CD vox-collage
How to turn ONE topic into a Vox-style paper-collage explainer / ad video — a punchy narrated short where each beat is a torn-paper collage POSTER that comes alive, with VO, music and captions. A craft overlay on the standard pipeline: the look is BORN in the image (a rich layered collage poster per beat — text-to-image, 5-part prompt structure, headline baked in), then a FLAT-SAFE "living poster" motion pass animates it, then hard-cut assembly. Supplies the one mandatory beat-map approval gate, the density rule (6+ separate cut-out pieces filling the frame, NOT one sticker on a plain bg), the flat-safe i2v constraint set (ONE smooth 2D camera move, ~5% amplitude, stability anchors on text/layout, banned warp moves) that is WHY seedance works for flat art, and anti-monotony hard cuts (adjacent beats never share a camera move; static reserved for the payoff). Works for ANY topic / product / person + ANY era-matched aesthetic. Ported from vox-director by Alisa Qian. USE WHEN the user asks for a "vox video", "collage explainer", "paper-collage animation", "motion collage", "sticker explainer", "make a collage ad", "torn-paper animated explainer", "scrapbook-style tribute", or wants to turn a topic / product / person into a punchy narrated collage video — even if they don't say "Vox". This is a niche SKILL (generalized craft overlay), not a remix TEMPLATE. For "remix this exact collage video but swap X", use the remix path in docs/skills-vs-templates.md.
How to turn ONE topic into a Vox-style paper-collage explainer / ad video — a punchy narrated short where each beat is a torn-paper collage POSTER that comes…
As a process D 49/100 · Unfinished process — References files that are not bundled: ../carousel/SKILL.md, ../poster/SKILL.md, ../analog-horror-psa/SKILL.md
How to improve
- Shorten the description to 1024 characters.
- The text references files that are not there: add them or drop the references.
- Your own cases (evals/evals.json, 4–6 real requests with expected answers): the full check would then run those instead of a model-drafted suite.
- A spec.yaml with trigger phrases and assertions — a behaviour contract for CI; `skilltest init` writes a template.
Guard findings · 0
✓ No critical or high findings
Files scanned: 3. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- error
description-longdescription is 1474 chars, limit 1024 - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../carousel/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../poster/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../analog-horror-psa/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../../../docs/skills-vs-templates.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../seedance-prompts/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../../../.agents/skills/art-director/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../../../.agents/skills/editor/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: ../hyperframes/SKILL.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: scripts/*.py - note
frontmatter-keyunknown frontmatter key "namespace"
Process rating: all ten parameters 49/100
- 0Tools and files. 9 referenced file(s) missing: ../carousel/SKILL.md, ../poster/SKILL.md, ../analog-horror-psa/SKILL.md
- 0Result and completion. Does not say what the result is
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 30Running it twice. 8 mutating operations with no state check
- 70When it triggers. States when to use, but not when not to
- 70Execution cost. Instruction body is 4693 tokens
- 100Steps. 47 steps
- 100Failures and branches. 1 branches, has a failure section
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Progress reporting. Reports progress
- medium Safety rules and hard prohibitions inside a skill: they belong in the system prompt, here they protect nothing
- low 12 top-level sections: this looks like several domains in one skill
- low The response is described with custom markup (5 tags): a typed call is more reliable
Everything here is measured from the skill text rather than judged by a model, so the numbers are checkable. A parameter weighs more when it is a more common reason for the process to stall.
Quality signals
- +4Description does not say when NOT to use the skill (false activations)
- +3Description length 1474: 120–800 characters recommended
- +3Output format is not stated: the model decides each time
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +5Description quotes 10 example trigger phrases
- +4Structure: 15 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 47 items
- +4Has examples (2 code blocks)
- +4Reference files are cited in the instructions (2 of 2)
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 52.