auto-editor-effects
An agent skill by WyattBlue, from WyattBlue/auto-editor. Tags: animation, audio, automation, cli, video.
What it does
Apply actions and animations to sections of a video/audio with auto-editor — change speed, duck or fade volume, de-ess, zoom/Ken Burns, rotate/spin, draw boxes, overlay logos or picture-in-picture, and animate any of these with ramps and easing. Use when someone wants creative effects or per-section behavior rather than plain silence-cutting.
Install
With the skills CLI, which installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents:
npx skills add WyattBlue/auto-editor --skill auto-editor-effectsOr copy the skill folder into Claude Code's skills directory by hand (~/.claude/skills for every project, or .claude/skills inside one):
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/WyattBlue/auto-editor
cp -r auto-editor/skills/auto-editor-effects ~/.claude/skills/auto-editor-effectsSafety box score
Grade A, minimal risk: 7 of 100 risk points, rated 2026-10-19. The grade rates what the skill and its scripts can reach on the machine of whoever installs it, across eight categories from shell execution to secrets access. How the score works.
This skill is a plain usage guide for the `auto-editor` CLI to apply effects to local audio/video. The main exposure is command execution against media files in the working area; there are no bundled scripts, secrets handling, or privilege changes.
| Category | Level | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Code & shell execution | 1 (low) | It directs the agent to run shell commands such as `auto-editor video.mp4 -w:0 speed:8` and `--set-action`, but ships no native scripts or code-eval machinery. |
| Network access | 0 (none) | No download/upload or remote API flow is instructed; the only remote reference is a documentation link to `https://auto-editor.com/ref/actions.md`. |
| Filesystem reach | 1 (low) | The examples operate on local media files like `video.mp4`, `podcast.mp3`, and `./logo.png`, so it reads and writes project media but nothing outside the workspace is indicated. |
| Secrets & credentials | 0 (none) | The skill does not mention tokens, passwords, dotfiles, browser sessions, keychains, or other secret stores. |
| Privilege & persistence | 0 (none) | There is no `sudo`, global install, service registration, shell startup editing, or OS configuration change. |
| Instruction hijack surface | 0 (none) | The file contains no prompt-injection text, hidden instructions, or requests to ignore higher-level rules. |
| Irreversible actions | 0 (none) | It only transforms media locally; it does not publish, send messages, deploy, pay, or delete external resources. |
| Transparency | 0 (none) | All supplied content is readable Markdown; there are no binaries, installers, or decoded-at-runtime payloads. |
Before installing
- Try the commands on a copy of a small test clip, not your originals.
- Confirm `auto-editor` is already installed from a trusted source before using this skill.
- Check whether your intended commands will overwrite output files or create new ones in the current directory.
- If you plan to use `:mic`, verify you are comfortable capturing from the microphone until Ctrl-C.
Rated 2026-10-19 by an automated review of 1 file from the skill's repository.
Source
- Repository
- WyattBlue/auto-editor (all skills from this repository)
- Path
- skills/auto-editor-effects/SKILL.md
- Branch
- master
- Updated
- 2026-09-23
Related skills
- auto-editor — Record a microphone or edit video/audio with the auto-editor CLI — cut out dead space (silence, motionlessness, black frames), set the pace, make manual cuts.
- auto-editor-export — Export auto-editor's edit or microphone recording to a video editor (Premiere, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, ShotCut, Kdenlive), to individual clips.
- auto-editor-transcribe — Transcribe a media file or live microphone to text or subtitles with auto-editor's whisper subcommand.
- game-developer — Use when building game systems, implementing Unity/Unreal Engine features, or optimizing game performance.
- music-to-video — Turn a music track (an audio file, a video to pull audio from, or a track generated from a mood brief) into a beat-synced video — lyric video, slideshow.
- oversized-cursor — House-style oversized macOS cursor technique for HyperFrames launch videos.