Video Script — guide skill for stories & short dramas

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Write the video script before anything is made: one promise, beats joined by but/therefore, every line sized to its seconds and checked by a script.

What it does

Left alone, an agent writes the most probable script: a "have you ever wondered" opener, three adjectives, a narrator describing the picture, a vague happy ending. This skill makes it write the script first and measure it: a brief and a facts file in; one script table out (time, spoken line, on-screen text, visual, sound), three hooks out of ten, and check_script.py, which flags lines too long for their seconds, late hooks, shots longer than the video model makes well, numbers not in the facts and AI-sounding phrases. The rules come from Parker & Stone, Mamet, Sorkin, McKee, Pixar, NPR, MrBeast's production doc, Jenny Hoyos, Kallaway, Ogilvy, Google ABCD, TikTok, Peter Cohan, April Dunford, MKBHD, the FTC and micro-drama writers, plus 320 checked X posts. Six structures with one example script each (but/therefore, question ladder, problem-agitate-solve, result first, misconception first, what is / what could be), variations for demo and launch videos, product reviews, ads and UGC, social shorts and short-form drama, and a loop for testing and improving the skill. In a blind test on six briefs, two judges scored scripts written with it 7.5 out of 10 against 6.4 without it. How many words fit in a voiceover: at 150 words a minute, 15 s holds about 37 words, 30 s about 75, 60 s about 150. For a short drama or micro-drama episode: a cold open on the conflict in 3 seconds, one beat per episode and a cliffhanger button; the script then becomes the storyboard, one spoken line per shot. To pick the best of several scripts, references/judge.md ranks them with an LLM judge without position, length or self-preference bias: yes/no gates written from the brief, then pairwise comparisons in both orders with counted, quoted failures.

Use when

Not for

Install

Example output

https://s3.varg.ai/files/4325c578-378d-4c43-ae53-3cc3218df1ea/file_a09895414952.webp — A script from the skill in varg's look: the Post-it Note in 30 s, every line sized to its seconds, checked with 0 fail and 0 warn. (credit: varg)

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