Short-Form Cut Finder

Mine a whole transcript for the short-form cuts hiding inside it. Read a long source, return a ranked shortlist of cuts, each one a verbatim hook joined to a tight payoff, re-sequenced so the sharpest line opens, and each one able to stand alone as a Short, Reel or TikTok.

This is the shared selection brain. It decides WHAT to cut. short-form-clipping renders the chosen cuts into 9:16 MP4s. youtube-short-packager builds the YouTube assets. Platform-agnostic on selection; the channel-playbook holds the per-channel scoring.

Core principle: a great cut is a strong VERBATIM hook plus a tight payoff, ordered for the feed, not the timeline. Move the hook and re-sequence freely, but every word stays Marty's, and the cut has to make sense on its own.

Two-part design:

• This file is the stable process.
• The brain is ../youtube-short-packager/channel-playbook.md — what's working, the scored rules, the engines, the make-more / make-less list. It is the SAME playbook the packager reads and the team updates weekly, so every new learning sharpens this skill too. Read it before you cut (Step 0).

First-use setup (BLOCKING)

Before anything else, check that ~/.claude/video-editing-suite/config/video-config.md exists.