Shiv|6月 16, 2026 23:42
Claude can mine your YouTube library for short-form clips.
Here's a prompt you can copy (bookmark for later):
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Hey Claude, please do the following
1. Download every video from your YouTube library into a folder using yt-dlp.
2. Then watch ALL of them using the /watch skill. Use parallel subagents to watch the videos. Make sure to also transcribe each video to understand it. I want you to extract the moments worth posting on short-form and come up with a clipping plan to make engaging, dynamic interesting shorts that convey a single strong idea. A common failure is that clips get cut off mid-word or mid-sentence. Make sure to avoid that.
3. Then cut the clips and stitch them together into short-form videos using ffmpeg. Watch and review the final videos to make sure there are no inconsistencies, incomplete clips, etc.
3. Then write an index file describing each clip — so next time you know what's in there and when to use each one. The index is important. It's what turns a pile of clips into something an agent can actually reuse.
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Watch skill linked below.
I'll share a skill for this entire workflow soon as well.
The skill captures a lot of the nuanced mistakes that Claude sometimes makes.(Shiv)
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