Agent skill

Short Form Edit

by nateherkai in nateherkai/hyperframes-student-kit

Turn talking-head footage into a finished reel, YouTube Short, or short advertisement with curiosity-led openings, earned payoffs, story-driven cuts, transcript-synced motion graphics, moving…

Custom licenceAuto-check passedMedia & Creative

Install Short Form Edit

skills CLI
$ npx skills add nateherkai/hyperframes-student-kit --skill short-form-edit -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install nateherkai/hyperframes-student-kit short-form-edit --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nateherkai/hyperframes-student-kit.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/short-form-edit .claude/skills/short-form-edit && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
short-form-edit
GitHub stars
1.3k
Token cost
~5.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
2,998 words
Files
8 (incl. scripts, references)
Skills in repo
11
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Turn talking-head footage into a finished reel, YouTube Short, or short advertisement with curiosity-led openings, earned payoffs, story-driven cuts, transcript-synced motion graphics, moving…

  • Works in 5 steps: Read the scoped workspace guide,… → Probe the supplied source and reference:… → When a reference is supplied, inspect… → …
  • Short-form editing
  • SKILL.md covers Priority, Establish the edit, Design the emotional journey and Generate and assemble, plus 2 more sections
  • Runs JavaScript scripts from its folder; calls node

What it does

Short Form Edit is an agent skill from nateherkai/hyperframes-student-kit. Turn talking-head footage into a finished reel, YouTube Short, or short advertisement with curiosity-led openings, earned payoffs, story-driven cuts, transcript-synced motion graphics, moving B-roll, captions, subtle music, and synchronized sound effects. Use for short-form editing; use edit-video for long-form videos and cut-silences for pause removal alone.

Its SKILL.md is about 5.3k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 9 other files, including scripts and reference files (for example `references/curiosity-and-entertainment.md`, `references/plan-schema.md` and `references/premium-motion-and-footage.md`).

It sits in Media & Creative, covering Motion graphics, Video production and Video scripts and shorts. It works with HeyGen. The repository describes itself as: Edit videos, reels, and YouTube Shorts with Codex or Claude Code. 14 skills, transcript-driven cuts, storytelling, 406 motion-graphics cards, and HyperFrames templates.

When your agent uses it

  • Short-form editing
  • Use edit-video for long-form videos and cut-silences for pause removal alone

Example prompts

  • “/short-form-edit”

Requirements

  • Node.js

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Read the scoped workspace guide, MOTION_PHILOSOPHY.md, and the HyperFrames
  2. Probe the supplied source and reference: duration, dimensions, frame rate,
  3. When a reference is supplied, inspect the entire reel using contact sheets,
  4. Before locking the concept, inspect the supplied footage, brand assets, and
  5. Read every spoken line. Run silence and mistake tools, then manually review

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 0d30152. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Ships 2 files in scripts/ (JavaScript), which the agent can run.

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • node

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Short Form Edit loads about 5.3k tokens when it runs, and up to ~10k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 94 tokens; SKILL.md has 2,998 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~94
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~5.3k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~10k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 2,998 words (~5,290 tokens).

“Input: a source-video path and an optional reference-reel path.”

— opening of SKILL.md by nateherkai, Custom licence
name
short-form-edit

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 7 other files (scripts, references) in .agents/skills/short-form-edit of nateherkai/hyperframes-student-kit.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/curiosity-and-entertainment.md
  • references/plan-schema.md
  • references/premium-motion-and-footage.md
  • references/quality-gates.md
  • references/reference-analysis.md
  • scripts/validate-footage.mjs
  • scripts/validate-plan.mjs

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 0d30152

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Music to Videoheygen-com/hyperframes60k3 repos~4.7kAutomated safety check: NotesApache-2.0

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Questions about Short Form Edit

What does Short Form Edit do?

Turn talking-head footage into a finished reel, YouTube Short, or short advertisement with curiosity-led openings, earned payoffs, story-driven cuts, transcript-synced motion graphics, moving…. Short Form Edit is an agent skill from nateherkai/hyperframes-student-kit. Turn talking-head footage into a finished reel, YouTube Short, or short advertisement with curiosity-led openings, earned payoffs, story-driven cuts, transcript-synced motion graphics, moving B-roll, captions, subtle music, and synchronized sound effects.

When should I use Short Form Edit?

Short Form Edit fits situations like: short-form editing; use edit-video for long-form videos and cut-silences for pause removal alone.

How do I install Short Form Edit in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add nateherkai/hyperframes-student-kit --skill short-form-edit -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/short-form-edit in nateherkai/hyperframes-student-kit) into .claude/skills/short-form-edit in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Short Form Edit in Codex?

Run `npx skills add nateherkai/hyperframes-student-kit --skill short-form-edit -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/short-form-edit in nateherkai/hyperframes-student-kit) into .agents/skills/short-form-edit in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Short Form Edit in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add nateherkai/hyperframes-student-kit --skill short-form-edit -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/short-form-edit, .gemini/skills/short-form-edit, .github/skills/short-form-edit and .opencode/skills/short-form-edit in your project.

What does Short Form Edit need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Short Form Edit needs JavaScript for the scripts in its folder and the command-line tools its instructions call (node). Our summary lists: Node.js.

Does Short Form Edit access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Short Form Edit safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.

What licence does Short Form Edit use?

Short Form Edit has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Short Form Edit use?

About 5.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 21k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 4.7k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Short Form Edit?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Short Form Edit: Showtime (FavioVazquez/showtime, 220 stars), Noti Tiktok Full Text (notivn/AIEV, 127 stars), Noti Tiktok Vn (notivn/AIEV, 127 stars) and Faceless Explainer Video (heygen-com/hyperframes, 60k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Short Form Edit?

nateherkai (a GitHub user) maintains it in nateherkai/hyperframes-student-kit, which has 1,270 GitHub stars. The repository holds 11 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 28, 2026.

Source: nateherkai/hyperframes-student-kit on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.