ghost-editor
Three minutes of you stumbling through a script in.
A 30-second reel that looks paid-for out.
Open-source AI video editor for talking-head reels. A Claude Code skill that renders on your Mac.
green: in the repo today · orange: coming soon · purple: lab, tried on my own reels
Raw take in, reels out
FROM MY LAST BATCH: 21 reels in 3 h 40 min on one Mac mini · 2 of its own mistakes caught before delivery
Effects
I paid an editor once
Same raw recording. The human edit on the left, ghost-editor on the right.
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/312f6910-a8a0-4424-9dd4-612cd079a2e7
Install
Paste into Claude Code:
Install the ghost-editor skill: clone https://github.com/kurbaitaev/ghost-editor into ~/.claude/skills/ghost-editor and follow its docs/INSTALL.md.Then:
Edit ~/Downloads/my-video.mov into a reel in Clean OS.
Make my video look like this reel: ~/Downloads/reel-i-love.mp4
Styles you can ask for today
| ask | you get |
|---|---|
edit this in Clean OS | an Apple-ad talking head that lives inside your phone |
make a Seoul list | a voice-over list over fast B-roll and white collage pages |
edit this in RESULT style | a warm podcast edit with navy cards and polaroids |
edit this in stan style | a tool tutorial with your screen behind your head |
make an animated explainer | no camera: a narrator and a world that draws itself |
cut these POV clips into a reel | smart-glasses or GoPro clips cut into a story |
edit this in Face RESULT | RESULT around your face: paper props, polaroids and quote cards beside you, never on you |
make a kinetic doc | a black-and-white archive documentary with one red accent, words popping on as you say them |
edit this in Whiteboard | a split screen: a marker board above draws each thought live, you below |
make a Step Deck | a numbered tips deck: giant italic numerals, word cards and prints cut between your face |
edit this as a Product page | a tool review laid out like a product page: real pictures, rebuilt UI, hairline drawings |
edit this in Tactile paper | your talk on printed paper that moves like stop-motion, with real page folds |
edit this in Caption News | big chunked captions, the keyword on a yellow block, source tags |
make a News Package | you as the anchor of a TV news segment |
edit this in Telestrator | freeze the frame and draw on it like a sports replay |
make a Halftone Dossier | a retro printed case file |
edit this in Swiss Grid | a strict grid poster with one red |
make a Data Story | pencil charts of real, sourced numbers |
edit this in Hologram HUD | a wireframe scan with target boxes |
edit mine like this reel | it studies a reel you love and edits yours the same way |
Plus seven one-word presets: clean, editorial, meme, cinematic, launch, kinetic, pop.
What you need
- Claude Code on a paid Claude plan. ghost-editor itself is free.
- A Mac with Apple silicon. Linux and Intel Macs are untested.
- About 4 GB of disk; the install sets up ffmpeg, Node, Python, Whisper and OpenCV.
- A free Gemini API key for the B-roll check (the frames it checks go to Google). Without it, that check is skipped.
- An ElevenLabs key, only for the explainer's narrator.
A 60-second reel takes about 15 to 25 minutes of machine time on an M3 MacBook Air.
Questions
Languages? Tested in English and Russian. The demos are in Russian because I post in Russian.
Can it make a style that isn't here? Yes. Describe it or show it a reel and it writes the recipe. That's how the named styles were made.
Sounds and music? Mixkit's free library, downloaded during the install, plus a pack of CC0 meme sounds that ships in the repo.
More: how it works · every building block · licences
Code: MIT. The demo clips are me and my reels: watch, don't reuse. Reels you make are yours.
Star it if it saved you an edit. Follow @kurbaitaev for new styles.