Archive To Shorts

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name: taffy-archive-to-shorts
tagline: "The clips your audience already told you they loved — pulled from videos you've already published. Ranked short-form clips, long-form clips, an intro hook scorecard, and a copy-paste clipper brief so you (or a clipper) can ship them this week."
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", "clipper brief for [video]".
  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 for a channel-wide unclipped-goldmine scan across many videos (use taffy-back-catalog-goldmine). Do NOT activate for Q&A/AMA videos where every question should become its own clip (use taffy-qa-clip-engine). 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, a quick-wins shortlist, and an optional copy-paste clipper brief a human clipper can execute without watching the full video. Calls Taffy MCP server's creator_archive_clips tool.
argument-hint: "<video_id> | <YouTube URL>"
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# 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.

The wedge: you are not guessing what's clip-worthy. The MCP tool weights moments the audience already reacted to in the comments. Lead the brief with that — "your viewers already pointed at these" beats "an AI thinks these are good." Most podcasters clip on gut feel and miss the moments their own audience quoted; this skill closes that gap.

## 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

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