clone-video-ad SKILL.md skillA

clone-video-ad from novoads/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add novoads/agent-skills/clone-video-ad@git:20261017.da488ac

Pins git:20261017.da488ac in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
novoads/agent-skills
Path
skills/clone-video-ad/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
11
Latest version
git:20261017.da488ac, committed Oct 17, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 13, 2026
Size
54,248 bytes
Repository stars
28
License
MIT

Clones a VIDEO ad end to end for a different product or offer, on the Novoads API. The deliverable is a finished rendered MP4 — the WHOLE ad, not its opening, and not a template. Reads the source's style, pacing, camera work, dialogue and tone, adapts it into a Seedance 2.0 prompt, prices it, renders it, files the source beside the clones and diffs each clip's transcript against the approved script. Use for "clone this video ad", "recreate this video for my brand…

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Clone ad — Seedance 2.0

Clone an existing video ad for a different product. You analyze the source frame by frame,
transcribe the dialogue, extract the visual style and beat structure, then generate a new
`seedance-2.0` video adapted for the user's product.

**How this differs from analyze-video:**

- **analyze-video** → the output is a reusable markdown formula saved to `prompt-library/`.
- **clone-video-ad** → the output is a rendered video delivered to the user.

Steps 1 to 3 are the same analysis in both. The only charge in that half is the transcript
in step 2 — a fraction of a credit, and free on a re-read of the same source. Everything
from step 9 on is the real spend.

## If `shared/` is missing from disk

`references/solo-install.md` — what a solo install lacks (`craft.md`, `caption-video`, the
b-roll scripts, `check-novoads-env.sh`, `MASTER_CONTEXT.md`) and how to fetch each. Skip it
inside the full pack.

## Read order

This skill links outward more than any other here, and its two biggest targets fan out again
(22 and 10 further links). **A file reached through another file gets skimmed, not read**, so
open these four directly, in order. Everything else is lookup.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add novoads/agent-skills/clone-video-ad@sha256:82f60d036200cafb

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261017.da488ac, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

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[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_77xy45v6abt4ekuj.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_77xy45v6abt4ekuj)

3 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 11 versions of this file, between Aug 13, 2026 and Oct 17, 2026, about one every 6 days.

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git:20260813.9f290362026-08-13 9f29036 53,156 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (54248 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

novoads/agent-skills · 28 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-17 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_77xy45v6abt4ekuj
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=novoads/agent-skills/clone-video-ad
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/82f60d036200cafb63792d49136f5092ccbf29af30090b053c7b7e7c2ec2142f

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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