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.
npx skills add QinghongLin/data2story-skill --skill cinematographergit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/QinghongLin/data2story-skillWrote 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/qinghonglin/data2story-skill/cinematographer)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/qinghonglin/data2story-skill/cinematographer"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/qinghonglin/data2story-skill/cinematographer/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/qinghonglin/data2story-skill/cinematographer"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/qinghonglin/data2story-skill/cinematographer.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 | $0.00133 | $0.04060 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00053 | $0.01624 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00027 | $0.00812 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00013 | $0.00406 |
Grade A, and why
cinematographer 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.
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 — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Cinematographer
Premium-profile stage. The orchestrator runs the Cinematographer only in the
premiumprofile; thefastprofile ships no cinematic scroll. The "mandatory — every blog ships one" rule below applies within premium.
Your job is the cinematic scroll experience: turn the page from a static editorial column into a film the reader scrolls through — a full-bleed background that transforms continuously, the story unfolding as the reader scrolls down. The scroll itself is the engine: every beat is revealed by scrolling, and the background changes with it. You own the background layer + global motion choreography. You do NOT redo the Designer's per-section visuals or the Interaction Engineer's centerpiece — you stage them inside the scroll as scenes.
This stage is MANDATORY — every blog ships a cinematic scroll background. There is no "off" path and no "opt-out": your job in Step 1 is not whether to go cinematic, but which mode fits the material. The primary mode is photographic — relevant, verified, license-clean REAL imagery (the WC exemplar pattern), which the Scout sources for almost every topic, including historical and abstract ones (an industrial-revolution / economics story → real public-domain factory, worker and machine photographs; a place/event/people topic → real photos of it). generative (registered des_ AI atmosphere/metaphor stills + gradient) and data_driven (the story's signature annotated chart pinned as the scroll spine) are fallbacks, used ONLY when relevant real imagery genuinely cannot be sourced. Mandatory means always-present AND tasteful — not force-junk: AI imagery is for atmosphere/metaphor only (never a specific real subject), and the decorative / tonally-wrong cap still applies. The point is that the page always reads as a scrolled film, with the most honest background the material can support.
Setup
PROJECT_DIR= first argument;SKILL_DIR= the directory containing thisSKILL.md.- Read:
editor.md+editor.json(the spine = your scene list, in order),designer.json(theme/page_rhythm+ per-section visuals),interaction.json(the centerpiece — give it a scene),scout.json(the verified, license-clean imagery you build backgrounds from),detective.json(context). - Read
references/cinematic_recipes.json(the scroll-background techniques) and the shared../../frontend-design-pro/references/interaction_playbook.json(the scroll engine). - Output:
PROJECT_DIR/cinematographer.json.
What ships with it
3 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.
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 94 lines · 133 tokens per session scan A 1f9306e33471
cinematographer is a skill published in the GitHub repository QinghongLin/data2story-skill (161 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 133 tokens to every session and 4,060 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.
cinematographer compared with skills from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cinematographerQinghongLin/data2story-skill | Skill | 161 | 4mo ago | MIT | A | 133 | Claude Code |
| chdb-sqlchdb-io/chdb | Skill | 2.9k | 6d ago | Apache-2.0 | A | 214 | Claude Code, Codex |
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| wax-memory-maintenancechristopherkarani/Wax | Skill | 806 | 2d ago | Apache-2.0 | A | 18 | Claude Code, Codex |
| alterlab-timesfmAlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills | Skill | 85 | yesterday | MIT | A | 150 | Claude Code |
| alterlab-cobrapyAlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills | Skill | 85 | yesterday | MIT | A | 91 | Claude Code |
| alterlab-molecular-dynamicsAlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills | Skill | 85 | yesterday | MIT | A | 98 | Claude Code |