videoexpress-prompt SKILL.md skillA

videoexpress-prompt from ratava/videoexpress-scripting-skill is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add ratava/videoexpress-scripting-skill/videoexpress-prompt@v1.2

Pins v1.2 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
ratava/videoexpress-scripting-skill
Path
claude-prompt/skills/videoexpress-prompt/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
v1.2, committed Oct 30, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 13, 2026
Size
14,568 bytes
Repository stars
11
License
a license file GitHub does not identify

A question-by-question wizard that writes one paste-ready VideoExpress (VE) 3.5+ prompt, or a matched pair - a start image, a video clip, or an image plus its clip - or improves an image or clip prompt the user already has. Walks through look and style (with links to the Creative mode style catalogue), what happens, dialogue, sound, camera, light and image, and negatives, applying the same prompt rules, multishot format, styles, Consistent Character advice and lip-sync methods as the…

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

# VideoExpress Prompt

A wizard for **one shot**: a start-image prompt, a video-clip prompt, or an image-and-clip pair, written to the same rules as the VideoExpress Scripting skill. No project, no bible document, no prompt pack. Each step asks about one aspect of the prompt, suggests an answer, and moves on.

Two facts drive every prompt:

1. **The model renders nouns, not intentions.** Every noun, count, simile and stray token is a candidate to appear on screen.
2. **Each generation only knows what it is given.** A clip sees one still image plus the prompt. Anything not visible in the opening frame or described in the prompt will be invented.

## Read before writing

The rules live in `references/`, shared word for word with VideoExpress Scripting. This file doesn't restate them.

- **Always:** `references/multishot-template.md` (tag order, template, worked example) and `references/prompt-rules.md` (how the engine reads a prompt; the failure → cause → rule table).
- **Step 1, Look:** `references/styles/README.md` (index, image-prompt recipe, video pattern), then the one style sheet chosen. Characters, start images and Consistent Character: `references/bible.md`.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add ratava/videoexpress-scripting-skill/videoexpress-prompt@sha256:59ba76e64fcde415

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.2, 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 5 versions of this file, between Oct 13, 2026 and Oct 30, 2026, about one every 4 days.

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v1.2 latest2026-10-30 0e30724 14,568 BA view · diff
v1.12026-10-22 c1016dd 13,869 BA view · diff
v1.12026-10-22 abb1b99 13,684 BA view · diff
v1.02026-10-13 0ac6b8a 11,309 BA view · diff
v1.02026-10-13 9b4d8bb 11,334 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 (14568 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

ratava/videoexpress-scripting-skill · 11 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_rfs5qydcuq5bbqdk
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ratava/videoexpress-scripting-skill/videoexpress-prompt
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/59ba76e64fcde415b49aa46219a9dd43bb0d7b49d0197a53fe9240e49fafff97

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