emotion-performance-director SKILL.md skillA
emotion-performance-director from kangarooking/director-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add kangarooking/director-skills/emotion-performance-director@git:20261007.f3d8df9Pins git:20261007.f3d8df9 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
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- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- kangarooking/director-skills
- Path
emotion-performance-director/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
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- git:20261007.f3d8df9, committed Oct 7, 2026
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- 266
- License
- MIT
Use when the user wants to design, rewrite, refine, or vary emotional acting prompts for live-action AI video characters. Translate abstract emotions, dialogue, subtext, and scene context into concise, observable, temporally ordered micro-performance directions. Preserve the user's existing character, scene, camera, and dialogue requirements unless they explicitly ask to change them. Do not use for general story writing, shot design, action choreography, or visual asset design when emotional…
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
# Emotion Performance Director ## Purpose Turn abstract emotional intent into AI-video-executable human performance. The skill does not merely label emotion. It describes **how emotion becomes visible and audible through behavior over time**. Core formula: > **Subtext → key performance signals → temporal order → afterbeat** Where performance signals are selected only as needed from: > gaze / breath / face / body / voice Do not force every channel into every prompt. ## Core Principles 1. **Subtext drives performance.** Infer what the character wants, resists, hides, or cannot fully control. Do not generate from the emotion label alone. 2. **Describe observable behavior, not abstract emotion words.** Prefer “her jaw tightens and her voice drops” over “she becomes very angry.” 3. **Use the fewest signals that make the emotion legible.** Normally select 2–4 dominant signals from gaze, breath, face, body, and voice. If removing a gesture does not weaken the performance, remove it. 4. **Emotion unfolds in time.** Organize the performance as: - before the line - during the line - after the line 5. **Preserve one psychological cause.** …
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How to install
mdr add kangarooking/director-skills/emotion-performance-director@sha256:19bdb8ffe3a3d744The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261007.f3d8df9, 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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The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 7, 2026.
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Source
kangarooking/director-skills · 266 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_g3txboytryq5nzgx GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=kangarooking/director-skills/emotion-performance-director GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/19bdb8ffe3a3d74403be9a8e76e7965a20829a917ad3c076fd4a81664fe5489c
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