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Video Clipping by richawo — Agent Skill

Name: Video Clipping
Author: richawo

Video Clipping

Remove dead air and long pauses from a local video with Yaps Auto Cut, review or tune the cut plan, and export a separate tightened MP4. Do not use for selecting semantic highlights, rearranging scenes, or adding captions.

richawo 1f384b1 2.5 KB Updated Sep 17, 2026

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Yaps Auto Cut

Use the existing Yaps MCP Auto Cut tools. Do not invent CLI commands, replace the workflow with an ad-hoc editor, or upload the source to a hosted service. Requires Yaps 2.3.848 or newer and an active trial or Yaps Pro.

Verify the exact source with cut_verify. Stop on an unusable source, missing audio, or exceeded limits.
Inspect cut_presets when needed. Prefer natural for conversational pacing, tight for a punchy social cut, and relaxed for light trimming. Call cut_create and retain its returned project ID.
Read cut_show, cut_plan, and cut_export_plan. Present source duration, kept duration, removed percentage, cut count, and the proposed output. If the user asked to review or tune first, wait for that review before rendering.
Adjust requested settings with cut_set. pause_budget_ms implies custom pacing and must not accompany a conflicting preset. Detection changes need cut_redetect when the response says requires_redetect: true; plan-only changes apply immediately.
Render with cut_render to a separate .mp4. Never target the source or preview proxy. Set overwrite: true only after approval to replace that exact output. Avoid concurrent renders for the same project.
Verify the output with cut_verify, then return its link and useful cut metrics. A saved project or plan alone is not a finished export.

Use cut_list and cut_show to resume work. Do not use cut_delete for cleanup; it requires the user's explicit request to delete the exact saved project and confirm: true.

Auto Cut trims pauses; it does not decide which ideas are highlights. Use auto-captions for captioned exports and video-to-audio for audio extraction.

Reachability

Call yaps_status when a tool reports a problem. If it returns local_yaps_unreachable, cli_missing, or equivalent, the current session cannot see the Yaps engine. Do not claim Yaps is uninstalled. Offer Download Yaps, ask the user to open Yaps, and retry from a local session on the same computer. If Auto Cut is disabled, use yaps_enable_feature with feature: auto-cut when enabling it is part of the requested workflow. It has no model download of its own; do not silently install other missing dependencies.

---name: video-clippingdescription: Remove dead air and long pauses from a local video with Yaps Auto Cut, review or tune the cut plan, and export a separate tightened MP4. Do not use for selecting semantic highlights, rearranging scenes, or adding captions.---# Yaps Auto CutUse the existing Yaps MCP Auto Cut tools. Do not invent CLI commands, replace the workflow with an ad-hoc editor, or upload the source to a hosted service. Requires Yaps 2.3.848 or newer and an active trial or Yaps Pro.1. Verify the exact source with `cut_verify`. Stop on an unusable source, missing audio, or exceeded limits.2. Inspect `cut_presets` when needed. Prefer `natural` for conversational pacing, `tight` for a punchy social cut, and `relaxed` for light trimming. Call `cut_create` and retain its returned project ID.3. Read `cut_show`, `cut_plan`, and `cut_export_plan`. Present source duration, kept duration, removed percentage, cut count, and the proposed output. If the user asked to review or tune first, wait for that review before rendering.4. Adjust requested settings with `cut_set`. `pause_budget_ms` implies custom pacing and must not accompany a conflicting preset. Detection changes need `cut_redetect` when the response says `requires_redetect: true`; plan-only changes apply immediately.5. Render with `cut_render` to a separate `.mp4`. Never target the source or preview proxy. Set `overwrite: true` only after approval to replace that exact output. Avoid concurrent renders for the same project.6. Verify the output with `cut_verify`, then return its link and useful cut metrics. A saved project or plan alone is not a finished export.Use `cut_list` and `cut_show` to resume work. Do not use `cut_delete` for cleanup; it requires the user's explicit request to delete the exact saved project and `confirm: true`.Auto Cut trims pauses; it does not decide which ideas are highlights. Use auto-captions for captioned exports and video-to-audio for audio extraction.## ReachabilityCall `yaps_status` when a tool reports a problem. If it returns `local_yaps_unreachable`, `cli_missing`, or equivalent, the current session cannot see the Yaps engine. Do not claim Yaps is uninstalled. Offer [Download Yaps](https://yaps.ai/download), ask the user to open Yaps, and retry from a local session on the same computer. If Auto Cut is disabled, use `yaps_enable_feature` with `feature: auto-cut` when enabling it is part of the requested workflow. It has no model download of its own; do not silently install other missing dependencies.

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