OpenMontage Podcast Repurpose — workflow skill for AI editing agents

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 how-to page 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 how-to page.

Turns podcast audio or video into audiogram or caption-led clips, quote cards and an optional full-episode companion vid

• Type: Workflow · AI editing agents
• Slug: openmontage-podcast-repurpose
• Status: live
• Publisher: Calesthio (community)
• License: AGPL-3.0
• Source: https://github.com/calesthio/OpenMontage/tree/main/skills/pipelines/podcast-repurpose/
• Works in: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenClaw
• Requires: Python 3.10+, ffmpeg, Node.js 18+, an AI coding assistant
• Cost: Free/open source; generation billed by providers you connect

What it does

Turns podcast audio or video into audiogram or caption-led clips, quote cards and an optional full-episode companion video, preserving the original audio. One of OpenMontage's 12 production pipelines: a YAML manifest (pipeline_defs/podcast-repurpose.yaml) plus per-stage director skills in skills/pipelines/podcast-repurpose/ that the agent reads before it calls the repo's Python tools (ffmpeg, WhisperX, scene detection, face-tracked reframe, Remotion or HyperFrames rendering). It checkpoints state, stops for approval at creative gates and self-reviews the render with ffprobe, frame samples and audio levels. Open the OpenMontage folder in your agent and ask for this kind of edit; the agent routes to the pipeline.

Use when

• Asked for a podcast repurpose edit of footage you already have
• Want a staged pipeline with approval gates instead of one prompt

Not for

• A single drop-in skill (it runs inside the OpenMontage repo)

Install

• Claude Code: git clone https://github.com/calesthio/OpenMontage.git && cd OpenMontage && make setup

More AI editing agents skills

• OpenMontage: Open-source agentic video studio: 12 pipelines (8 edit your footage), 100+ tools, ~140 skills. Run your agent in it.
• video-use: Drop raw takes in a folder, chat with your agent, get final.mp4: transcript-first cuts, grade, subtitles, overlays.
• FireRed-OpenStoryline: Conversational editing agent: finds media, writes the storyline, beat-syncs music and refines the cut by chat.
• ButterCut: Claude Code builds selects, scenes and rough cuts from your footage library and exports XML for FCP, Premiere, Resolve.
• Agentic Video Editor (ave): CLI where Gemini agents pick shots, trim, render with FFmpeg and score the result until a brief is met.
• OpenChatCut: Local-first chat video editor with a multi-track timeline that Codex and Claude Code can edit over MCP.

Run the generation on varg

varg is one API key for the models these skills drive — Seedance 2.5, Kling 4, Veo 3.1, Wan 3, Nano Banana 2.1, GPT Image 2.5, ElevenLabs v4 and 200+ more — billed in credits, with a cost estimate before anything runs.

• Claude Code: claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg (skill + hosted MCP)
• Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw: npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai -a <agent> -y
• Grok and any agent that reads SKILL.md: npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai, or point it at the skill's SKILL.md
• Claude.ai, ChatGPT, any MCP client: connect https://mcp.varg.ai/mcp
• API key: https://varg.ai/dashboard/api · Model specs: https://varg.ai/models/llms.txt