wtf is ai-short-form-video-skill?

This repository is not a piece of software you install and run. It is a written playbook, called a skill, that tells an AI agent step by step how to make a complete short video for Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, or TikTok, starting from nothing and ending with a finished, published clip. The main file is a markdown document that any AI tool supporting skills or custom instructions can read. There is also a one-click package meant specifically for the Claude desktop app, which you drag into a chat and save, after which you can simply ask for a short-form video. For other AI tools that support the open skill file standard, such as Hermes, OpenAI Codex, Gemini CLI, or Kimi, you place the plain markdown file into that tool's skills folder instead. A copy of the original, unedited version of the playbook is also included for reference. The skill itself does not generate video, voice, or music on its own. It coordinates a handful of outside services that you need your own accounts for: Replicate for generating video scenes and character art, ElevenLabs for AI-generated voiceover, an optional music generation service for background music, an optional social publishing tool, and FFmpeg, which is free, for assembling everything into a final video file. The playbook walks through nine phases in order: gathering brand details, writing the script, generating voiceover, creating character art, generating video scenes, adding music, editing, adding synced captions, and finally delivering or publishing the result. It includes example prompts, FFmpeg commands, and notes on common problems the authors ran into, such as quirks in the AI models, caption timing issues, and audio mixing problems.