shortform-idea-grill

shortform-idea-grill is a skill for Codex from ericosiu/ai-marketing-skills. It costs 113 tokens per session (983 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interview-based tool for turning a founder’s or senior marketer’s current work into ideas for short-form videos, such as Instagram videos.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to produce and rank video concepts with a five-second opening hook, scores, exactly three talking points, a complete payoff, and a matching call to action.
Why use it?
It asks focused questions to uncover real proof, audience needs, available material, and claims that can support original video ideas.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to produce and rank video concepts with a five-second opening hook, scores, exactly three talking points, a complete payoff, and a matching call to action.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ericosiu/ai-marketing-skills/shortform-idea-grill
About the project

AI Marketing Skills is a collection of open-source workflows that help AI coding agents handle marketing and sales work, including growth experiments, pipeline management, content operations, outbound outreach, SEO, and finance analysis. It is intended for marketing and sales teams that want reusable agent-driven processes. The catalogue entries package these workflows as skills for compatible coding agents.

ericosiu/ai-marketing-skills · 3,784 stars · on GitHub · singlegrain.com

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 ericosiu/ai-marketing-skills --skill shortform-idea-grill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ericosiu/ai-marketing-skills

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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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 983 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00113 $0.00983
Opus 5.5 $0.00045 $0.00393
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00023 $0.00197
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00098

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 03632fb0977c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

shortform-idea-grill 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 2mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/score_ideas.py, tests/test_score_ideas.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

shortform-idea-grill/SKILL.md · 109 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 109 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Shortform Idea Grill

Turn current work into success-led videos that earn attention quickly and fully repay the opening promise.

Load the right context

Inspect supplied chats, briefs, transcripts, analytics, creator research, offers, and prior content before asking questions. Prefer work from the current week and ideas not already published.

Read:

  • references/intake-schema.md before interviewing.
  • references/output-contract.md before drafting.
  • references/scoring-rubric.md before scoring.
  • references/ideas-schema.md when saving machine-readable output.

Do not ask for information already present. Distinguish live evidence from remembered context.

Interview one question at a time

Resolve these items in order:

  1. desired outcome;
  2. target viewer and relevant moment;
  3. owned proof and measurable results;
  4. current builds, experiments, opinions, and predictions;
  5. claim boundaries;
  6. CTA and destination;
  7. available screens, artifacts, and recording constraints.

Ask only the single question most likely to improve the queue. Let the user answer freely, then press for numbers, mechanisms, examples, or proof. Stop when further interviewing would not materially change the ranking.

If essential context is missing, return needs_intake with the next question and a recommended answer. A provisional slate may continue only when labeled.

Generate net-new candidates

Mine active work rather than recycling old videos. Cover at least five evidence-supported lanes:

  • money created;
  • money saved;
  • productive capacity created;
  • proof-led workflow demonstration;
  • contrarian operating belief;
  • timely prediction;
  • founder lesson or corrected failure;
  • teardown, comparison, or myth correction.

Reject any idea without a specific viewer, credible proof path, useful payoff, or filmable treatment.

Prefer success language. A failure may establish tension, but the video must resolve into a useful mechanism, result, or decision.

Write hooks that can be repaid

Read the full file on GitHub · 109 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 files 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. 2mo ago First seen · 109 lines · 113 tokens per session scan A 03632fb0977c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

shortform-idea-grill is a skill published in the GitHub repository ericosiu/ai-marketing-skills (3,784 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 113 tokens to every session and 983 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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