documentary-montage-production

documentary-montage-production is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from calesthio/generative-media-skills. It costs 96 tokens per session (5,687 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for making documentary-style videos from archival material, interviews, generated content, and timelines about real people, events, or institutions. It keeps documented facts, personal testimony, illustrations, and editorial interpretation distinct.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to develop an editorial idea, research and log sources, check claims, plan archive and interview sequences, review usage rights, and prepare documentary or advocacy videos.
Why use it?
It helps prevent editing choices from making uncertain claims look proven. It also keeps research, source records, fact-checking, rights, and sensitive legal or safety issues visible during production.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to develop an editorial idea, research and log sources, check claims, plan archive and interview sequences, review usage rights, and prepare documentary or advocacy videos.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/calesthio/generative-media-skills/documentary-montage-production
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 calesthio/generative-media-skills --skill documentary-montage-production
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/calesthio/generative-media-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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Per session 96 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,687 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Memory Poisoning · line 293
    Skill manipulates agent memory, state, or stored context. Memory corruption can alter personality, override safety rules, or cause unpredictable behavior.
    Fix: Protect agent memory and state from modification by untrusted content. Use read-only memory for critical instructions and validate all state changes.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 404
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00096 $0.05687
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.02844
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.01137
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00569

Measured 13d ago against content hash afd36a061781, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

documentary-montage-production 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.

skills/production/content-formats/documentary-montage-production/SKILL.md · 452 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 452 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Documentary Montage Production

Use this skill when the deliverable asks the viewer to believe, understand, or feel the significance of real people, real events, real institutions, or real-world claims. The central rule is: do not let the audience become more certain than the evidence allows.

This is not legal advice. Treat rights, defamation, privacy, platform-policy, election, medical, financial, public-safety, and vulnerable-subject issues as escalation triggers for the appropriate human editor, client approver, platform owner, or counsel.

Non-negotiable documentary posture

Separate five things in every decision:

  1. Documented fact: directly supported by a logged source.
  2. Corroborated interpretation: a reasonable conclusion from multiple logged sources.
  3. Participant testimony: attributed lived experience or opinion, not universal proof.
  4. Illustration or reenactment: visual support that is not evidence.
  5. Editorial thesis: the argument the piece makes from the above.

If a shot, sound cue, texture, caption, edit, or generated image makes category 3, 4, or 5 look like category 1, revise it.

Start with an evidence-first brief

Before writing a script or making prompts, create a working brief with:

  • Thesis: one sentence the piece can fairly support.
  • Audience and release context: platform, geography, client, advocacy/commercial/newsroom/nonprofit context, and expected scrutiny.
  • Core claims: the 3-7 factual claims the piece depends on.
  • Human stakes: whose life, community, work, property, reputation, or safety is affected.
  • Evidence map: source status for each claim: verified, needs corroboration, contested, or must cut.
  • Rights/disclosure map: what footage, photos, voices, logos, documents, maps, music, and generated media will require permission, attribution, label, or review.
  • Sensitivity level: routine, sensitive, high-risk, or legal/editorial review required.

Useful thesis test: "Because [documented change/conflict], [specific people/place/system] now faces [specific consequence]." If the thesis only says "this is shocking" or "you won't believe," it is not yet documentary-grade.

Read the full file on GitHub · 452 lines

Files

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.

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. 13d ago First seen · 452 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A afd36a061781

Subscribe to this mod's changes

documentary-montage-production is a skill published in the GitHub repository calesthio/generative-media-skills (170 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 5,687 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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