short-form-video

short-form-video is a skill for Claude Code from 2233admin/design-pipeline. It costs 108 tokens per session (2,819 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of short-form-video, MIT.

Guidance for creating short vertical videos for TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts. It covers hooks, pacing, visual interruptions, loops, and reusable video layouts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan or edit 9:16 videos, improve the opening seconds, tighten pacing, create loops, and build repeatable short-video templates.
Why use it?
It helps shape a short video so viewers understand the idea quickly and have a reason to keep watching.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the tiktok-video-skills plugin — 4 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan or edit 9:16 videos, improve the opening seconds, tighten pacing, create loops, and build repeatable short-video templates.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/2233admin/design-pipeline/short-form-video
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add 2233admin/design-pipeline --skill short-form-video
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/2233admin/design-pipeline

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install tiktok-video-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills.

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Per session 108 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,819 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00108 $0.02819
Opus 5 $0.00054 $0.01409
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00564
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00282

Measured 8d ago against content hash 27a55d05cded, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

short-form-video 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 8d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to short-form-video — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skill/references/iart-motion-skills/upstream/tiktok-video-skills/skills/short-form-video/SKILL.md · 156 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 156 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Short-Form Video

Engineer a 9:16 video that survives the swipe. Short-form is not a small launch film — it is a retention machine: a hook that earns the first second, pattern interrupts that reset attention every few seconds, and often a loop that buys watch-time past 100%. The craft is timing, not polish.

When to use

  • Reels / TikTok / YouTube Shorts (7–60s, vertical 9:16).
  • Retention editing: fixing drop-off, adding pattern interrupts, tightening pacing.
  • Hooks, seamless loops, repeatable short-form templates (one design, many topics).

Story structure (the retention contract)

Short-form storytelling is a contract with the viewer's thumb: every second must re-earn the next one. The narrative is shaped backwards from the retention curve, not forwards from an intro. Lock these before touching the timeline.

  • One idea per video. A short carries exactly one payoff. A second idea splits attention and the curve sags in the middle — make it a second video instead. If you can't name the single takeaway in a sentence, you don't have a short yet.
  • Open a loop in the first ~3s, close it last. The hook poses a question or gap (the open loop); the payoff answers it. The viewer stays because the loop is open — so never answer it early, and never bury the payoff under setup.
  • No dead air. Every beat either advances the idea or resets attention. Cut anything that does neither. Silence, slow ramps, throat-clearing intros ("hey guys, in this video…") are where viewers swipe.
  • Why the curve, not the cut, is the unit of work. The algorithm distributes whatever holds the per-second retention curve flat; a "good" edit that flattens the curve loses to an ugly one that keeps it up. You are editing the curve, and the hook gates everything after it — fix it first.

The narrative spine (the Hook → Setup → Body → Payoff/loop arc is budgeted in the table below):

Move Story job Failure if missed
Hook Open the loop; promise the payoff Swipe in first 3s
Tension hold Keep the gap open through the body Flat middle, mid-drop
Payoff Close the loop — the one idea, delivered "Wasted my time," no share
Loop / CTA Feed back to frame 0, or one clear ask No re-watch, no action

Read the full file on GitHub · 156 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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.

Changes

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.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 156 lines · 108 tokens per session scan A 27a55d05cded

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short-form-video is a skill published in the GitHub repository 2233admin/design-pipeline (9 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 108 tokens to every session and 2,819 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to short-form-video, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.