Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add calesthio/generative-media-skills --skill cinematic-shot-directiongit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/calesthio/generative-media-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/calesthio/generative-media-skills/cinematic-shot-direction)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/calesthio/generative-media-skills/cinematic-shot-direction"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/calesthio/generative-media-skills/cinematic-shot-direction/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/calesthio/generative-media-skills/cinematic-shot-direction"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/calesthio/generative-media-skills/cinematic-shot-direction.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00065 | $0.06502 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00032 | $0.03251 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00013 | $0.01300 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00650 |
Grade A, and why
cinematic-shot-direction 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 13d 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 — 350 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Direct cinematic shots as editorial decisions
Treat a shot as a controlled change in audience knowledge, attention, and feeling—not as a bundle of cinematic adjectives. Decide what the audience must perceive, choose the camera relationship that makes that perception likely, and specify only the variables needed to preserve it through production and editing.
Use three evidence labels throughout the work:
- Established fact: optics, geometry, or supported perceptual evidence.
- Production convention: a broadly used continuity or craft practice that may be broken deliberately.
- Production heuristic: a defensible starting point, not a law or guaranteed emotional effect.
Do not claim that a high angle always means weakness, a low angle always means power, a wide lens always feels energetic, or handheld always feels real. These are contextual readings. State the intended effect and test whether the complete image supports it.
Begin with the dramatic job
Write one sentence before choosing gear or movement:
At this beat, the audience should notice [subject/change], understand [relationship/geography], and feel [quality], while [information] remains concealed or secondary.
Then identify the shot's editorial function:
- Orient: establish people, objects, exits, distances, or direction of travel.
- Reveal: introduce new information by cutting, reframing, focus, blocking, or camera travel.
- Witness: hold a behavior long enough for performance and consequence to register.
- Identify: align with a character's looking, hearing, or bodily position.
- Compare: place subjects in one frame or matched frames so their relationship is legible.
- Isolate: remove contextual information to privilege face, gesture, texture, or object.
- Transition: carry direction, shape, action, occlusion, or attention into another shot.
If the sentence still works with a locked camera, prefer the locked camera until movement has a specific job. A moving camera can add meaning, but the ASC's professional guidance begins movement choice with the script and intended shot, not the rig (ASC, “Tools for Camera Movement”).
What ships with it
1 file 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.
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.
- 13d ago First seen · 350 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 4f04d4a1c4a1
cinematic-shot-direction is a skill published in the GitHub repository calesthio/generative-media-skills (170 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 6,502 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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