Video Script

${var}, Selector: <source> [--minutes N].

• repo:<owner/repo> → script about that repo's latest update wave (README + recent releases/commits decide what "the update" is).
• <url> → script about that product page / doc / announcement.
• <topic> (anything else non-empty) → script about that topic; research it first.
• empty → pick the most script-worthy update from the last 7 days of memory/logs/ (a shipped feature, a release, a milestone with receipts). If nothing qualifies, log VIDEO_SCRIPT_NO_SOURCE, send no notification, and exit clean.
• --minutes N anywhere → runtime target (default 4; ~150 spoken words per minute).

Examples: "repo:aeonfun/aeon --minutes 6", "https://example.com/launch", "our new payments integration --minutes 3".

Today is ${today}. Write a recording-ready video script. No placeholders, every number, address, and date in it must be verified this run.

Shared preamble

1. Read memory/MEMORY.md and the last 7 days of memory/logs/, know what has already been covered, and don't script the same story twice.
2. If a soul/ directory exists, read soul/SOUL.md and soul/STYLE.md for voice calibration. The script is the operator talking to a smart friend, if soul/ is empty, default to terse, direct, first-person.
3. Parse ${var} per the selector above into source + minutes.

Step 1, Research and verify (never skip)

The format is called receipts-first because the receipts are real:

• Fetch the live source now (WebFetch / gh api for repos, README and recent releases/commits). Do not write numbers, counts, addresses, or dates from memory.
• Collect concrete verifiable artifacts: contract addresses, live dashboards, version numbers, dollar figures, dates. These become the cold open and the Receipts section.
• Every claim you could NOT verify either gets cut or becomes a checkbox in "Verify before recording".

Step 2, Find the angle