develop-topic

develop-topic is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sugarforever/boring-video-studio. It costs 39 tokens per session (937 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A content-planning workflow that turns a candidate topic into an approved plan with a clear argument, supporting evidence, and boundaries before an article or video is written.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare nearby topic directions, research claims, record experiments and sources, and produce an approved topic contract for later writing.
Why use it?
It reduces unsupported claims, unclear scope, and research gaps discovered too late during drafting. It keeps source collection separate from the editorial decision about what the content should argue.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to compare nearby topic directions, research claims, record experiments and sources, and produce an approved topic contract for later writing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sugarforever/boring-video-studio/develop-topic
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 sugarforever/boring-video-studio --skill develop-topic
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sugarforever/boring-video-studio

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 937 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 $0.00039 $0.00937
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00375
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00187
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00094

Measured 4d ago against content hash 0403125cae35, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

develop-topic 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 4d 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/boring-video/develop-topic/SKILL.md · 93 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Develop topic

Turn a candidate topic into an approved content contract. The work is ready for writing only when the argument, evidence, and boundaries no longer need to be invented downstream.

Scope

Start from one candidate topic or a small, naturally bounded set. When several nearby directions remain, compare them lightly for audience value, novelty, verifiability, demonstrability, author fit, and overclaiming risk; ask the user to choose before deep research. Open-ended trend scanning and maintaining an idea backlog stay outside this skill.

Evidence workspace

Create a content/ directory in the video project:

content/
|-- RESEARCH.md
|-- TOPIC.md
`-- experiments/

Use RESEARCH.md for sourced facts, interpretations, disagreements, unknowns, rejected directions, and links to primary material. Keep collection separate from editorial selection.

Treat a claim as material when it affects whether the subject works, matters to the audience, differs from an alternative, can be demonstrated, or remains valid within the stated scope. Support it with a source or experiment strong enough for that exact claim; label weaker evidence provisional rather than silently stretching it.

When a claim needs runnable evidence, perform the smallest experiment that can settle it and write content/experiments/<name>.md with the question, method, samples, environment, command, results, limitations, and conclusions the result supports. Keep code and raw data in the project that owns them; record their paths and Git revision instead of copying them into the video project.

Content contract

Write content/TOPIC.md:

---
status: draft
audience: ...
core_question: ...
thesis: ...
scope: ...
voice:
  language: ...
  skills: []
  documents: []
  unavailable: []
  status: resolved | assumed
---

# Working title

## Reader promise

## Argument

### A01 - Claim
- role: Why this claim exists in the argument
- claim: The exact proposition
- evidence: Links to RESEARCH.md headings or experiment reports
- confidence: established | provisional
- boundary: What the evidence does not establish

## Out of scope

## Open questions

## Alternate titles

Read the full file on GitHub · 93 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. 4d ago Changed 0403125cae35
  2. 13d ago Changed · +2 lines d96c35ca4335
  3. 18d ago First seen · 91 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A b509f664209f

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develop-topic is a skill published in the GitHub repository sugarforever/boring-video-studio (184 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 937 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-30.

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