Openclip Skill

OpenClip Agent Skill

Video editing from your AI assistant. OpenClip turns long videos into short, captioned viral clips, and this skill teaches any SKILL.md-compatible agent (Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, OpenClaw, and friends) to drive it over MCP.

What your agent can do with it

• Turn a podcast, webinar, or any long video URL into ranked, captioned vertical clips
• Transcribe, trim, crop, resize, compress, convert, and mute videos (free tools, no subscription)
• Extract thumbnails, edit images, remove image backgrounds (also free)
• Generate short vertical UGC-style clips from a creative brief
• Pull time-coded transcripts and standardize output with reusable presets

Behind the skill is the OpenClip MCP server: 28 tools, one public URL, OAuth 2.1 sign-in, no API key. Listed in the official MCP Registry as app.openclip/openclip.

Install the skill

# skills.sh CLI (Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, OpenClaw, ...)
npx skills add Oak-Ridge-Ventures/openclip-skill

# or copy skills/openclip/ into your agent's skills directory, e.g.
#   ~/.claude/skills/openclip/

Or download the zip straight from the product: https://openclip.app/mcp/skill

Connect the MCP server (once)

The server URL is the same for everyone: https://openclip.app/mcp. Sign in with your OpenClip account when the OAuth prompt appears.

• Claude (web/Desktop): Settings, Connectors, "Add custom connector", paste the URL, sign in.
• Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http openclip https://openclip.app/mcp then /mcp.
• Cursor (~/.cursor/mcp.json or .cursor/mcp.json):

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "openclip": { "url": "https://openclip.app/mcp" }
    }
}

• ChatGPT: Settings, Apps & Connectors, Advanced, enable Developer mode, Create, paste the URL, choose OAuth (paid plans).
• Perplexity: Settings, Connectors, "+ Custom connector", Remote, paste the URL, OAuth (Pro and up).
• Header-only agents: mint a personal access token in OpenClip and use https://openclip.app/mcp/key with an Authorization: Bearer header.

Docs

• MCP hub and per-client setup: https://openclip.app/mcp
• Machine-readable overview (tool reference, troubleshooting): https://openclip.app/mcp.md
• Full site map for agents: https://openclip.app/llms.txt

License

The skill files in this repository are MIT licensed. OpenClip itself is a commercial product; processing requires an OpenClip account (free media utilities work without a subscription).

Source & license

This open-source MCP server is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: Oak-Ridge-Ventures
• Source: Oak-Ridge-Ventures/openclip-skill
• License: MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.