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Agent skill

House Style

by samuelgursky in samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp

The editorial and finishing preferences this project's work is judged against — cut rhythm, shot selection, delivery conventions, and the corrections that have already been given.

MITAuto-check passedAgent Workflows

Install House Style

skills CLI
$ npx skills add samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp --skill house-style -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp house-style --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/samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/house-style .claude/skills/house-style && 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
house-style
GitHub stars
3.5k
Token cost
~736 tokens
SKILL.md length
350 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
14
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

The editorial and finishing preferences this project's work is judged against — cut rhythm, shot selection, delivery conventions, and the corrections that have already been given.

  • Agent Workflows work in your project
  • SKILL.md covers The capture protocol, Pacing and rhythm, Shot selection and Cut points, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

House Style is an agent skill from samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp. The editorial and finishing preferences this project's work is judged against — cut rhythm, shot selection, delivery conventions, and the corrections that have already been given. Load before assembling, restructuring, or refining any cut so the same note does not have to be given twice.

Its SKILL.md is about 740 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Agent Workflows. It works with Model Context Protocol. The repository describes itself as: MCP server integration for DaVinci Resolve Studio. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Agent Workflows work in your project

Example prompts

  • “/house-style”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 8911bd2. 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

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    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

House Style loads about 736 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 75 tokens; SKILL.md has 350 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~75
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~736

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); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp at commit 8911bd2, republished under its MIT licence (© samuelgursky). 350 words, ~736 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/house-style/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
house-style
description
The editorial and finishing preferences this project's work is judged against — cut rhythm, shot selection, delivery conventions, and the corrections that have already been given. Load before assembling, restructuring, or refining any cut so the same note does not have to be given twice.
user-invocable
false

House Style

The craft guides in docs/guides/ describe editing in general. This file describes how this editor wants it done — the accumulated, specific corrections that would otherwise have to be repeated every session.

Read it before any edit task. Append to it whenever a correction is given.

The capture protocol

This file is only worth what gets written into it. When the user corrects an editorial decision — rejects a cut, changes a shot choice, adjusts a duration, says "not like that" — do not just fix it. Fix it, then add the rule here.

A useful entry has three parts:

  • The rule, stated as an instruction, not an observation.
  • Why, in the user's terms — what it was in service of.
  • The trap, if there is one: what makes it easy to get wrong.

Write rules that are falsifiable. "Cut on motion" is a rule; "make it feel dynamic" is not. If a correction is one-off and situational, it does not belong here — this file is for what generalizes.

When an entry turns out to be wrong or too broad, edit it. A stale rule confidently followed is worse than no rule.

Pacing and rhythm

<!-- Hold lengths, when to cut early, what "too long" means for this material. -->

Not yet captured.

Shot selection

<!-- What earns a place in the cut; what gets dropped even when it's a good shot. -->

Not yet captured.

Cut points

<!-- Cut on motion vs on rest, handles, how much air before and after a beat. -->

Not yet captured.

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Structure and openings

<!-- How a piece starts, what the first frames have to do, how it lands. -->

Not yet captured.

Rejected by default

Things not to add unless explicitly asked. Seeded from the rough-cut deliverable contract in the resolve-rough-cut skill, which exists because this work gets thrown away:

  • Titles, captions, and text cards
  • Transitions (an assembly is hard cuts)
  • Effects and speed ramps
  • Music beds
  • Grading on a cut that was asked for as an assembly

Delivery conventions

<!-- Aspect ratios, timeline naming, versioning, where renders go. -->

Not yet captured.

Where personal grading taste lives

Colour and look preferences are not kept here — this file travels with the repository. Grading taste lives in the user-level colorist-assistant skill and in persistent memory. Load those for look selection, grade transfer, and the Resolve API traps around them.

If any entry below would be specific to one person rather than to this project's work, it belongs in the user-level skill instead, and this file should be gitignored rather than committed.

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

Files

Just SKILL.md in .agents/skills/house-style of samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 8911bd2

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Questions about House Style

What does House Style do?

The editorial and finishing preferences this project's work is judged against — cut rhythm, shot selection, delivery conventions, and the corrections that have already been given. House Style is an agent skill from samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp. The editorial and finishing preferences this project's work is judged against — cut rhythm, shot selection, delivery conventions, and the corrections that have already been given.

When should I use House Style?

House Style fits situations like: agent Workflows work in your project.

How do I install House Style in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp --skill house-style -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/house-style in samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp) into .claude/skills/house-style in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install House Style in Codex?

Run `npx skills add samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp --skill house-style -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/house-style in samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp) into .agents/skills/house-style in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use House Style 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 samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp --skill house-style -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/house-style, .gemini/skills/house-style, .github/skills/house-style and .opencode/skills/house-style in your project.

What does House Style need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: House Style is instructions for the agent only.

Does House Style 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 House Style 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. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does House Style use?

House Style 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 House Style use?

About 736 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.9k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to House Style?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with House Style: MCP Server Builder (anthropics/skills, 180k stars), MCP Server Builder (shareAI-lab/learn-claude-code, 78k stars), MCP Integration for Plugins (anthropics/claude-plugins-official, 38k stars) and MemPalace Memory Search (MemPalace/mempalace, 60k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains House Style?

samuelgursky (a GitHub user) maintains it in samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp, which has 3,461 GitHub stars. The repository holds 14 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 10, 2026.

Source: samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.