shorts-factory

DEPRECATED — merged into the `ultimate-short` skill. The pacing speed-up, fast cuts, scene-matched SFX, and the gameplay split-screen "brainrot" stack are now documented in ultimate-short/SKILL.md ("FINISHING LAYER"). The driver scripts (recut.py, stack_gameplay.py) still live in THIS folder and are still invoked by path, so existing commands keep working. Use ultimate-short for any new work.

The ONE end-to-end skill for a <=20s (or ~30s explainer) vertical short — GENERATE the transcript (viral hook, high-CPM optional), VALIDATE it before producing, prepare a shot-by-shot PLAN, act as DIRECTOR, RENDER (bespoke code-drawn Remotion SVG explainer = default house style; Z-Image stills / HyperFrames / Three.js / Chatterbox VO / dynamic karaoke captions), then FINISH with the punchy-recut pacing + scene-matched SFX pass and optional gameplay split-screen stack. Absorbs the old punchy-recut skill — plus a /loop "refine until perfect" mode that self-paces with min-3/max-10 rubric-gated iterations across every process (hook, script, validation, visuals, sound, captions, pacing) until each clears an objective quality bar. Use for "make the ultimate short", "write a viral 10s script", "/loop refine until perfect", "build/animate a short from this script", faster pacing / fast cuts / add SFX / sound design, or a gameplay "brainrot" stack.