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Subtitles and Captions skills for Claude Code and Codex

Skills that burn captions into video, add subtitles to talking-head clips, and fetch timed captions from YouTube.

Highest-scoring subtitle and caption skills in the October 22, 2026 snapshot: captions from ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills (87/100), capcut-edit from renezander030/capcut-cli (85/100) and youtube-transcript from michalparkola/tapestry-skills-for-claude-code (74/100). Scores come from the Suede Skill Check.

1 from official publishers. 3 bundle scripts. 2 connect to an outside service. Listed in Productivity and Knowledge Work (3), Video, Image, Audio and Creative (2), Writing and Editing (1).

All 6 subtitle and caption skills

SkillRepositoryWhat it does
capcut-edit 85/100 · Brenezander030/capcut-cliEdits CapCut and JianYing video projects, including subtitles, timing, speed, volume, templates, animations, and cutting long-form video into shorts.
captions 87/100 · BZeroPointRepo/youtube-skillsFetches timestamped caption data from any YouTube video, for reading, quoting, translating, accessibility, content review, or language learning.
subtitles 87/100 · BZeroPointRepo/youtube-skillsFetches timestamped subtitles from any YouTube video, for translating, reading along, following foreign-language content, language learning, or accessibility.
youtube-transcript 74/100 · Cmichalparkola/tapestry-skills-for-claude-codeDownloads YouTube video transcripts, captions, and subtitles when given a YouTube URL or a request to fetch or transcribe a video.
caption-burn 73/100 · Cgooseworks-ai/goose-skillsBurned-in captions for a finished vertical video, three kinds. transcribe.py gets word timings from the video's own audio through the GooseWorks…
embedded-captions 82/100 · Bheygen-com/hyperframesAdd captions or subtitles to an existing single-subject talking-head video without editing the footage. Use for plain verbatim captions, cinematic…

How to choose subtitle and caption skills

Burn-in skills transcribe the audio, then render captions in a chosen style, so they need a transcription key or a local Whisper.

YouTube caption skills fetch existing tracks and need no video processing.

CapCut users can edit subtitles directly in project files.

YouTube Tools 21Translation and Localization 11Short-Form Clips and Reels 7Video Editing 10

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