News Rough Cut

News Rough Cut is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by 0xsline in OpenChatCut.

935 stars124 forkson 0xsline/OpenChatCutAdded 2026/08/11+2% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/11

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Install News Rough Cut

Copy News Rough Cut into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/0xsline/OpenChatCut/tree/main/src/agent/skills/news-rough-cut ~/.claude/skills/news-rough-cut

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/0xsline/OpenChatCut.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: src/agent/skills/news-rough-cut/SKILL.md in 0xsline/OpenChatCut
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/news-rough-cut
Collection: One of 27 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What News Rough Cut does

Intelligently rough-cut news footage into a concise, logically coherent, and fast-paced short video. Use for raw news material like press conferences, interviews, or on-site footage to create factual news clips without added music or effects.

News Rough Cut is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. News Rough Cut comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, agentic-ai, ai-agent, ai-video-editor and capcut.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

News Rough Cut（新闻智能粗剪）

把新闻素材粗剪为一条内容完整、逻辑清晰、节奏紧凑的新闻短视频。忠实于原始素材，不加任何外部声音，保持客观、正式、紧凑、清晰的信息型新闻风格。

This is an OpenChatCut-native workflow. Use the current project's assets, transcript, word-level editing, timeline, and editing tools. Do not depend on external download or transcode pipelines.

工作流总览

完整分析素材（剪辑前必做）：识别素材中的新闻事件、核心话题、关键人物、重要结论及有效画面，再确定剪辑主线和成片时长。使用 read_project、transcribe_track、view_timeline_frames 逐段核对素材内容。
话题分析与时长确定：判断素材包含多少个话题，区分核心话题与次要内容。
内容组织：开头直接呈现最重要的新闻结果/核心结论/最新进展/关键现场画面，不铺垫。
剪辑执行：按保留/删除规则筛选，讲话按语义完整切割。
音频只保留原声：不新增任何 BGM/配音/旁白/音效/转场音效。
终检：逐段回放核对事实忠实、讲话语义完整、剪切点衔接自然。

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about News Rough Cut

What else does 0xsline publish alongside News Rough Cut?
News Rough Cut is one of 27 skills that DirSkills catalogs from 0xsline/OpenChatCut, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AI Cinematic Short Film, AI Image Generation and Asset Import. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way News Rough Cut does, and is maintained by 0xsline in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the 0xsline/OpenChatCut page.
How does News Rough Cut compare to other Automation skills?
News Rough Cut ranks #891 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of News Rough Cut against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.