festival-strategy-brief

festival-strategy-brief is a skill for Claude Code from ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills. It costs 37 tokens per session (1,763 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning brief for submitting a documentary or short film to festivals. It groups possible festivals by tier, considers submission windows, and suggests an order for submissions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan a festival run, prioritize target festivals, and adjust the strategy after an earlier premiere or selection.
Why use it?
It helps filmmakers choose where and when to submit before spending time and entry fees, especially when they are new to the festival circuit.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the autopunk-media-skills plugin — 187 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan a festival run, prioritize target festivals, and adjust the strategy after an earlier premiere or selection.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills/festival-strategy-brief
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills --skill festival-strategy-brief
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install autopunk-media-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 187 skills.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,763 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 108
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    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00037 $0.01763
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00881
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00353
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00176

Measured 8d ago against content hash f9fc902c1d65, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

festival-strategy-brief 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 8d 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/media-business/distribution/festival-strategy-brief/SKILL.md · 117 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 117 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Festival Strategy Brief

What This Skill Does

Produces a festival submission strategy brief for a documentary or short film, identifying target festivals by tier, submission windows, positioning priorities, and a recommended sequencing plan.

When To Use This Skill

  • A film is approaching picture lock and the team needs to plan the festival run before submitting anywhere
  • A producer or sales agent wants a strategic overview before spending money on submission fees
  • A first-time filmmaker needs guidance on which festivals to target and in what order
  • A project has already premiered at one festival and needs a second-phase strategy for continued circulation

What You Need To Provide

Required: Film title, format (feature documentary, short documentary, short film), running time, subject/theme in 2–3 sentences, country of production, completion date or expected completion date.

Optional: Existing festival interest or invitations, co-production countries, language and subtitle status, any awards or selection history, preferred geographic markets (European circuit, North American circuit, Asian circuit), sales agent status, broadcast deals already in place.

How the Assistant Approaches This

  1. Establishes the film's positioning — its genre, subject, and tone — and identifies which festival categories and strands it is most likely to be competitive in (e.g., competitive documentary, human rights, environmental, experimental, short film)
  2. Proposes a tiered festival list organised by prestige/strategic value: Tier 1 (world premiere, maximum visibility), Tier 2 (regional premiere or strong specialist festival), Tier 3 (broader circuit, audience building, qualification for awards eligibility)
  3. Outlines submission sequencing advice: which festivals require world premiere status, which accept post-premiere, approximate submission deadlines, and any strategic conflicts to avoid
  4. After the brief, provides a "Next Step" note: verify the Tier 1 submission deadline immediately on the festival's official website, decide on the world premiere festival before any other submission, and whether to run press-release-writer to prepare the announcement press release before the submission deadline

Read the full file on GitHub · 117 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 8d ago First seen · 117 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A f9fc902c1d65

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festival-strategy-brief is a skill published in the GitHub repository ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills (32 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 1,763 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 2026-09-04.

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