Ghost Editor

AI video editor for talking-head reels. Turns a raw phone recording of someone talking to camera (retakes, pauses, false starts) into a finished vertical 1080x1920 reel for Instagram, TikTok or Shorts: the best take of each sentence, pause trimming, word-timed captions that never cover the face, motion scenes on the spoken word, sound effects mixed against the voice and checked B-roll. Use when the user hands over a talking-head video and says "edit this", "make a reel", "make it look like this video", "add captions/sound effects", "pick the best takes", "remove the pauses", asks for a re-cut,

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Install

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more)

npx skills add kurbaitaev/ghost-editor --skill ghost-editor

Manual install

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kurbaitaev/ghost-editor.git /tmp/ghost-editor
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/ghost-editor/. ~/.claude/skills/ghost-editor

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From the SKILL.md

# ghost-editor

One recording in, one reel out. The creative work is choosing takes and
planning beats. The scripts do everything else the same way every time: cut
math, zoom tweens, captions, SFX levels, asset copying, QA. Nothing on
screen says anything the speaker did not say. A meme is a reaction, so it
lands ON or just AFTER the punchline, never before it.

Skill dir: `~/.claude/skills/ghost-editor` (below: `$S`). A reel project is any
directory (`$P`); `build.mjs` copies what it needs into `$P/assets` so the
project renders on its own.

## Cost: one fresh helper per reel, the right model per step
Measured on a batch of 21 reels: looking at frames was ~5 % of the Claude usage. The cost is context re-read on every
turn (one helper that built 3 reels in a row re-read 212 M cached tokens over 464 turns) and new generator code written
per reel (two helpers per style each wrote their own lib). Numbers: docs/PLAYBOOK.md "Cost".
- **One reel = one FRESH helper** (Agent tool). Never one helper for several reels or a wave. The session that talks to
  the user orchestrates: fill `templates/briefs/build-one-reel.txt` (build -> preview -> stop), send them the preview,
  and on their OK fill `templates/briefs/finish-one-reel.txt` for a new helper. Changes after their notes go to a fresh
  helper with the reel's `reel.py` and their words (the generator is the state, not the old transcript); SendMessage the

Read the full skill on GitHub

Details

Skill name: ghost-editor
Repository: kurbaitaev/ghost-editor
License: MIT
Repo updated: 30 October 2026

FAQ

What does the Ghost Editor skill do?

How do I install the Ghost Editor skill?

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add kurbaitaev/ghost-editor --skill ghost-editor. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.

Is Ghost Editor popular?

It lives in kurbaitaev/ghost-editor, which has 118 GitHub stars and 20 forks.

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