What do I need to use Clip Factory?

The transcript, with timestamps if available; Whose channel the clips serve; Platform targets and any hard rules; What the source is really about.

Is Clip Factory free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

Clip Factory

Q: How do I know the Clip Factory output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Every clip has a complete arc — hook, payoff, landing — verifiable from; the quoted timestamps; Hooks create a question; zero hooks are just the quote restated; The honesty gate ran and its log is present (even when empty: "nothing.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-10-06 ✅ 5/5 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-newgen

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.

▶ Run it free — no key needed 📝 Grade your existing draft ⬇ Add to Claude (works in Duet) 📱 Use as an app View SKILL.md ↗ What changed

🗣 Say this to your agent

“Clip this podcast.”“Make shorts from my video.”“What's clippable here?”

What to give it

▸The transcript, with timestamps if available — or the video/audio to transcribe if tooling allows; without timestamps, mark cuts by quote and say so

▸Whose channel the clips serve — (the creator's own? a clipping account with permission?) and the tone that channel runs

▸Platform targets and any hard rules — no swearing cuts, brand-safe, etc.

▸What the source is really about — the thesis the clips must not betray

✅ The bar it holds itself to

Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.

✓Every clip has a complete arc — hook, payoff, landing — verifiable from

✓the quoted timestamps

✓Hooks create a question; zero hooks are just the quote restated

✓The honesty gate ran and its log is present (even when empty: "nothing

✓cut")

✓Tags describe the content, not trending-tag spam

✓Cut points respect sentence boundaries — no clips ending mid-thought

✓unless the cliffhanger is the point and the payoff is in the caption

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not clip sarcasm, hypotheticals, or steelmanned opposing views as

sincere claims — that's the gate's kill list

Do not write rage-bait hooks the content can't cash

Do not produce 30 mediocre clips instead of 10 good ones — the sheet is

ranked and short because editor time is the scarce resource

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y -p pm-claude-skills pm-claude-skills-mcp

Related skills

🔌 Embed this skill

Drop this on your blog, docs, or site — it renders a "Run this skill" card:

<div data-pm-skill="clip-factory"></div>
<script src="https://mohitagw15856.github.io/pm-claude-skills/embed.js" async></script>

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