| 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 JSONout — 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.
