alterlab-nmc-video-essay

alterlab-nmc-video-essay is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-FC-Skills. It costs 113 tokens per session (3,832 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating video essays, which use spoken narration and selected visuals to develop an argument or analysis.

In plain words
What is it for?
Planning video essays, writing voiceover scripts, choosing cinematic evidence, and designing argument-driven edits.
Why use it?
It helps turn research or criticism into a structured audiovisual piece rather than a text-only essay.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Planning video essays, writing voiceover scripts, choosing cinematic evidence, and designing argument-driven edits.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-fc-skills/alterlab-nmc-video-essay
Install

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Any agent
npx skills add AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-FC-Skills --skill alterlab-nmc-video-essay
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-FC-Skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 113 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,832 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 original No closer match found 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 $0.00113 $0.03832
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.01916
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00766
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00383

Measured 12d ago against content hash 35ad2396bacd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

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 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.

skills/nmc/alterlab-nmc-video-essay/SKILL.md · 211 lines

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

Read the full file on GitHub · 211 lines

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. 12d ago First seen · 211 lines · 113 tokens per session scan A 35ad2396bacd

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alterlab-nmc-video-essay is a skill published in the GitHub repository AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-FC-Skills (14 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 113 tokens to every session and 3,832 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-30.

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