# Yt Edit

Turn a raw recording's transcript into an edit decision list - dead air, filler cues...

- Repository: https://github.com/Jakeschincariol/youtube-agent-skill (4152 stars)
- Category: Media
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-09-16
- Runs scripts: yes, review before use

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add Jakeschincariol/youtube-agent-skill --skill yt-edit -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add Jakeschincariol/youtube-agent-skill --skill yt-edit -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add Jakeschincariol/youtube-agent-skill --skill yt-edit -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add Jakeschincariol/youtube-agent-skill --skill yt-edit -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add Jakeschincariol/youtube-agent-skill`

## Description

Turn a raw recording's transcript into an edit decision list - dead air, filler cues and retakes, with timecodes. Use for "edit this", "cut the dead space", "tighten this video", "I rambled", or any request to shorten footage from a transcript.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# yt-edit

An edit decision list from a timestamped transcript. It prints the cuts. You apply them.

```bash
python3 deadair.py transcript.srt              # srt, vtt or whisper json
python3 deadair.py transcript.srt --floor 0.35 --json
```

No transcript yet? Ask for one, or produce one first - `whisper`, `faster-whisper`, or the caption
track YouTube generates on an unlisted upload all work. Do not guess at timings.

## What it finds

- **DEAD** - gaps longer than the floor, trimmed from the MIDDLE so both sides keep a breath.
  Cutting flush against speech is what makes a tightened take sound gasping.
- **FILLER** - cues that are nothing but "um", "so yeah", "basically".
- **REPEAT** - a sentence restarted. Compared against the last cue that was actually speech, not
  the literal previous cue, because most retakes have an "um" between the two attempts.

## What it will not do

It does not touch media. It has no opinion about your B-roll. A 40% cut on the report is a 40% cut
of SPEECH, and if the video has a long silent demo in it that number is wrong - check the report
against the footage before you trust the runtime at the bottom.

## The gate

Nothing here publishes. This skill writes and you publish. Every output ends in a block the user
copies, and the last line of every run is the question: **ship it, or change it?**