, then the full script with what is on screen at each beat.
- For reels, the cover rule is the one to keep: the cover should say what the caption does not, in three words or fewer.
- Paste your comments into /yt-comment. It sorts them into questions, corrections, praise and bait, and tells you which one to pin.
Honest limits, costs and licence
- The skills are free, but Claude Code needs a paid Claude plan (Pro or higher).
- The hook, script, cover-text, cut-list and comment skills work for any video, reels included. The title length check (60 and 40 characters) and the chapters, search and retention skills are only for long videos on YouTube; skip them for reels.
- The hook score is a rough check, and the maker says so himself. We ran it on 20 of our own past reel hooks and it did not match which reels did well: "Still paying for CapCut?", the one that got the most comments, scored second lowest. Use it to spot a vague line, not to pick the winner.
- The cut list needs a transcript with timings. Claude can make one for you, or use the captions from an unlisted YouTube upload. It catches long pauses and a line restarted straight away. On our test clip it missed a line said again ten seconds later, so check the list by eye.
- Your voice file matters most. Without it the scripts sound generic.
- Free and open source under the MIT licence, by Jake Schincariol.
Links
Why I share it
I don't make Claude Video Skills and nobody pays me to share it. It's a free tool I think is worth ten minutes of your time. Try it this week and tell me what you used it for first.
✦ Get unstuck
Stuck? Find your line.
Claude does not know /yt-script
Quit and reopen Claude Code so it loads the new skills. Then ask "which skills do you have that start with yt-?". If none show up, paste the setup prompt again.
It says python3 is not found
On a Mac, type python3 in Terminal and click Install when your Mac offers Apple's free developer tools. On a PC, install Python 3 from python.org. Then try again.
The scripts do not sound like me
Your voice file is missing or thin. Give Claude three of your own videos or reels and say "rewrite my voice.md from these".
Where do I get a transcript for the cut list?
Ask Claude Code to make one from your video file, or upload the video to YouTube as unlisted and download its captions. The cut list needs the timings.
I make reels and short videos
Use /yt-script, /yt-package for the cover words, /yt-edit and /yt-comment. Skip the chapters, search and retention skills, those are for long videos.
Is there a catch?
The skills are free and open source (MIT), made by Jake Schincariol. I am not affiliated with him. They need a paid Claude plan, so the skills are free but Claude is not. I read every line of the six checkers: they only read the file you give them and print a result. They do not go online, need no account and no API key, and nothing gets posted for you.
My screen looks different from the steps
Apps change their screens. Use the official links above, which the people who make Claude Video Skills keep up to date.
None of these fixed it
Email joe@mastermindshq.business. Say which step you were on and paste what you saw.
✦ What next · paid · optional
Want the next step? Let Claude do the edit too.
You came for the words: the hook, the title, the cut list. If you film on a Mac, the next step is letting Claude do the edit as well.
The free skills write your hooks and titles and give you a list of cuts. They never touch the video. My Video Agent does the edit: drop in your raw footage and it keeps your best take, cuts the restarts and adds captions, with your sound in sync.
- Made for reels and short videos you film yourself, and it exports for Instagram, TikTok or YouTube.
- Editing what you filmed costs nothing extra on an Apple Silicon Mac.
- Mac only, and it needs Claude Code, which comes with a paid Claude plan.
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