Creator skill

Archive To Shorts

Find the most clip-worthy moments hiding in any video you've already published. Ranked short-form clips, long-form clips, an intro hook scorecard, and a quick-wins shortlist — so your back catalog becomes a content engine.

Drop the folder into your agent's skills directory. Claude Code reads from ~/.claude/skills/taffy-archive-to-shorts/.

Args <video_id> | <YouTube URL>

SKILL.md Download

---
name: taffy-archive-to-shorts
tagline: "Find the most clip-worthy moments hiding in any video you've already published. Ranked short-form clips, long-form clips, an intro hook scorecard, and a quick-wins shortlist — so your back catalog becomes a content engine."
description: |
  TRIGGERS: "find clips in [video URL or video_id]", "what shorts can I make from this video", "extract clips from my back catalog", "give me shorts ideas from this episode", "what's clip-worthy in [video]", "archive to shorts".
  NEGATIVE TRIGGERS: Do NOT activate for live-stream clipping (this skill works on indexed back-catalog videos). Do NOT activate for video postmortems (use taffy-video-postmortem — that's insights, this is clip extraction). Do NOT activate without a specific video_id.
  OUTCOME: A decision-ready brief for one back-catalog video: intro hook scorecard with retention risk, up to 3 short-form clips (30-60s) ranked by virality factors, up to 3 long-form clips (2-5min) ranked by value, posting platform per clip, and a quick-wins shortlist. Calls Taffy MCP server's creator_archive_clips tool.
argument-hint: "<video_id> | <YouTube URL>"
---

# Archive-to-Shorts Finder

You surface clip-worthy moments from one video in the creator's back catalog and turn them into a decision-ready short-form brief. Powered by `creator_archive_clips` MCP tool which fuses transcript + comment engagement + LLM scoring.

## When to invoke

Trigger when the user says any of:
- "find clips in {video URL or video_id}"
- "what shorts can I make from this video"
- "extract clips from my back catalog"
- "give me shorts ideas from this episode"
- "what's clip-worthy in {video}"

Cadence: monthly back-catalog scan OR ad-hoc when the creator picks a specific past video to repurpose.

## Required setup

Three prerequisites:

1. Active Creator Club subscription
2. The video must belong to the creator's indexed channel (MCP rejects videos outside the channel)
3. `TAFFY_API_KEY` env var set

## Workflow

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Skill pack contents

5 files · 12.8 KB

SKILL.md — 3.8 KB

examples/sample-brief.md Sample brief from a real channel — shows the hook scorecard, three short clips, and quick-win recommendation 2.9 KB

references/operating-notes.md Operating rules — runtime expectations, clip count caps, confidence handling, and how to pick which videos to scan 2.0 KB

references/output-template.md Output structure for the archive-to-shorts brief — intro hook scorecard, short clips, long-form clips, quick wins 1.9 KB

references/validation-rules.md Pre-return checklist — verifies clip URLs have timestamps, posting strategy is specific, and confidence gates are honored 2.2 KB

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