reverse-engineer

90 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a media skill usually calls an AI service over the internet.

By kevinbadi/open-edits (GitHub) · media · 62 stars · scanned at commit 7fbd746

Reverse-engineer the editing style of any reference video (YouTube / Reels / TikTok URL or a local file) and turn it into the first iteration of a new editing skill. Measures pacing (cuts, shot lengths), motion, faces/layout, colour, loudness and speech pace, builds shot-by-shot contact sheets for the agent to study, then scaffolds `.claude/skills/<style>-edit/` with the measured numbers, a style bible and a starter engine, and proves it with a demo render. Use when Kevin says "/reverse-enginee…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Runs commands on your computer

The author does not mention this.

Found in 3 places.

skills/reverse-engineer/SKILL.md, line 17python3 "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/study.py" --url "<reference url>" --slug <style> \
skills/reverse-engineer/SKILL.md, line 60python3 "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/scaffold_skill.py" --study <study folder> \
skills/reverse-engineer/scripts/study.py, line 39r = subprocess.run(cmd, capture_output=True, text=True)

Connects to the internet

The author does not mention this. Expected for a media skill.

Found in 2 places.

skills/reverse-engineer/scripts/study.py, line 57def fetch(url: str, dst: str) -> None:
skills/reverse-engineer/scripts/study.py, line 368fetch(a.url, raw)

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'reverse-engineer' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'reverse-engineer' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named reverse-engineer already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/kevinbadi/open-edits' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '7fbd74651ea945711792b207e8a9f0a167f78132' -- 'skills/reverse-engineer' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/reverse-engineer' ~/.agents/skills/'reverse-engineer' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'reverse-engineer' ~/.claude/skills/'reverse-engineer' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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Score history

Date	Version	Score
2026-11-07	`7fbd746`	90