podcli

Name: podcli Review
Item: podcli
Rating: 2.3
Author: Aaron Matthews

Skill Development Poor

Works inClaude Code

Poor Scanned — metadata only

Reduces manual podcast editing labor and accelerates content distribution to social platforms by automating clip generation, face tracking, and caption proce…

Open-source AI podcast clipper. Generate vertical clips with face tracking and burned-in captions. CLI, MCP server, web app.

Generate short vertical video clips from long podcast episodes for social media posting.
Automatically track speakers' faces and add captions to podcast video content.
Batch process multiple podcast recordings into shareable short-form clips efficiently.

79 starsAGPL-3.0 (check with legal)FreeQuick setup

Below standard — Significant caveats apply. Not recommended without careful review of the security and evaluation sections.

Why it matters

Reduces manual podcast editing labor and accelerates content distribution to social platforms by automating clip generation, face tracking, and caption processing—lowering time-to-publish for media teams.

Best for

Content operations teams and media companies repurposing long-form podcast episodes into short-form social video assets.

Works in

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Source

https://github.com/nmbrthirteen/podcli

By nmbrthirteen

How to Get It

Option 1: Claude Desktop App (Code Mode)Click the + button next to the prompt box → Plugins → Add plugin. Search and click Install. Skills work in Claude Code only.

Option 2: Paste into Claude CodeCopy the command below and paste it into your conversation. Claude will install it.

Command

claude plugins install nmbrthirteen/podcli

Tip: Paste this into a Claude Code conversation. Verify command matches your Claude Code version.

Auto-generated from the tool's public listing — not hands-on verified. Cross-check against the source repo's README before running.

First thing to try

After installing, paste this into Claude:

Help me generate short vertical video clips from long podcast episodes for social media posting

CostFree

Trust Signals Auto-scanned

Stars79Contributors6Last updated2026-10-17LicenseAGPL-3.0 (check with legal)Known CVEsNone foundSources: GitHub Advisory Database + OSV.dev · Scanned 2026-10-22 · scanner v1

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Discussed on Hacker News

Show HN: Open-source MCP server for AI podcast clipping — Hacker News · 1 pts

1 mentions across 1 sources

Reviewer notes

Auto-scanned review. These are observations, not a security certification.

Scored from trust signals (evidence-eval-v1): 77 GitHub stars; contributors unknown; last commit 0d ago; license AGPL-3.0.

Things to check

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Evaluation Scores

Evaluation

Ease of Use

1/5

Versatility

3/5

Reliability

3/5

Security

3/5

Overall score2.30 / 5.00 PoorEvaluatedOct 2026

Scored from trust signals (evidence-eval-v1): 77 GitHub stars; contributors unknown; last commit 0d ago; license AGPL-3.0.

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