YouTube Edit Kit

One source video in → a clean YouTube cut out: silence + disfluency cuts, burned corrected captions, SRT + chapters, and optional vertical shorts. Free and local — ffmpeg + faster-whisper, no API key.

Every gate below is MANDATORY, in order. Skipping a gate or a self-test is a failure, not a shortcut. Violating the letter of these rules is violating their spirit. Each rule exists because an agent already broke it in production.

Gates (run in order)

digraph gates {
    "G0 Setup check" -> "G1 Transcribe + read" -> "G2 Strategy confirm" -> "G3 Cut + render" -> "G4 Captions" -> "G5 Shorts (optional)" -> "G6 Self-review";
    "G0 Setup check" -> "STOP: give user references/SETUP.md installs, wait" [label="tool missing"];
    "G2 Strategy confirm" -> "WAIT for user OK" [label="no approval"];
}