chaiwithjai/davinci-resolve-claude-skills

This repository is a library of skills for Claude Code and Codex that teach an AI agent how to do real post-production work in DaVinci Resolve 20, the free professional video editing tool from Blackmagic Design. It is aimed at creators, developer-relations folks, educators, and anyone making company videos who wants the agent to help cut, color, clean audio, caption, and export footage instead of just writing about editing. The project ships eleven skills, each tied to a specific job. There are setup and project template skills for installing Resolve and creating reusable bins, timelines, and render presets. There are editing skills for cutting down a long screen recording, color grading webcam footage, cleaning podcast audio, building branded titles and lower thirds, and exporting the same edit for YouTube, LinkedIn, and short-form vertical platforms. The set also includes a troubleshooting skill, a Computer Use training skill, a social editor skill, and an autocutter that turns a folder of raw clips into briefs for an Instagram Reel and a YouTube cut. The core design idea is a two-layer reference model. Under docs/wiki/ there are summaries of the six free Blackmagic training PDFs for Resolve 20, totaling about 1,800 pages. The agent reads those wikis as fast working memory before answering. The PDFs themselves are treated as the ground truth, and each skill points at specific page ranges so the agent can reset its mental model by going back to the source if the user pushes back. The goal is that the agent summarizes what the PDFs say rather than inventing technique. Installation is a simple copy or symlink of the skills folder into the user's local Claude skills directory, either at the home directory level or scoped to a single repository. The skills are written so they auto-trigger when a user's request matches their description, with examples in the README such as asking how to make a webcam look better, how to stop music from drowning out a podcast host, or how to export the same cut for multiple platforms. Several skills include Python scripts that drive Resolve through its external scripting API, including an automatic silence cutter and a multi-platform render script. The README explains how to enable external scripting inside Resolve, the environment variables to set on macOS, and that Resolve must already be running so the scripts can attach to it.