# The prompt

First give your agent the cover-story skill (paste the skill text and ask it to save it as a skill). Then replace everything in
[BRACKETS] below and paste it in.

**Tip:** use any AI tools you like for the images, voice, music and sound effects; the skill works the same with all of them. Your own
photos work best for the covers, and the film works with no voice. If you'd rather not set up separate AI accounts and API keys, HYVIRAL
(optional) is one way to get them behind one connection (hyviral.com; in Claude.ai → Customize → Connectors → add
`https://api.hyviral.com/mcp`).

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Use the cover-story skill to make a vertical video for [PLATFORM: Instagram Reels / TikTok / YouTube Shorts].

- **The cover star:** [SUBJECT - e.g. "my 20-year-old coat", "our shop's oven", "me"]
- **The history:** [HISTORY - the eras, milestones or low point to cover, or "you write it"]
- **The message:** [MESSAGE - what it would say in an interview, or "you write it"]
- **Pictures:** [PICTURES - "my photos, attached", or "generate them with the AI tools below"]
- **Magazine name:** [MASTHEAD - one short word, not a real magazine, or "you choose"]
- **Length:** [LENGTH - e.g. about 35 seconds]
- **Voice:** [VOICE - e.g. "a dry fashion editor", "my own voice", or "no voice: captions and sound only"]
- **Music:** [MUSIC - e.g. "the skill's runway house brief", or your own idea]
- **Ending:** [CTA - organic: "Comment KEYWORD and I'll send you THE THING", with the keyword and what you'll send; or sponsored: the line and the URL]
- **AI tools:** [AI TOOLS - e.g. "whatever you already have set up", "HYVIRAL", or "none: I have photos and I'll record the voice myself"]
- **Avoid:** [AVOID - e.g. no real magazine names, no claims I can't back up]

Work in this order:

1. Write the script on the skill's moves, with one line for each turn and what happens on the cover.
2. Build the plan, the clock and the frame, render a silent animatic, and show me the script, the scene sheet and the animatic. Wait for my OK.
3. Generate the pictures, voice, music and sound effects with the AI tools I named above. If I left that open, tell me which tools you'll use and wait for my OK.
4. Place a sound on every change, fit the music to the turn, mix voice first, render, and run every QA gate in the skill.
5. Give me the MP4, a cover frame and a ready-to-paste caption.