video-talk-to-essay SKILL.md skillA
video-talk-to-essay from swyxio/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add swyxio/skills/video-talk-to-essay@git:20261103.1acf58fPins git:20261103.1acf58f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- swyxio/skills
- Path
video-talk-to-essay/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- git:20261103.1acf58f, committed Nov 3, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 27, 2026
- Size
- 12,774 bytes
- Repository stars
- 194
- License
- MIT
Turn a recorded talk and transcript into a source-grounded technical article readers can follow alongside the recording, with verified links, useful code, and selective screenshots or explanatory visuals. Use for transcript-to-essay rewrites, illustrated reading versions, and their generation/review pipelines.
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
# Video talk to essay Write a technical article people can read alongside the talk, not a polished report about what the speaker argued. Preserve the recording's progression, mechanisms and personality; improve the explanation without inventing evidence. Keep detailed provenance private and the reader experience uncluttered. Apply `swyx-writing` as the shared voice and editing layer and `research-grounded-writing` for external research, attribution, and claim verification. This skill owns the transcript, chronology, timestamp, code, and visual rules specific to recorded talks. ## Inputs and boundaries Obtain the source video URL or local video, transcript, and any authoritative title, speaker, event, and date metadata. Prefer timestamped segments containing `startMs`, `endMs`, speaker label, and text. Use available video descriptions and metadata to seed research, especially project, slide and notebook links. Fetch missing metadata separately from the recording so research need not wait for a full video download. - If the user supplies a transcript, use it. Preserve raw input; do not silently substitute captions or overwrite transcription errors. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add swyxio/skills/video-talk-to-essay@sha256:ff6f145650d9a408The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261103.1acf58f, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_jjztzzwgbanherqc)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Aug 27, 2026 and Nov 3, 2026, about one every 14 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261103.1acf58f latest | 2026-11-03 | 1acf58f | 12,774 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260912.6ee419c | 2026-09-12 | 6ee419c | 11,057 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260828.670ce80 | 2026-08-28 | 670ce80 | 10,799 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260828.4aee9fb | 2026-08-28 | 4aee9fb | 9,699 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260827.32c4a11 | 2026-08-27 | 32c4a11 | 9,143 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260827.901589c | 2026-08-27 | 901589c | 9,199 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (12774 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
swyxio/skills · 194 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-03 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_jjztzzwgbanherqc GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=swyxio/skills/video-talk-to-essay GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ff6f145650d9a408e64d85452cf87d561398e7ff0ee067fbaef758c4a71382bd
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