short-form-video-production

short-form-video-production is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from S3YED/appie-kit. It costs 52 tokens per session (674 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An end-to-end workflow for creating short videos for Reels, Shorts, and TikTok, from idea and opening hook through editing, captions, thumbnails, and export.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose ideas, write retention-focused scripts, make sentence-level edits, add captions and transitions, create first frames, and review exports.
Why use it?
It helps keep short videos focused, understandable, visually changing, and ready for the required file format.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to choose ideas, write retention-focused scripts, make sentence-level edits, add captions and transitions, create first frames, and review exports.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/s3yed/appie-kit/short-form-video-production
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add S3YED/appie-kit --skill short-form-video-production
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/S3YED/appie-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 674 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.
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 $0.00052 $0.00674
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00337
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00135
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00067

Measured 9d ago against content hash 99a170559d61, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

short-form-video-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 9d 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/content/short-form-video-production/SKILL.md · 60 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Short-Form Video Production

Umbrella skill for Reels, Shorts, and TikTok production. Prefer this over separate micro-skills for ideation, editing, thumbnails, Remotion notes, or one project-specific production pass.

End-to-end workflow

  1. Choose the concept and the audience-specific promise.
  2. Design the first frame and hook before polishing the middle.
  3. Build an open loop and delay the payoff.
  4. Cut at the sentence level for clarity, novelty, and energy.
  5. Add captions, visual changes, and audio transitions.
  6. Verify the first frame, the 3-second hook, and the abrupt ending.
  7. Export, review muted, and deliver the correct file format.

Core sections

Ideation and retention

  • Hook first, payoff later.
  • Use clear audience targeting and 5th-grade readability when scripting.
  • Structure around hook -> foreshadow -> tension -> payoff -> abrupt end.

Editing decisions

  • Keep only sentences that advance the story, prove the claim, or deliver payoff.
  • Trim transitional filler and long dead pauses.
  • Preserve emphasis pauses that carry meaning.
  • Ensure a visual change at least every 5-8 seconds.

Captions and motion

  • Highlight one meaning-bearing word per phrase.
  • Verify word timing tightly.
  • Use motion as emphasis, not constant noise.

Thumbnails and first-frame design

  • First frame must communicate the concept on mute.
  • Face, contrast, and 3-5 word text are usually enough.
  • Design for mobile legibility and safe zones.
  • For vertical reels, compose natively in 9:16 from the start.
  • When the opener is the main hook, generate or revise the opener before polishing downstream scenes.

Tooling and implementation

  • FFmpeg for extraction, normalization, stitching, muxing, and quick probes.
  • Remotion for programmable compositions, caption animation, and reusable branded systems.
  • HyperFrames for HTML-native, agent-friendly editing pipelines for deterministic social-video renders.
  • Submagic API for polished captions, hook titles, AI B-roll, and Magic Clips.
  • Vizard API for clip/edit automation and multi-format outputs.
  • Use commercial APIs first for speed and reliability. Use OSS tools only after secure vetting.

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 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. 9d ago First seen · 60 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 99a170559d61

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short-form-video-production is a skill published in the GitHub repository S3YED/appie-kit (9 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 674 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 2026-09-03.

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