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video-production-skills

Agent Skills for complete AI video production, from character sheets and storyboards to shot production, editorial, mastering and evaluation.

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Skills do not use an MCP config. Follow the steps in the README below.

README

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Video Production Skills

Direct AI video productions, not isolated generations.

Video Production Skills gives AI coding agents a production workflow for turning a brief into a finished video.

It supports the full production process:

Creative definition: visual direction, character sheets and manifests, product manifests
Previsualisation: storyboards, shot plans, animatics
Shot development: reference frames, motion prototypes, video-shot production and selection
Editorial: continuity, editing, audio integration
Finishing and delivery: mastering and delivery variants
Quality: evaluation, technical QC and targeted refinement.

The workflow is designed to plan cheaply, approve creative decisions, preserve continuity, select shots, edit, evaluate, and retry only what failed.

Approval and cost control

Creative decisions are approved by you, not by the agent.

Selection is the agent's. It may advance an artifact to selected — "keep developing this".
Approval is yours. Only you move an artifact to approved or locked, and the approver is recorded in approvedBy. An artifact marked approved with nobody recorded as approving it is treated as unapproved, and tools/validate-production.ts reports it.

Approval is requested before expensive generation for visual direction, character and identity references, environment references, the shot plan, and picture lock.

The agent asks before inventing a story-changing parameter it was not given — who the characters are, where the piece is set, which props carry meaning — because the cheapest representation that resolves a creative question is a question.

Retries and spend are bounded. When corrective attempts at one layer hit the agreed ceiling, or generation passes the agreed budget, the run stops and reports rather than escalating cost quietly.

Install

npx skills add sb-dev/video-production-skills \
  --skill video-production \
  --skill video-evaluate \
  --agent claude-code

For the default image/video execution path:

npx skills add replicate/skills \
  --skill find-models \
  --skill compare-models \
  --skill prompt-images \
  --skill prompt-videos \
  --skill run-models \
  --agent claude-code

For Codex: use --agent codex instead.

Set REPLICATE_API_TOKEN when generation is required.

Quick start — Mechanical Watch Hero

Start with one shot and learn the core production loop.

Use video-production to create a 6-second luxury product hero shot.

Create a cinematic macro video of a black mechanical wristwatch resting on a brushed metal surface. The shot should feel premium, controlled, and elegant.

Requirements:
- Duration: 6 seconds
- Format: 16:9
- Tone: luxury commercial
- Subject: one black mechanical watch with a detailed dial, polished case, and visible texture on the strap
- Camera: slow, precise push-in with a subtle lateral move
- Lighting: dark studio environment with a narrow moving highlight sweeping across the watch face and case
- Focus: preserve crisp dial details, indices, hands, reflections, and premium material feel
- Background: minimal, dark, unobtrusive
- Motion: no chaotic movement; everything should feel controlled and intentional

Workflow:
- Establish concise visual direction first
- Create a reference frame before final video generation
- Generate at least two shot candidates
- Select the strongest candidate
- Run evaluation and technical QC

What to optimise for:
- premium product fidelity
- reflection control
- readable dial details
- smooth camera motion
- elegant lighting transition

A one-shot project should stay small:

production/video/
├── brief.md
├── references/
├── shots/shot-001/
│   ├── reference-frame.png
│   ├── candidates/
│   ├── selection.json
│   └── provenance.json
├── master/video-master.mp4
└── evaluation/

The important behaviour is:

cheap checkpoint → approve → generate → evaluate → refine only what failed

Learn by producing

Progress through increasingly demanding productions. Each adds a real production problem, not another abstraction.

Level 1 — Control one shot

6s single shots

Learn candidates, selection, refinement, and QC. Each example folder holds the prompt, the generated files, and an explanation of what happened.


Mechanical Watch Hero — luxury product hero	Midnight Espresso — food/product commercial

Last Train Portrait — cinematic character shot	Boxer at Dawn — sports-action shot

Level 2 — Make shots work together

12–15s three-shot sequences

Learn character continuity, storyboard, shot planning, and editing.


