video-moodboard SKILL.md skillA
video-moodboard from varghq/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add varghq/skills/video-moodboard@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- varghq/skills
- Path
video-moodboard/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Nov 4, 2026
- First version recorded
- Nov 4, 2026
- Size
- 12,011 bytes
- Repository stars
- 21
- License
- MIT
Build a moodboard that AI image and video models actually follow, in the order that matters most, and prove it on stills before any video is paid for. Ranked from a 48-still test, 6,086 X posts and 14 official prompt guides: references, light, subject lock, framing, palette, motion, texture, type, sound. Every line is a number or a named thing (hex, Kelvin, lens mm, % of frame, film stock, font, seconds), never "cinematic". Writes moodboard.md and a visual board.html, checks test stills line…
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 moodboard A moodboard for an AI video is not a mood. It is a short list of lines a model can obey and a person can check: where the light comes from, which five colours, which lens, which film stock, which font, which camera move. Write it that way and the model follows; write "cinematic, moody, premium" and it falls back to its default look. What the data says (full write-up: https://claude.ai/artifact/5ptKSPYFzvd7turkZevfHZ): - **A board works.** In a blind test of 48 stills on Nano Banana 2.1 and Seedream 5 Pro, the full board made frames 1.0 point more film-like (1–10) than no board, and every line lifted its own match by 31–73 points. - **Light is the realism lever.** It was the only line that made frames look more like real film when written (+0.50, p 0.04). - **Invented palettes cost realism.** The hex line was obeyed best (89%), but frames looked less like film with an invented palette (−0.67, p 0.03). Take hex from a real reference frame. - **Adjectives cost saves.** On X, posts built on "cinematic", "8k", "stunning" got 31% fewer saves; posts with hex codes got 1.58× and posts naming fonts 2.19× (n = 4,722, controlled for views, age, media, length). …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add varghq/skills/video-moodboard@sha256:450753cd4c27d7c2The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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_qc46o6we2lo3xv4u)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, all committed on Nov 4, 2026.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-11-04 | 3a48873 | 12,011 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-11-04 | 5b4f728 | 11,676 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-11-04 | 76ad28c | 11,622 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 (12011 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
varghq/skills · 21 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_qc46o6we2lo3xv4u GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=varghq/skills/video-moodboard GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/450753cd4c27d7c2655a0c25a0885e4fe59540eb297b431363316dac1c02bb60
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.