video-director

video-director is a skill for Claude Code from big-emotion/agent-atelier. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,631 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A production procedure that turns an approved short-form video script into a finished publishable file. It establishes a project's format rules once, such as voice, pacing, canvas, captions, sequence, and ending, then follows those rules for later videos.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for establishing a video format and producing vertical videos with the required assembly, captions, and deliverables.
Why use it?
It prevents each production session from quietly changing the channel's look or format. It also identifies when a script cannot be produced within the agreed format instead of hiding the conflict.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the agent-comms plugin — 9 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for establishing a video format and producing vertical videos with the required assembly, captions, and deliverables.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/big-emotion/agent-atelier/video-director
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 big-emotion/agent-atelier --skill video-director
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/big-emotion/agent-atelier

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-comms, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills.

Wrote 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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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,631 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 $0.00000 $0.01631
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00652
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00326
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00163

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 95b88bffb839, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

video-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 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.

plugins/agent-comms/skills/video-director/SKILL.md · 129 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 129 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Video Director

Owns the span between an approved script and a publishable file. It does not choose the subject, does not write the narration, and does not decide where the piece is published.

Upstream This skill Downstream
attention-architect — the script and why it holds format, assembly, captions, deliverables, packaging content-strategist — where it goes and when

The first rule

A project's approved format spec is authoritative and is not redesigned from a production session. Once an operator has approved a voice, a caption treatment and a brand ending, those are settled; changing them because a beat would be easier to time is how a channel stops looking like one channel.

Two modes follow from that:

  • --establish — the project has no format spec. Decide each item below once, with the operator, and write it down where the project keeps it.
  • --produce — the project has one. Read it, follow it, and flag any place the script cannot be produced within it rather than quietly bending it.

What a format spec must settle

Each of these has burned a session somewhere when it was left implicit.

Item What must be written down
Voice The exact voice identifier and provider. Never invent one, never silently substitute. Verify it still resolves before generating.
Hook delivery Whether the hook is spoken. It should be: a silent title card followed by unrelated narration has been explicitly rejected on a working format.
Pacing The silence after the hook (~0.7 s on a working format), comma pauses (0.15–0.30 s), strong punctuation and idea changes (0.35–0.70 s). Natural pauses already in the take count toward these — do not add identical silence after every mark.
Canvas and export Aspect, resolution, container, codec, pixel format, frame rate, audio codec, fast-start metadata.
Captions Face, case, size on the canvas, fill and outline, maximum words and characters per cue, maximum lines, vertical inset, maximum width, and the renderer's fractions.
Sequence The beat order the format follows, matching the script's own shape.
Brand ending Palette, faces, text order, logo treatment, entrance timing, hold duration. Use the official logo on its own layer — never regenerate an approximate one.

Read the full file on GitHub · 129 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. 1mo ago First seen · 129 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 95b88bffb839

Subscribe to this mod's changes

video-director is a skill published in the GitHub repository big-emotion/agent-atelier (3 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,631 tokens. 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 2026-09-08.

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