Building an AI editing agent from scratch with Claude Opus 5.5
The author argues most existing skills are bloated and token-expensive, recommends building an agent from scratch, and shows a video edited with Claude Opus 5.5.
here's how to build your own ai agentic editor... first thing you need to know: - most of the skills in the space are way too bloated they were generated in prehistoric times (before opus 5.5)... which means: - useless info on skill md files - bloated skills which don't follow convention - unnecessary logic - token expensive what you need to do is build the agent based on your style and your videos from scratch. you will see a big improvement on speed and token-efficiency while also not losing quality.. check the prompt 👇🏻 here's a video i edited with claude opus 5.5: