Claude Code Just Killed Video Editing: Clone Wolf, the Free Claude Skill That Makes Your Shorts For You

You are in the right place. The skill from the reel is called Clone Wolf, and the full download is on this page. One topic goes in, one finished 1080x1920 short comes out: script, cloned voice, AI avatar, motion graphics, captions, music, a self check, and a scheduled post on every platform. It still waits for your go before anything posts.

• The Clone Wolf skill. The playbook Claude follows, from hook to scheduled post. It goes in ~/.claude/skills/clone-wolf/.
• The engine. The scripts that render your avatar, build the video, run the QA check, mix the music and schedule the posts. It goes in ~/shortform-pipeline/.
• The look. A motion graphics library, color themes, fonts, sound effects and real app logos, so your first short looks finished.
• Setup notes. A README and an .env.example. No API keys are inside: you add your own.

• A Mac. The avatar cutout and the face check use Apple Vision, which Clone Wolf compiles on its first run.
• A HeyGen account with a digital twin of you. This is your AI avatar and your cloned voice. You record one short training clip when you set it up. After that, there is no filming for each video.
• A Blotato account connected to your socials. Clone Wolf uses it to schedule the posts and to set up comment to DM replies on Instagram and Facebook.
• Free tools Claude can install for you: Python, Node, ffmpeg, yt-dlp, Whisper and HyperFrames (the engine that turns the graphics into video).

1. 1Tap Download Clone Wolf (zip) on this page.
2. 2Drag the zip into Claude Code and tell it to install Clone Wolf by following the README inside.
3. 3Paste your HEYGEN_API_KEY and BLOTATO_API_KEY into ~/.claude/.env when Claude asks for them.
4. 4Make your HeyGen digital twin, then have Claude put its IDs into engine/avatar.json.
5. 5Type /clone-wolf and give it your first topic.

Clone Wolf does not guess. It starts from a hook that already got views in your niche, keeps its wording and structure, and only swaps the slots: the tool, the topic, the number. The result still has to read clearly to someone who has never seen you before, and any number has to come with a source.

Claude writes the script from the skill's script rules: one idea per line, plain words, a real payoff, and one ask at the end (comment a keyword). It reads the script as a cold viewer and cuts any line that does not land. Money gets written as words, because an AI voice reads a dollar figure digit by digit. You lock the words before the avatar renders, so you pay for one render per short, not five.

The locked script goes to your HeyGen digital twin. It comes back as you, talking to the camera, in your own voice. Clone Wolf only re-renders when the spoken words change.

Before it builds anything, Clone Wolf maps what is on screen for every line. Then it builds the short: your avatar, motion graphics that animate the thing you are saying, real logos, punch captions, and a music bed timed to the hook. Anything you name on screen is shown, and something new appears within the first two seconds so the scroll stops.

This is the step most setups skip. Before a short counts as done, Clone Wolf runs a QA pass over the finished file. It flags a static opening, a graphic that hangs on screen too long, captions sitting on top of a graphic, text or tiles bleeding off the edge, blank frames, voice glitches, loudness off target, and an avatar that is out of sync with the build. The short only ships with zero fails and zero warnings. Then it reviews every cut, fixes what it finds and renders again.

Clone Wolf writes one caption per platform. Instagram and Facebook get the comment keyword line, because those two have the comment to DM flow. TikTok, YouTube and X get a direct link instead. It does a dry run first and shows you the posting plan, and only after your go does it schedule the short to Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube and X through Blotato (LinkedIn is optional).

The paid parts are your HeyGen avatar renders and your Blotato plan. Check both pricing pages before your first run. Clone Wolf is built to get each short right in one avatar render, so you are not paying for retakes.

If you want help setting it up, or want to see what other builders are making with skills like this, the Claude Code Club is where 8,000+ builders share their systems.