video-caption-creation

A writing workflow for captions and on-screen opening lines for short videos on TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating several opening-text options, writing short-video captions, and preparing hashtag sets. It is not intended for text-only posts, long videos, or podcast show notes.
Why use it?
It helps make the topic clear early and organizes the words, captions, and hashtags used to help platforms classify the video.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cdeistopened/skill-stack/video-caption-creation
Any agent
npx skills add cdeistopened/skill-stack --skill video-caption-creation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cdeistopened/skill-stack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,813 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00036 $0.02813
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01406
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00563
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00281

Measured 2d ago against content hash 027cbcd31147, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

video-caption-creation 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 2d 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.

.claude/skills/video-caption-creation/SKILL.md · 421 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 421 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Video Caption Writer

Purpose

This skill creates algorithm-optimized captions and on-screen text for short-form video content using the "Triple Word Score" system to maximize reach and engagement.

Core Philosophy: Content serves the topic first. When you serve the topic correctly, algorithms will serve your content to people interested in that topic.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when you need to:

  • Create on-screen text hooks for video clips (3-5 options per clip)
  • Write captions for short-form video (TikTok, Instagram, YouTube Shorts, etc.)
  • Optimize video for algorithm discovery (topic identification in first 10 seconds)
  • Generate strategic hashtag sets (10-12, broad to specific)

Do NOT use for:

  • Text-only social posts (use social-content-creation skill instead)
  • Long-form YouTube videos (separate workflow)
  • Podcast show notes (separate podcast workflow)

The Triple Word Score System

Algorithms and humans need to immediately understand your content through FOUR signals:

1. Audio Transcript (MOST IMPORTANT)

  • What you say out loud - algorithms auto-transcribe this
  • Explicitly say topic words in first 10 seconds
  • Repeat core terminology throughout
  • Use natural speech patterns with topic-relevant vocabulary

2. On-Screen Text Reinforcement

  • Visual overlay that reinforces spoken words
  • Lead with topic words in first text overlay
  • Use bold, clear terminology
  • Don't compete with audio - reinforce it

3. Caption Copy Optimization

  • Post description with topic-relevant keywords
  • Open with topic-relevant phrases in first sentence
  • Include natural keyword variations
  • Provide context for algorithm understanding

4. Strategic Hashtag System

  • 10-12 hashtags (optimal range)
  • Mix broad and specific (#Productivity + #TimeManagement)
  • Include audience-specific (#Entrepreneurs)
  • Span from general to niche

When all four signals align, algorithms AND humans immediately recognize: "This is for me."

Read the full file on GitHub · 421 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. 2d ago First seen · 421 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 027cbcd31147

Subscribe to this mod's changes

video-caption-creation is a skill published in the GitHub repository cdeistopened/skill-stack (27 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 2,813 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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