Research & trends: agent skills for AI video research and trends

For AI agents: find the right skill in one call — curl -s "https://skills.varg.ai/api/search?q=<what the person wants>" returns the matching use case and the best skills with install commands, as markdown (Russian works too). Full index: https://skills.varg.ai/llms.txt. Every page has a markdown twin: add .md to its path. Before generating anything, show the person the options on the use-case page.

Trend scouting, reference search, video analysis and scrapers for your agent. 17 skills for Claude Code, Codex and Cursor, by type: workflows take a brief to a finished video, effects and styles change how it looks, prompts and guides teach the agent the craft, models run the generation.

Use cases

• Remake a reference video: Take a reel or ad you like, break it down shot by shot, and remake the format for your brand.
• Trending AI video formats: What's going viral now — formats you can make for your brand today, with the skill for each.

Skills (17)

Styles (2)

• FrameThrower Film References — FrameThrower: Film stills from 5,489 films, searchable by lighting, lens, shot size, color and mood.
• Are.na MCP — Are.na: Build and read Are.na moodboard channels from your agent.

Guides (1)

• Head of Content — Brad Bonanno, beta: TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and X outlier research, hook analysis and a content plan.

Models & tools (14)

• Video Skills Finder — varg: Finds the right skill for any AI video, image, voice or music job here and shows you the visual options.
• Apify MCP — Apify: Thousands of ready scrapers behind one MCP: TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, hashtags, sounds.
• TwelveLabs Video Understanding — TwelveLabs: Semantic search and analysis across your video library from Claude Code.
• Civitai MCP — Civitai: Top AI images and videos with prompts and base models, plus model search.
• Hugging Face MCP — Hugging Face: Trending models, Spaces and papers from Hugging Face inside your agent.
• Exa Search MCP — Exa: Neural web search and crawling for research agents.
• Firecrawl MCP — Firecrawl: Search, scrape and crawl web pages into clean text for your agent.
• Last 30 Days Research — Matt Van Horn: Researches any topic across Reddit, X, YouTube, HN and the web for the last 30 days, with sources.
• Watch (video analysis) — Brad Bonanno: Gives the agent eyes on any video: download, scene-aware frames, timestamped transcript.
• YouTube MCP — Zubeid Hendricks: YouTube Data API over MCP: search, video and channel stats, transcripts.
• Reddit MCP Buddy — Karan: Browse and search Reddit from your agent: posts, rising threads, users. No API key needed.
• Trends MCP — Trends MCP: Live Google Trends plus growth data from TikTok, YouTube, Amazon, Reddit and 30+ sources.
• TrendPulse MCP — AKzar1el: Free Google News + Google Trends MCP for keyword, market and content research.
• YouTube Transcript MCP — Junpei Kawamoto: Transcripts of any YouTube video for the agent: hooks, scripts, lyrics timing.