What are the best Claude Code skills for video?
youtube-api from ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills is the highest-scoring Claude Code skill for video, at 90/100 (grade A) on the Suede Skill Check. The table below compares the top 15 of 89 listed video skills from 11 repositories by score, publisher and license, using the October 22, 2026 snapshot of SuedeAI.directory.
- 89 listed video skills
- 18 full pages scoring 80+
- 21 repositories
Compare 15 Claude Code skills for video
Ranked by Suede Skill Check score. Linked names open the directory listing; scores come from the published rubric.
| Skill | Publisher | Suede Skill Check | License | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| youtube-api | ZeroPointRepo ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills | 90/100 · A | MIT | Retrieves YouTube data without Google API quotas or OAuth setup, including transcripts, video metadata, channel info, search results, and playlists. |
| youtube-channels | ZeroPointRepo ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills | 90/100 · A | MIT | Browses a YouTube channel from a handle or URL, listing recent uploads, searching within the channel, and resolving a handle to a channel ID. |
| youtube-data | ZeroPointRepo ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills | 90/100 · A | MIT | Retrieves structured YouTube data without Google API quotas or OAuth, including transcripts, video metadata, channel upload history, search results, and playlist contents. |
| render-proof-points-overlay | gooseworks-ai gooseworks-ai/goose-skills | 89/100 · B | MIT | Builds proof-point pill overlays for a perfect-score UGC video ad and composites them onto a base clip, then adds the music bed. |
| video | coreyhaines31 coreyhaines31/marketingskills | 88/100 · B | MIT | When the user wants to create, generate, or produce video content using AI tools or programmatic frameworks. Also use when the user mentions 'video… |
| video-remove-background | Bria-AI Bria-AI/bria-skill | 86/100 · B | MIT | Removes backgrounds from videos to produce transparent videos and alpha-channel clips without green-screen footage, using Bria's video editing pipeline. |
| render-hook-replacement | gooseworks-ai gooseworks-ai/goose-skills | 86/100 · B | MIT | Replaces a video's opening with a supplied clip or text hook while keeping and verifying the original body, audio, captions and ending. |
| render-mosaic-grid-reveal | gooseworks-ai gooseworks-ai/goose-skills | 86/100 · B | MIT | Render a 'mosaic-grid-reveal' video from a config — a real-DOM FULL-BLEED N×N mosaic of real product tiles that pops in one tile at a time (scatter… |
| vox-director | Alisa0808 Alisa0808/vox-director | 85/100 · B | MIT | Turns one topic into a Vox-style paper-collage explainer or ad video, automating script, motion, voice-over, music, and captions via Atlas Cloud and ffmpeg. |
| capcut-edit | renezander030 renezander030/capcut-cli | 85/100 · B | MIT | Edits CapCut and JianYing video projects, including subtitles, timing, speed, volume, templates, animations, and cutting long-form video into shorts. |
| video-router | Orkas-AI Orkas-AI/Orkas-VideoStudio | 83/100 · B | MIT | Classifies a video-production brief and locks the primary path, either generating AI footage, composing designed HTML, editing real footage, or AUTO end-to-end. |
| general-video | heygen-com Official heygen-com/hyperframes | 83/100 · B | Apache-2.0 | Author or edit a custom HyperFrames composition when no specialized workflow fits, or when BRIEF.md sets flow: companion. Use for longer or… |
| promo-director | bitwize-music-studio bitwize-music-studio/claude-ai-music-skills | 82/100 · B | CC0-1.0 | Generates 15-second vertical promo videos for social media from mastered audio. Use after mastering is complete and before release, when the user… |
| paidf-augmentation | NVIDIA Official NVIDIA/skills | 81/100 · B | Apache-2.0 | Use when authoring or validating PAIDF augmentation YAML configs, or running remote Cosmos Transfer (including Cosmos3 WSM controls), Cosmos… |
| claude-real-video-for-agents | HUANGCHIHHUNGLeo HUANGCHIHHUNGLeo/claude-real-video | 80/100 · B | MIT | Installs and uses the crv tool so an AI agent can watch videos by extracting deduplicated scene-aware keyframes and transcribing audio. |
Questions and answers
Which video skill has the highest Suede Skill Check score?
youtube-api from ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills scores 90/100, grade A, the highest of the 89 listed video skills in the October 22, 2026 snapshot. It earns full points for structural checks, curated-list citations and instruction depth. youtube-channels from ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills follows at 90/100.
How do I install a video skill in Claude Code?
Run npx skills add with the skill folder's GitHub URL from your project, or copy the folder into .claude/skills/ and Claude Code loads it when a request matches its description. For youtube-api, run: npx skills add https://github.com/ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills/tree/main/clawhub/youtube-api. Each full skill page on SuedeAI.directory lists the same steps for Claude Code and Codex.
Are these video skills free?
All 15 video skills on this page are published in public GitHub repositories and cost nothing to download. Every one uses an open-source or open-content license, led by MIT (12), Apache-2.0 (2) and CC0-1.0 (1), so you can use and adapt the files at no cost under those terms. 5 skills name credentials for an outside service; each full page lists them under Before you install.
Do these video skills work with Codex and Cursor?
Yes. Each of the 15 video skills on this page is a SKILL.md folder in the Agent Skills format, which Claude Code, Codex and Cursor all read. The skills CLI (npx skills add) installs every one of them into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents, and each full skill page adds a project-level copy into .claude/skills for Claude Code and .agents/skills for Codex. 3 of them declare compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
How does SuedeAI.directory rank video skills?
By Suede Skill Check score from 0 to 99, which adds structure, description quality, instruction depth, bundled files, maintenance and curated-list citations, all read from each skill's published files. A skill joins this page when its name or summary matches the video keyword map; each repository fills at most three rows, so the table compares publishers.
Which video skills come from official publishers?
general-video from heygen-com and paidf-augmentation from NVIDIA are published by the company behind the tool, marked Official in the table.
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