pick-mood

name	pick-mood
description	Pick the best `./songs/<mood>/` folder for a clip's background music. Reads the clip transcript and asks Claude to choose one mood label from the live list of mood subfolders. Emits a one-line mood string for bg-music to use as its category argument. Falls back to "ALL SONGS" on any failure.
allowed-tools	Bash
user-invocable	true

pick-mood

Background music shouldn't be random. This skill reads a clip's transcript and picks one of the existing ./songs/<mood>/ folders to source from. The mood list is generated live from the filesystem — add or rename a folder under ./songs/ and the next run will offer it.

Invoke

.claude/skills/pick-mood/pick-mood.sh <clip_transcript.json> <out.txt>

• input — clip-local word-timed transcript JSON
• out — written with a single line: the chosen mood folder name (or ALL SONGS as a safe fallback)

How

• Lists subdirectories of $SHORTS_ROOT/songs/ (skipping dotfiles).
• Builds a prompt with the available moods and the clip transcript.
• Calls claude -p --output-format text.
• Parser strips quoting/whitespace and validates the reply against the live mood list. Any miss → ALL SONGS.

Caveats

• All songs in the library are instrumental, so the mood label is judged purely on emotional/energetic fit with the clip's content — not lyrics.
• Cached by transcript mtime.