Kayforkind 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/youtubeskill (shorts | long | both; reach | subs | revenue). - VO / narration (Piper) before mass clip gen.
- Stills —
/localimageheroes/refs; approve likeness. - Picture — Remotion maps / Commons / stock first; queue only needed AI beats.
- AI video —
/cloudvideo(best quality on 4090/5090) or/localvideofor local draft. Identity → I2V with ref. - Avatar (optional) —
/cloudvideo avataron 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 —
/youtubepackaging gate (youtube/folder + UPLOAD_CHECKLIST + GenAI attributes). - Bulk — if producing N≥10 similar units, switch to
/scale: gold → waves →/reviewresults --mode waveeach wave → ledgerdone. 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 |
| CDP / Browser Hub (legacy Flow) | flow-playwright or Browser Hub connect.mjs |
| Broader story→video | story-to-video (override working root to YT pack) |
| Tool research | video-ai-production |
| Cut / concat / zoompan | video-processing-pipeline / ffmpeg-video-editing |
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/
/effectsrender →/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