Agent skill

Shortform Production

by ericosiu in ericosiu/ai-marketing-skills

Produce readable vertical shorts with evidence-based B-roll, three opening treatments, editorial review, and authorized Metricool API delivery.

MITAuto-check passedWriting & Content

Install Shortform Production

skills CLI
$ npx skills add ericosiu/ai-marketing-skills --skill shortform-production -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install ericosiu/ai-marketing-skills shortform-production --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ericosiu/ai-marketing-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/shortform-production .claude/skills/shortform-production && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
shortform-production
GitHub stars
3.6k
Token cost
~701 tokens
SKILL.md length
286 words
Files
18 (incl. scripts, references)
Skills in repo
21
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Produce readable vertical shorts with evidence-based B-roll, three opening treatments, editorial review, and authorized Metricool API delivery.

  • Works in 5 steps: Edit: Read V5 style and creative… → Experiment: Produce three opening… → Review: Read the bundled rubric, judge… → …
  • Shortform edits
  • SKILL.md covers Preamble, Choose the work and Deliver
  • Runs Python scripts from its folder; calls python3

What it does

Shortform Production is an agent skill from ericosiu/ai-marketing-skills. Produce readable vertical shorts with evidence-based B-roll, three opening treatments, editorial review, and authorized Metricool API delivery. Use for shortform edits, captions, hook experiments, or scheduling approved clips.

Its SKILL.md is about 700 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 21 other files, including scripts and reference files (for example `README.md`, `agents/openai.yaml` and `profile.example.json`).

It sits in Writing & Content, covering Copy editing and proofreading. The repository describes itself as: Open-source AI marketing skills — growth experiments, sales pipeline, content ops, outbound, SEO, and finance automation. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Shortform edits
  • Hook experiments
  • Scheduling approved clips

Example prompts

  • “/shortform-production”

Requirements

  • Python 3

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Edit: Read V5 style and creative formats. Use the named source and timestamped transcript. Preserve credentials, claim qualifiers, natural…
  2. Experiment: Produce three opening treatments for one clip. Choose one before rendering the full edit unless complete variants were…
  3. Review: Read the bundled rubric, judge prompt, reference requirements, and scorecard schema. Apply review requirements. Report missing…
  4. Caption or delivery: Read API delivery. Inspect the actual final video and CTA. Do not re-render an approved upload to match production…
  5. Results: Read review and learning. Record missing metrics as null. One post cannot establish a winning style.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 8088e1a. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Ships 1 file in scripts/ (Python, from the files we listed), which the agent can run.

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • python3

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Shortform Production loads about 701 tokens when it runs, and up to ~8.1k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 62 tokens; SKILL.md has 286 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~62
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~701
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~8.1k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from ericosiu/ai-marketing-skills at commit 8088e1a, republished under its MIT licence (© ericosiu). 286 words, ~701 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/shortform-production/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 17 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
shortform-production
description
Produce readable vertical shorts with evidence-based B-roll, three opening treatments, editorial review, and authorized Metricool API delivery. Use for shortform edits, captions, hook experiments, or scheduling approved clips.

Shortform Production

Keep the visual style consistent. Change the storytelling to suit the source. An experiment is a hypothesis, not a proven retention gain.

Preamble

When available, use the repository's version check and telemetry initializer:

bash
python3 telemetry/version_check.py 2>/dev/null || true
python3 telemetry/telemetry_init.py 2>/dev/null || true

Remote telemetry requires opt-in. Never log content, paths, account details, or credentials.

Choose the work

  1. Edit: Read V5 style and creative formats. Use the named source and timestamped transcript. Preserve credentials, claim qualifiers, natural speech, and the CTA. Inventory real assets before designing inserts. Use an available renderer; this package supplies editorial rules and delivery tools.
  2. Experiment: Produce three opening treatments for one clip. Choose one before rendering the full edit unless complete variants were requested. Do not automatically publish near-duplicates.
  3. Review: Read the bundled rubric, judge prompt, reference requirements, and scorecard schema. Apply review requirements. Report missing evidence; never invent a score.
  4. Caption or delivery: Read API delivery. Inspect the actual final video and CTA. Do not re-render an approved upload to match production defaults. Use the API for Metricool.
  5. Results: Read review and learning. Record missing metrics as null. One post cannot establish a winning style.

Installation does not authorize publishing, new accounts, automations, purchases, or public releases. Existing explicit task authorization is sufficient; do not ask twice.

Deliver

Include artifacts relevant to the requested mode: source hash and transcript; claims and asset provenance; hook hypothesis and shot list; versioned master and SRT; cover, title, caption and CTA; review evidence; verified delivery receipt; and supported performance observations.

Keep credentials and private receipts outside the repository. Preserve raw media and previous renders. Report review candidate, scheduled, publishing, or published only with matching evidence.

Use the next-batch plan to turn these rules into a production cycle.

© ericosiu, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 17 other files (scripts, references) in shortform-production of ericosiu/ai-marketing-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • .gitignore
  • README.md
  • agents/openai.yaml
  • profile.example.json
  • references/creative-formats.md
  • references/eval/judge-prompt.md
  • references/eval/references.json
  • references/eval/rubric.json
  • references/eval/scorecard.schema.json
  • references/metricool.md
  • references/next-batch.md
  • references/review-and-learning.md
  • references/v5-style.md
  • requirements.txt
  • scripts/metricool.py
  • tests
  • … and 1 more

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 8088e1a

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Questions about Shortform Production

What does Shortform Production do?

Produce readable vertical shorts with evidence-based B-roll, three opening treatments, editorial review, and authorized Metricool API delivery. Shortform Production is an agent skill from ericosiu/ai-marketing-skills. Produce readable vertical shorts with evidence-based B-roll, three opening treatments, editorial review, and authorized Metricool API delivery.

When should I use Shortform Production?

Shortform Production fits situations like: shortform edits; hook experiments; scheduling approved clips.

How do I install Shortform Production in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add ericosiu/ai-marketing-skills --skill shortform-production -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (shortform-production in ericosiu/ai-marketing-skills) into .claude/skills/shortform-production in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Shortform Production in Codex?

Run `npx skills add ericosiu/ai-marketing-skills --skill shortform-production -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (shortform-production in ericosiu/ai-marketing-skills) into .agents/skills/shortform-production in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Shortform Production in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add ericosiu/ai-marketing-skills --skill shortform-production -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/shortform-production, .gemini/skills/shortform-production, .github/skills/shortform-production and .opencode/skills/shortform-production in your project.

What does Shortform Production need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Shortform Production needs Python for the scripts in its folder and the command-line tools its instructions call (python3). Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Shortform Production access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Shortform Production safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.

What licence does Shortform Production use?

Shortform Production is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Shortform Production use?

About 701 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.8k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 7.4k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Shortform Production?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Shortform Production: User-Facing Text Cleanup (guillaumemeyer/watermarks-remover, 24k stars), Story Multi-Perspective Review (zenstory-ai/oh-story-claudecode, 7.4k stars), Chinese Text Humanizer (op7418/Humanizer-zh, 19k stars) and Baoyu Translate (JimLiu/baoyu-skills, 27k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Shortform Production?

ericosiu (a GitHub user) maintains it in ericosiu/ai-marketing-skills, which has 3,620 GitHub stars. The repository holds 21 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 22, 2026.

Source: ericosiu/ai-marketing-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.