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The Descript craft skill — edit talk content (podcasts, interviews, talking-head video) by editing the transcript instead of the timeline. Use when…

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By Frank Heijdenrijk, MIT licence. Shared here with credit.

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The talk-content editing tool skill — write the edit in the transcript, Overdub with consent, refine the sound, dress the visuals, and ship the cuts. The agent plans (and can drive Underlord via API/MCP where connected); the human verifies by ear and approves; WoopSocial publishes the exports. (Ships with tools/integrations/descript.md.)

The POV: the transcript is the timeline — decide in text, verify by ear

For dialogue-heavy content, editing the transcript beats scrubbing a timeline: delete the sentence, the clip disappears; move the paragraph, the footage follows — reviews report ~60–70% editing-time cuts for talk content. But the paradigm has two sharp edges the top 1% respect. (1) The voice spine: Overdub's consent-verified, own-voice-only design is the model, not an obstacle — it exists so nobody types words into someone else's mouth; and the craft truth is it shines on flubbed words, not paragraphs (long Overdub drifts synthetic — re-record those). (2) The meaning spine: text-editing makes it dangerously easy to rearrange a guest into saying something they didn't — concision yes, meaning-flips never, and the human owns the final cut of anyone else's words. Operationally: the accuracy pass is mandatory (transcript errors become wrong edits AND wrong captions), and since the Sept 2025 overhaul, the workflow must be credit-aware — media minutes count everything you import, and formerly-unlimited AI features are metered.

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