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Get Started Free →The 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".
.claude/skills/barefootford-buttercut/SKILL.md| Test case | Without → With | Effect | Δ tokens | Δ turns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| case-02 | ✗→✓ | ▲ Improved | -12% | 0% |
| case-05 | ✗→✓ | ▲ Improved | -44% | 0% |
| case-10 | ✗→✓ | ▲ Improved | 41% | 0% |
| case-06 | ✗→✓ | ▲ Improved | -51% | 0% |
| case-07 | ✗→✓ | ▲ Improved | -63% | 0% |
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.
| 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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