VideoEssay
Turns content plus a stance into a video essay narrated by the DA, any post, idea or...
Install
npx skills add danielmiessler/LifeOS --skill VideoEssay -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- danielmiessler/LifeOS19.7k
- Category
- Design
- Updated
- 8d ago
- License
- MIT
- Context cost
- Mediumabout 3,000 tokens
- Runs scripts
- Yes, review before use
What it does
Turns content plus a stance into a video essay narrated by the DA, any post, idea or feature plus a length into a short DA-narrated explainer video, or the author's own audio reading of their blog post (a recording or their voice clone) into a finished video of that post, with scripted visuals rendered on HyperFrames, presence layer, rendered and read back. USE WHEN video essay, explainer video, short video about this post, N-minute video of my blog post, make a video about this, respond to this video, argue against this in a video, debate this, video response, DA video, narrated video, turn this essay into a video, react to this interview, make a video from my audio, I recorded myself reading the post, turn this post into a video, video from my voice clone, audio to video. NOT FOR the user's camera footage or clips (Video), audio-only podcast cuts (Video), one-off animation (HyperFrames).
VideoEssay
Contents: Ideal State · Intent Routing · Tools · Data & Config · Quality loop · Gotchas · Examples
The DA's own video format, in two modes, each a fully automated production that proves itself before the user sees it. Essay mode argues first, then renders. Voice mode (run.json mode: "voice") turns the author's post, read by their recording, their voice clone or the DA reading their exact words (run.json narrator recorded | clone | da), into a video of the real post page scrolling with the spoken sentence highlighted, inserts directed from what the post argues (LIFEOS/TOOLS/VideoMeaning: MeaningMap, Direction, a two-vendor plan review), and the reader's portrait in the corner badge (the author's, or the DA's on a DA-read run).
Ideal State
- An essay run argues before it renders: a linted, steelmanned
Essay.mdwith verbatim, correctly attributed quotes reaches the user at the checkpoint (unless the ask skips it), and only then becomesScript.jsonand a render. - A voice run narrates only the author's own words, its page reads like the live post, and every page highlight and insert is timed to the paragraph being spoken.
- Every render reads itself back before anyone sees it:
Out/verify.jsonall green, and the frames and theOut/review/studio pass read. - The mp4 and thumbnail reach
~/Downloads/<slug>/only throughDeliver.ts, after a passing ArtDirection critique and Proof receipt on those exact bytes. - Every run stops in review state; nothing uploads from this skill. Publishing is the user's separate call through
Video.
