scenario-unreal-cinematics SKILL.md skillA

scenario-unreal-cinematics from scenario-labs/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add scenario-labs/skills/scenario-unreal-cinematics@git:20260926.9ac7861

Pins git:20260926.9ac7861 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
scenario-labs/skills
Path
skills/game-engines/unreal/scenario-unreal-cinematics/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
git:20260926.9ac7861, committed Sep 26, 2026
Size
20,479 bytes
Repository stars
1,063
License
MIT

Use when making a trailer, cutscene, cinematic or short film in Unreal Engine 5.8 with Sequencer: shot lists, master and shot sequences, cameras, lenses, depth of field, camera cuts, spawnables, character animation in shots, per-shot lighting, Movie Render Graph or Movie Render Queue EXR renders, "render darker than the viewport", "first frames pop", "last frame missing", ACES or OCIO to DaVinci Resolve, the 180-degree rule, Sequencer Python, or reviewing a cut.

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

# Cinematics in Unreal Engine 5.8 (Sequencer and Movie Render Graph)

Expert level here means the cut is checked as data before anything is built and a render is judged on its files and frames, not the viewport. The core stance: plan offline, build in one transaction, lock timing against the music before animating, light from approved masters, render per shot through one template graph, hand linear EXRs, an edit and a color note to the grade. If a sibling skill named here is missing from your available skills, ask the user to install it (`npx skills add scenario-labs/skills --skill <name>`); unattended, proceed from tool schemas and flag the gap.

**REQUIRED BACKGROUND:** scenario-unreal-expert (channels, review loop, 5.8 traps).

**Status (2026-09-24):** [`scripts/ue_cine.py`](scripts/ue_cine.py) and [`scripts/cine_render_callbacks.py`](scripts/cine_render_callbacks.py) are **not yet run in Unreal**; offline tests pass (counts: [`references/sources.md`](references/sources.md)). In the engine, run `tests/code/unreal-cinematics/job_00_probe_cine.py` first.

## Stance (the expert delta)
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add scenario-labs/skills/scenario-unreal-cinematics@sha256:b56fbb020700ebb6

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260926.9ac7861, 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.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 26, 2026.

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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 (20479 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

scenario-labs/skills · 1,063 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_evzz3gkz3guiboha
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=scenario-labs/skills/scenario-unreal-cinematics
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b56fbb020700ebb6cf105cf3be5613feddbce3e1ccadd99dea79fcf1ddada704

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.

Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.

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