Movie Wishlist

movie-wishlist

Fast path for adding a film to lists/movies.md with automatic enrichment by IMDb rating, year, and genre.

This skill is also a reference example of how to build a domain-specific skill on top of a generic skill (lists). If you find yourself adding the same kind of enrichment to other lists (books, games, restaurants…), use this skill as a template — duplicate the file, swap the data source, keep the structure.

When to invoke

Short phrases where the user wants to add a film to watch later:

• "add the movie Dune"
• "add to films to watch — The Gentlemen"
• "in the wishlist — Oppenheimer"
• "new film to watch — Poor Things"
• "in films — The Substance"
• "throw Anatomy of a Fall into films"

This skill takes over the regular lists skill specifically on the add operation for films, because without rating and genre the entry loses its purpose.

Do NOT invoke on:

• "what's in my films", "show the film list" → lists (show).
• "watched The Gentlemen", "mark Dune as watched" → lists (check).
• "remove X from films" → lists (remove).

Algorithm

Step 1. Extract the title

Strip noise words ("watch", "new", "movie", "film", etc.). Keep the title in the user's original language — the user may use a local translation or the English original.

If there are several films separated by commas / "and" — process them one by one, one full algorithm cycle per film.

If the request is too vague to tell what to add — ask one short clarifying question.

Step 2. WebSearch — rating, year, genre

A single query: <title> film IMDb rating genre.

From the search results, extract:

• IMDb rating — a number like 8.5. If the first result does not contain it — try once more: <title> IMDb.
• Release year — for disambiguation (Dune 1984 vs 2021 vs 2024, The Gentlemen 2019 film vs 2024 series, etc.).
• Genre(s) — 1–3 main genres, latin script, lowercase, slash-separated: sci-fi/drama, crime/comedy, horror.

Disambiguation. If the title matches several different films — ask the user briefly ("Dune — 2021 (Villeneuve) or 1984 (Lynch)?"). Do not pick for them.

No rating found — put — in the rating column. Do not invent a number.

No genre found — ask the user one short question. Do not invent.

Step 3. Append a line to lists/movies.md

If the file does not exist yet — create it (see the section below).

Open lists/movies.md, find the bullet list, append:

- <Title> (<Year>) — IMDb <rating>, <genre>

If no rating was found — drop the IMDb X.X segment entirely (do not write —).

Step 4. Confirm to the user

One line: "Added: The Gentlemen (2019) — IMDb 7.8, crime/comedy".

Step 5. Commit + push

1. git add lists/movies.md (and lists/index.md if it was changed during first-time creation).
2. Commit message — no movie title (lists rule):
   • normal add → chore(lists): add movie to wishlist
   • first add with list creation → chore(lists): create movies wishlist
3. git push -u origin <current branch>. On a network error — up to 4 retries with exponential backoff 2/4/8/16s.

If lists/movies.md does not exist yet

Create it with a frontmatter block and an empty bullet list:

---
name: movies
title: Films — to watch
description: Wishlist of films to watch later.
---

# Films — to watch

And add a block to lists/index.md under ## Lists:

### movies.md — Films to watch
**Description:** wishlist of films to watch later. Each entry is enriched with IMDb rating and genre (see the `movie-wishlist` skill).
**Triggers:** "add the movie", "add film to watch", "new film to watch", "in the film wishlist", "in films — X", "throw a movie in".
**Format notes:** item — `- Title (Year) — IMDb X.X, genre`. Genre — 1–3 genres in latin script, slash-separated. Year in parentheses for disambiguation.

Special rules

• IMDb is written in latin script. Not a localized abbreviation; the canonical source is IMDb.
• Do not invent rating or genre. If the search is inconclusive — — for rating, ask for genre.
• One film — one line. If the user adds several at once — several lines, one commit.
• No duplicates. Before appending, check that the same line (normalized title + year) is not already in the list. If it is — report it and do not add.

Retro hook

After adding — before closing the topic — check whether facts about taste in cinema, favorite directors, genre preferences, viewing context surfaced in the dialog. If so — propose memory-retro proactively. Closing silently is a bug.