Last Train Home — three-shot character sequence	Missed Connection — two-character near miss

The Red Umbrella — colour-anchor tracking sequence	The Letter — restrained prop drama

Adds visual-direction.md, storyboard/, shot-plan.json, and edit/.

Level 3 — Produce a commercial

15s commercials with audio and delivery variants

Learn product fidelity, graphics, audio, and delivery variants.


Obsidian No. 7 — luxury fragrance	Arc One — wireless headphones

Apex — running shoe	Ember — espresso machine

Adds product references/manifests, graphics/, audio/, and delivery/.

Level 4 — Direct a short

30–45s multi-sequence micro-films

Learn shared references, sequences, animatics, and editorial iteration.


Signal Lost — sci-fi micro-film	Night Courier — urban action micro-film

The Last Light — atmospheric storm short	Room 417 — suspense micro-film

Adds shared/ references and sequences/ when a flat shot list stops scaling.

Level 5 — Run a video campaign

Hero film + product film + social + bumper

Learn multiple productions and cross-domain handoffs.


Aster — electric motorcycle campaign	Nova — AR glasses campaign

Helios — home robot campaign	Atlas One — adventure e-bike campaign

At this level the project can compose other Creative Production Skills through artifacts:

production/
├── advertising/   # audience, proposition, claims
├── narrative/     # story and scenes
├── music/         # composition and master
└── video/         # visual production and video masters

Project structure grows with the work

One shot
Use brief, references, shots, master, and evaluation.

Shots must work together
Add visual-direction, storyboard, shot-plan, and edit.

Product, audio, or delivery matter
Add manifests, graphics, audio, and delivery.

A flat shot list stops scaling
Add shared and sequences.

Several distinct videos share assets
Use video/shared and video/productions.

Other creative domains contribute
Use production/{advertising,narrative,music,video}.

Keep the structure lean:

a shot is the smallest retryable production unit;
selections point to candidates instead of copying them into selected/ folders;
lifecycle state lives in artifact metadata, not global draft/approved/final trees;
shared/ exists only for genuinely shared artifacts;
masters stay separate from delivery variants.

Skills

`video-production`

Plan, draft, generate, select, edit and finish video while preserving approved decisions.

`video-evaluate`

Diagnose the failure layer and recommend the smallest corrective action.

Evaluation is actionable rather than just a score:

wrong composition      → revise reference frame or affected shot
wrong camera movement  → revise shot plan and affected shot
good shots, poor pace  → revise edit
corrupt media          → fail technical QC

`video-extension-pack-creator`

Author reusable extension packs — a format, genre, style, audience and optional voice casting held together as one production profile — and validate and catalogue them before they ship.

A pack changes the quality target, not the requirement for quality. It ranks below explicit user instruction and approved artifacts.

Execution

The skills decide what production work is needed. Existing tools execute it.

Replicate Agent Skills — default image/video model discovery and execution
ElevenLabs Agent Skills — optional speech, transcription and sound effects
FFmpeg / ffprobe — assembly, inspection and QC
ImageMagick — deterministic image operations
fal.ai / genmedia — optional secondary execution path

Deterministic scripts are TypeScript and target Node.js 24.12+.

Use the least expensive representation that can resolve the current production uncertainty.

Preserve approved decisions and change only what needs to change.

Documentation

Specifications

Process and reports

Skills

Evals

End-to-End Evals

Benchmarks

Benchmark runbook — suites, npm run benchmark:list, preparing and scoring cases, coverage gates

Examples

Level 1 — Control one shot
Level 2 — Make shots work together
Level 3 — Produce a commercial
- Obsidian No. 7
- Arc One
- Apex
- Ember
Level 4 — Direct a short
Level 5 — Run a video campaign
- Aster
- Nova
- Helios
- Atlas One

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

Apache-2.0. See LICENSE.