Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add 0xhughs/director-skills --skill style-cinematography-directorgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/0xhughs/director-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
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Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00045 | $0.00689 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00023 | $0.00345 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00009 | $0.00138 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00069 |
Grade A, and why
style-cinematography-director scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 78 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
style-cinematography-director
When to use
- The user asks for cinematic style, genre look, camera language, lensing, lighting, blocking, realism, texture, visual tone, or art-direction guidance.
- The user has a story but needs a visual language before shot lists or prompts.
- The user wants style consistency across scenes or model outputs.
When not to use
- The user only wants model-specific parameter conversion.
- The user needs screenplay dialogue rather than visual direction.
- The user asks for a single still prompt and already has full visual specs.
Required inputs
- Story/scene/concept
- Genre/tone/audience experience
- Desired realism level
- References if any
Optional inputs
- Runtime
- Target platform/aspect ratio
- Color palette
- Continuity bible
- Model/tool constraints
Workflow
- Translate abstract tone into visible choices: contrast, palette, lens distance, camera stability, light source, texture, blocking, and production design.
- Select a genre grammar but avoid copying a specific protected work.
- Define lens and framing rules that express emotional distance and power dynamics.
- Define lighting rules with direction, quality, source, color temperature, and shadow behavior.
- Define texture and realism rules: skin, fabric, weather, grain, imperfections, and artifact guardrails.
- Create a compact style bible and shot-level style tags for downstream prompts.
- Flag style choices that conflict with target model limits.
Decision logic
- If the user gives only mood words, convert them into concrete camera/light/color decisions.
- If multiple references conflict, choose a dominant anchor and one accent.
- If photorealism matters, prioritize physical light, lens behavior, and micro-texture over quality adjectives.
- If the result is for video, include motion and blocking rules.
Output formats
- Visual direction brief
- Genre/tone translation
- Cinematography rules
- Lighting palette
- Texture/realism rules
- Prompt-ready style block
What ships with it
8 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
- checklists/style_quality_checklist.md 314 B
- examples/genre_to_visual_direction.md 1.0 KB
- references/camera_lens_movement.md 1.3 KB
- references/cinematic_language.md 1.4 KB
- references/genre_style_tone.md 1.5 KB
- references/lighting_and_photorealism.md 1.1 KB
- templates/visual_style_bible.md 594 B
- tests/style_translation_tests.md 264 B
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 12d ago First seen · 78 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 575c1c421886
style-cinematography-director is a skill published in the GitHub repository 0xhughs/director-skills (8 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 689 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.
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