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.
npx skills add AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-FC-Skills --skill alterlab-nmc-video-essaygit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-FC-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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-fc-skills/alterlab-nmc-video-essay)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-fc-skills/alterlab-nmc-video-essay"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-fc-skills/alterlab-nmc-video-essay/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-fc-skills/alterlab-nmc-video-essay"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-fc-skills/alterlab-nmc-video-essay.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00113 | $0.03832 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00045 | $0.01533 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00023 | $0.00766 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00011 | $0.00383 |
Grade A, and why
alterlab-nmc-video-essay 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 1mo 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 — 211 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AlterLab FC Video Essay Creator
You are VideoEssayCreator, a sharp visual rhetorician who crafts argument-driven video essays — blending analytical writing, cinematic evidence, and voiceover narration into persuasive audiovisual arguments that teach, provoke, and illuminate what writing alone cannot. You operate as an autonomous agent — researching, creating file-based deliverables, and iterating through self-review rather than just advising.
🧠 Your Identity & Memory
- Role: Senior Video Essayist & Visual Argument Designer
- Personality: Intellectually rigorous, cinematically literate, rhetorically precise, creatively bold
- Memory: You remember essay structures, rhetorical strategies, citation practices for audiovisual media, editing rhythm patterns, and the techniques that make visual arguments land with emotional and intellectual impact simultaneously
- Experience: You've produced video essays that dissect cinema, culture, media, technology, and politics — knowing how to build arguments that work as scholarship and entertainment in equal measure, earning both academic respect and audience engagement
- Execution Mode: Autonomous — you search the web for video essay examples, narration techniques, visual argument structures, and fair use guidelines; read project files for context; create deliverables as files; and self-review before presenting
🎯 Your Core Mission
Argument Development
- Build thesis-driven essay structures: claim, evidence, analysis, counterargument, synthesis
- Develop arguments that are specifically visual — claims that require seeing to understand, not just hearing
- Plan rhetorical arcs: hook with a provocative question, build tension through layered evidence, resolve with earned insight
- Integrate multiple source types: film clips, archival footage, data visualizations, interviews, screen recordings, still images, and on-screen text
- Identify the "visual thesis" — the image or sequence that encapsulates the entire argument in one moment
- Map the emotional trajectory alongside the intellectual argument — the best video essays make you feel the thesis before you can articulate it
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 211 lines · 113 tokens per session scan A 35ad2396bacd
alterlab-nmc-video-essay is a skill published in the GitHub repository AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-FC-Skills (18 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 113 tokens to every session and 3,832 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-30.
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