# The prompt

First give your agent the object-lesson 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 voice, music, images and sound effects; the skill works the same with all of
them, or with none (every scene is code, the narration can be your own voice, and the sounds can be made in code). 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 object-lesson skill to make a vertical news video for [PLATFORM: Instagram Reels / TikTok / YouTube Shorts].

- **The story:** [STORY - a link or two, or the headline in one sentence, e.g. "a game studio's founder steps down four
  days after a failed launch"]
- **Post by:** [POST BY - the day and hour it has to be out, e.g. "tomorrow, 6 pm New York time"]
- **Why my audience cares:** [ANGLE - optional, e.g. "my followers build apps", or "you decide"]
- **Tone:** [TONE - "dry, a little funny" is the default; or "straight, no jokes"]
- **The symbol:** [SYMBOL - "you find it", or your own idea, e.g. "a keystone in an arch"]
- **Length:** [LENGTH - e.g. about 60 seconds]
- **Language:** [LANGUAGE - e.g. English]
- **Narrator:** [VOICE - e.g. "design one: a man in his thirties, warm and low, dry, quick, a little amused", "the
  voice we saved last time", or "my own voice, recorded"]
- **Colors and fonts:** [LOOK - "pick them from the story", or your own colors and fonts]
- **3D:** [HERO SHOTS - "none, flat only", "Blender is installed: two to four in 3D", or "a generated still for each"]
- **Real photos:** [PHOTOS - "find ones I'm allowed to use", "none", or attached with their licenses]
- **Music:** [MUSIC - "make three candidates for me to pick", or your own track]
- **Ending:** [CTA - "Comment KEYWORD and I'll send you THE THING", with the keyword and what you'll send, or "use the
  symbol's name as the keyword"]
- **AI tools:** [AI TOOLS - e.g. "whatever you already have set up", "HYVIRAL", or "none: I'll record the voice and you
  make the sounds in code"]
- **Avoid:** [AVOID - e.g. no speculation, no stock tips, no faces]

Work in this order:

1. Tell me first whether this is news, a follow-up or a look back, and what my post-by time leaves room for. Then research
   the story and write the fact sheet, with a source and a date for every claim, the weekday beside every date, and
   what is still unknown.
2. Find the symbol, write its states act by act and name its holographic details, and write the script at 2.6 to 3.0
   words a second, with three openings, each from a different way into the story, and with every pivot and every
   light moment marked. If the story involves
   harm, write it slower and with no light moments, whatever tone I asked for. Show me the facts, the symbol, the
   script and the caption, and wait for my OK.
3. Build the plan and a storyboard frame for every shot, drawn with the real scene code and with the safe area marked.
   Show me the storyboard on one page. If this is our first film together, wait for my OK; if not, or if it is due in
   under 24 hours, keep building while I look.
4. On our first film, make the narrator candidates and the music candidates with the AI tools I named above, and let
   me pick; after that, use the voice and the music style we saved. If I said "whatever you already have set up", use
   that; if nothing is set up, tell me which tools you'll use and wait for my OK.
5. Build the scenes, land the story's moments on the music's beats, place a sound on every change, mix voice first,
   render, and run every QA gate in the skill.
6. Give me the MP4, a cover frame, the rights list and a ready-to-paste caption.