FavStash Creator Skills: find ideas, script, edit and publish short videos with Claude Code or Codex

Give your AI agent the whole short-form loop. These free, open-source skills
teach Claude Code, Codex or any skills-aware agent to find proven ideas, write
scroll-stopping scripts in your voice, edit Reels, TikToks and Shorts in four
finished styles, then publish and learn from the results.

Give this prompt to your agent:

Set up FavStash creator skills for my short-form workflow.
Clone https://github.com/alisadiq-ai/favstash-ai-video-editing-skills and follow:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alisadiq-ai/favstash-ai-video-editing-skills/main/INSTALL_FOR_AGENTS.md

Install all eight skills and the local media tools they need in my workspace.
Check whether FavStash is connected; if not, connect it with the FavStash CLI
(Codex or Claude Code) or guide me through sign-in. Verify the setup, then tell
me how to start my first reel.

The creator loop

flowchart LR
  R[1 · Research<br/>find-ideas] --> S[2 · Script<br/>write-script]
  S --> E[3 · Edit<br/>edit-video + a style]
  E --> P[4 · Publish & learn<br/>publish-and-analyze]
  P -->|results pick the next idea| R

Stage	Skill	What your agent does
1 · Research	find-ideas	Finds proven reels to adapt (3× their creator's median), reads saved inspiration and suggests what to make next
2 · Script	write-script	Copies the proven hook, adds as many equally aggressive alternatives as you want to test, writes one shared body in your voice and hands over a filmable brief
3 · Edit	edit-video	Cuts your takes, removes retakes, adds captions, sound and motion graphics, keeps everything in safe areas and reviews the actual export
4 · Publish & learn	publish-and-analyze	Exports at full quality, picks a real-frame cover, avoids duplicate holds on hook variants, schedules after your approval and compares results

Every skill works on its own. FavStash closes the loop:
your saved reels feed research, approved cuts go to Instagram, TikTok, YouTube or
LinkedIn, and the analytics pick the next test.

Editing styles

edit-video is the base for every edit. Add the style that fits the story; each one
lives in its own folder under skills/3-editing-styles/.

adaptive-glass: speaker plus moving proof in glass panels

Adaptive glass: glass panels with real proof above the speaker

For product, tool and explainer reels with real screen proof. Palettes are matched to your footage.

paper-grid: white grid pane, one animated UI artifact per line

Paper grid: white grid pane with animated UI cards above the speaker

For tool, repo and feature explainers where every sentence names something to show.

breakout-card: your head breaks out of a card at the bottom

Breakout card: grid page, dark cards and one-word captions, with the speaker's head breaking out of a bottom card

For talking-head explainers that alternate graphics with personal lines. One-to-two-word captions in Montserrat.

text-over-footage: one readable line over matching B-roll

Text over footage: one line of text over B-roll that matches the joke

For jokes, observations and setup/payoff reels, with footage matched to the line.

Free to use

The skills are free and open source (Apache-2.0). FavStash's free plan includes
unlimited saved items and stash searches, 100 transcript and AI enrichments, one
connected channel and 10 posts a month. See the current plans.

Install

Paste the prompt above into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or another local coding agent.
It follows INSTALL_FOR_AGENTS.md to install the skills,
prepare FFmpeg, HyperFrames and GSAP in your workspace, render a smoke test and
connect FavStash. You only sign in; the agent does the rest.

Install the skills yourself

npx skills add https://github.com/alisadiq-ai/favstash-ai-video-editing-skills

Add --skill edit-video --skill paper-grid (for example) to pick skills. The
agent setup guide covers media tools and the FavStash connection.

For Claude Code or Codex, the FavStash CLI connects your stash and uploads local files:

npm install -g @sketric/favstash-mcp@latest
favstash auth login
favstash setup --agent claude-code
favstash doctor

Use --agent codex for Codex. Other agents connect through FavStash's MCP server
with OAuth (connection guide).

Try it

Use $find-ideas to find three proven reels about AI coding tools I could adapt.

Use $write-script to adapt this reel into a few hooks to test and one body in my voice.

Use $edit-video with $breakout-card to edit these takes into a 40-second reel.

Use $publish-and-analyze to prepare covers and a caption for this cut, then compare
last week's hook test once I approve.

FAQ

Do I need FavStash? No. Research, scripting and editing work without it. FavStash
adds your saved inspiration, scheduling and analytics so the loop closes.

Will my agent post without asking? No. It delivers a local cut. Posting needs your
approval for the exact file, cover, caption, account and time.

What runs where? Editing runs locally with FFmpeg and HyperFrames (Node 22+).
paper-grid, breakout-card and the duplicate check also use Python. The
breakout card's built-in person matte uses Apple Vision on macOS; on other systems,
supply a matte from any segmentation tool.

Can I use a saved reel as a reference? Yes, for analysis. Adapt its hook,
structure and pacing, and make the video from your own footage. Downloaded footage
and music stay analysis-only unless you have reuse rights.

Contributing

npm test
npm run validate

See contributing and security. Code, instructions
and original SFX use Apache-2.0; external tools and the bundled Montserrat
font keep their own licenses. The style previews come from
the maintainer's own reels, with the speaker replaced by a placeholder.