| name | yt-shorts-flow-director |
| description | Router for YouTube/TikTok Shorts: local TTS, /localimage stills, Remotion assemble, optional cloud GPU, then /reviewresults. Use when the user starts any Shorts or long-form YouTube video job. Flow/Veo only if the user names Flow. Not for local LongCat I2V itself (localvideo) and not for SVG vault or GTM. |
YT Shorts director (cloud + local)
Load this skill first for any Shorts / long-form YouTube video job. Progressive disclosure only — route, then open the sibling skill you need.
Specialists in the route table that are not in this v1 pack live in later ROADMAP packs. After routing, Read the matching installed skill (youtube, remotion-shorts, omni, story-to-video, video-ai-production, Flow/ffmpeg siblings). Slash commands (/youtube, /omni, /localvideo) still apply.
Also load youtube skill (or honor /youtube) for format detect + packaging + Creator-docs gates. Produce path stays here; ship/package path is /youtube.
Operator card: the project's CLOUD_STACK.md / AGENTS.md when present.
Hard defaults
| Rule | Value |
|---|
| Generator | No Flow by default. AI video bursts via /cloudvideo on Vast/RunPod 4090/5090 (ask before rent). Draft/debug: /localvideo on local 3090 Ti |
| Images | Local only — /localimage (ComfyUI). /cloudimage redirects local |
| Narration | Local Piper deep voice; ElevenLabs only if approved |
| Assemble | Remotion + NVENC (--gl angle, concurrency ~6). Vault: rule-007-gpu-video-render.md |
| Orchestrator | /cloudgeneral for full gold-style short/long |
| OpenRouter / paid APIs / GPU rent | Opt-in / ask first; always stop cloud instances when done |
| Ship | keep/ + final/ only — never delete keepers/finals; never ship raw dumps |
| Exit gate | /reviewresults after Remotion/ffmpeg//effects |
| Bulk N≥10 | /scale + per-wave /reviewresults --mode wave — no script-and-ship |
Pack layout (<slug>/)
script.txt storyboard.md scenes.json prompts/ audio/ raw/ keep/ final/
captions*.srt cloud_session.json (when renting)
No-Flow canonical: gold-asia-top-miner/. Legacy Flow packs may still have FLOW_PLAYBOOK.md / flow_project_url.txt.
Production order (audio-first)
- Format + goal — via
/youtube / youtube skill (shorts | long | both; reach | subs | revenue).
- VO / narration (Piper) before mass clip gen.
- Stills —
/localimage heroes/refs; approve likeness.
- Picture — Remotion maps / Commons / stock first; queue only needed AI beats.
- AI video —
/cloudvideo (best quality on 4090/5090) or /localvideo for local draft. Identity → I2V with ref.
- Avatar (optional) —
/cloudvideo avatar on hooks/openers only unless user asks full talking head.
- Assemble — Remotion + NVENC →
final/.
- QA —
/reviewresults (format-aware: Shorts 0–2s; long 0/15/30s + end). Fix → re-render → re-review.
- Package —
/youtube packaging gate (youtube/ folder + UPLOAD_CHECKLIST + GenAI attributes).
- Bulk — if producing N≥10 similar units, switch to
/scale: gold → waves → /reviewresults --mode wave each wave → ledger done. Never generate-all-then-review-once.
Route table (load on demand)
| Need | Skill / command |
|---|
| YouTube Creator ops / packaging (Shorts + long) | youtube · /youtube |
| Full produce / cloud LLM | cloudgeneral · /cloudgeneral |
| Cloud LongCat / avatar | cloudvideo + cloud-gpu · /cloudvideo |
| Google Omni Flash (API video) | omni · /omni — load reference.md; persist interaction_id |
| Image redirect | cloudimage → /localimage |
| Local stills | localimage-stills · /localimage |
| Local LongCat | localvideo · /localvideo |
| Pack / NVENC / never-delete | local-media-router |
| Remotion assemble / captions / GPU render | remotion-video plus local-media-router (NVENC pack finals; this folder does not ship encoder scripts) |
| Quote kinetic captions / archive cuts / transitions | inspire-quote-effects + transition · /effects |
| Exit gate after any render | review-results · /reviewresults |
| Many unique units / mass produce | quality-at-scale · /scale (+ /reviewresults --mode wave) |
| Vehicle / underride / facing QA | vehicle-physics-safety-video |
| Flow UI / harvest (legacy) | google-flow-automation — only if user names Flow |
Parallel jobs
If another agent owns a pack, do not overwrite its raw/ / keep/ / final/ or its cloud_session.json rent. Prefer separate cloud instances per job.
Quality bars (non-negotiable)
- Audio-first; images local
- Likeness: still → I2V; T2V-only faces = FAIL
- Start↔end facing QA for driving packs — rear→front or flipped travel = FAIL
- Unique media per beat; no keeper/final deletes
- Captions match VO
- Prefer keepers + Ken Burns over unstable full clips; no gore
- Cloud: ask before rent; GPU 4090/5090; stop when done
- After any Remotion/ffmpeg/
/effects render → /reviewresults
- N≥10 similar units →
/scale + wave /reviewresults --mode wave (script-and-ship = FAIL)
Legacy Flow (only if user asks)
If the user explicitly wants Google Flow/Veo: load google-flow-automation, one Flow tab per job, Agent-first briefs, Browser Hub CDP http://127.0.0.1:9222 only. Do not treat Flow as the default path.
References
- Operator card: project
CLOUD_STACK.md (if present)
- Parent rules: project
AGENTS.md
