Cut dead air with your coding agent, not a timeline

What it does Open the repo in Codex or Claude Code and its skills turn the assistant into a video editor. You point it at a recording; it transcribes, proposes cuts for silences and mistakes, plans hooks and payoffs, and assembles motion graphics from a card library built on HyperFrames and GSAP. Cuts are proposed for review before anything renders, so you approve edits instead of dragging clips around. Three main workflows are covered: long-form editing, short-form (reels and Shorts), and motion showreels cut to a music’s beat grid.

The interesting bit The transcript is the timeline. Word-level timing is the shared source of truth, so silence cutting, mistake detection, caption timing, and retiming all read the same data instead of several tools guessing at each other. The showreel skill goes further, shipping Node tools that measure a music take’s beat grid and splice the cut onto it — the example reel is cut to a 129 BPM grid.

Key highlights

• 15 skills mirrored for both assistants — the same edit-video whether you’re in Codex or Claude Code — plus single-operation skills like cut-silences and video-storytelling
• 406 draft motion-graphics cards in two styles, with manifests, CSS tokens, and editable slots, plus two whole-scene templates
• Tooling for transcription, silence cutting, mistake detection, reviewed cut rendering, transcript retiming, EDL review, beat-sync validation, and preflight
• A synthetic starter composition and editing fixture that need no footage and no API key
• Transcription defaults to ElevenLabs Scribe, but Whisper (cloud or local) or an existing word-level transcript works too

Caveats

• The cards are draft assets — the README says to test them with your own text and footage, and templates may load GSAP and Google Fonts from public CDNs, so localize before shipping
• Nate’s own workflow leans on paid services (ElevenLabs, Kie.ai); bring your own keys and credits, or steer the agent toward Whisper
• Not hands-off: output is meant for human review, and the kit expects Node 22+, FFmpeg, and Chrome installed

Verdict If you already live in Codex or Claude Code and want the boring half of editing automated — silences, retiming, captions — this is a serious, well-documented kit. If you want a GUI editor or fully autonomous output, it’s not that.