BaoCut agent skill

Give your AI coding agent the power to drive BaoCut — transcribe, add and translate subtitles, review speakers, edit timelines and overlays, and export — all from natural language. This is the open-source Agent Skill for BaoCut's local bcut CLI and browser-based Subtitle Studio.

Works with Claude Code, Codex, and any skills.sh-compatible agent.

Requirements

• macOS — install BaoCut from baocut.app. The skill uses the CLI bundled in BaoCut.app; on Apple silicon it can also download the signed standalone CLI pinned to the skill release.
• Windows x64 — the resolver installs a verified unsigned-preview CLI when no compatible override, PATH entry, or cache exists. It uses nvidia-smi to select the bundled CUDA 13 build for an NVIDIA GPU with compute capability 8.0+ and driver 580+, otherwise it selects the CPU build. No CUDA Toolkit is required.
• Node.js — only for the one-command install below (download). The manual steps need no Node.

Install

Recommended — skills.sh

npx skills add JimLiu/baocut -g -a claude-code codex -y

This installs the skill globally to ~/.agents/skills/baocut and links it for Claude Code and Codex.

Manual (no Node.js)

git clone https://github.com/JimLiu/baocut.git ~/.agents/skills/baocut-src
ln -sfn ~/.agents/skills/baocut-src/skills/baocut ~/.agents/skills/baocut
# link it for each agent you use, e.g. Claude Code:
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
ln -sfn ~/.agents/skills/baocut ~/.claude/skills/baocut

Use it

Once installed, just ask your agent — for example:

• Claude Code — "Transcribe and translate the subtitles of talk.mp4 to Chinese," or the Chinese equivalent 转写并翻译字幕. You can also type /baocut.
• Codex — reference the baocut skill in your prompt; it drives the baocut CLI.

Under the hood the agent uses the bundled resolver to run commands like:

skills/baocut/bin/baocut --json auto talk.mp4 --lang zh
skills/baocut/bin/baocut export <projectId> --srt --translated --lang zh

The resolver honors an explicit CLI path, development builds, the CLI inside BaoCut.app, bcut on PATH, and verified release caches/downloads in that order.

Layout

skills/baocut/
  SKILL.md          # agent entry point (router)
  references/       # per-task guides (orchestration, editing, export, …)
  templates/        # browser-based Subtitle Studio
  cli-release.json  # immutable standalone CLI pin
  bin/baocut        # resolves, verifies, and runs the matching CLI
  bin/baocut.ps1    # native Windows resolver
  bin/detect-windows-cli-variant.ps1 # CPU/CUDA environment probe

Links

• App & docs — baocut.app
• skills.sh — skills.sh

License

MIT.