Highlight Cutter

Overview

Orchestrates downloading chunks and merging them using filter_complex concat, avoiding frame-freezes and AV desync.

When to Use

• When a highlight_plan_<id>.json is ready and the user wants to generate the video.

AI Instructions

• Find [SKILL_ROOT]: Look at the <skill location="..."> XML tag at the top of your prompt. Strip the filename SKILL.md (or with backslashes \ on Windows). Replace all \ with /. The result is [SKILL_ROOT].

1. Find cut_highlight.py in the skill's scripts directory: [SKILL_ROOT]/scripts/cut_highlight.py.
2. Run it, providing the JSON plan and the source URL/file: python3 "[SKILL_ROOT]/scripts/cut_highlight.py" path/to/highlight_plan_abc123.json --source <URL>
3. Monitor stderr for progress. The final output path will be printed on stdout.
4. Proceed to highlight-verifier when finished.

Iron Rule: Token Budget Policy

🚫 The AI MUST NEVER read the plan JSON file with view_file, read_file, or any file-reading tool at any stage.