Skill: ButterCut home
SkillProductivityThe ButterCut home menu — welcome the user back, then ask what they'd like to do (start a new cut, add footage to a library, a one-off task, or something else) and hand off to the right skill. Use as the front door when the user opens ButterCut, types "buttercut" or "bc", or asks "where do I start", "what can you do", or "help me get started".
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
No other account needed.
Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.
Then ask your AI: use the Skill: ButterCut home skill
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by barefootford/buttercut in skills/buttercut/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
This is the front door to ButterCut. Welcome the user, find out what they want, and hand off to the right skill. Don't do the work here — route to it.
What to do
- Welcome the user back to ButterCut in a sentence — warm and brief, in an editor's voice (no developer talk).
- Ask what they'd like to do with the AskUserQuestion tool. Offer these three options (the tool adds its own "Other" choice for anything else):
- New cut — build a roughcut, scene, selects reel, or an edit from a script.
- Add footage — add new clips to an existing library and analyze them.
- Misc task — a one-off, like pulling a clip's audio, extracting a frame, converting a file, or drafting notes.
- Route to the matching skill based on their answer:
| they picked… | run |
|---|---|
| New cut | the cut skill |
| Add footage | the process-library skill |
| Misc task | the misc-task skill |
| Other / something else | read what they wrote and run the closest skill — create-library for a brand-new project, or backup-library, full-transcript, etc. If it's still unclear, ask a follow-up. |
Keep it short. The point is to get the user moving, not to explain ButterCut.
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- Last commit
- Sep 2026
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buttercut- Source
- github.com/barefootford/buttercut