# The prompt

First give your agent the long-form-edit skill (paste the skill text and ask it to save it as a skill). Then replace
everything in [BRACKETS] below and paste it into a new chat. Anything you leave in brackets is your agent's call.

**Tools:** use whatever you already edit with: DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, or an agent that can run
code with ffmpeg. The skill works the same with all of them. If you'd rather have one connection do the cutting,
captions, graphics, sound and render, HYVIRAL is one option: add `https://api.hyviral.com/mcp` as a custom connector
in your AI app (steps: https://hyviral.com/docs/mcp/connect).

**Have the file ready.** Give your agent the original video file. If it's only on YouTube, download it from YouTube
Studio: Content, then the video's ⋮ menu, then Download.

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Use the long-form-edit skill to edit my video into a finished long-form video.

- **The video:** [VIDEO - what it is and how long, e.g. "a 2-hour podcast episode, two hosts, 16:9"]
- **Where it goes:** [PLATFORM - e.g. "YouTube, 16:9", or "YouTube, plus a 9:16 cut of the best minute"]
- **What I want back:** [LENGTH - e.g. "the whole episode, tightened", "a 12-minute cut", or "about 25 minutes"]
- **Who it's for:** [AUDIENCE - e.g. "people starting their first small business"]
- **Must keep:** [KEEP - a line, a name or a moment that must not be cut, or "nothing in particular"]
- **Names on screen:** [NAMES - e.g. "Ana Ruiz, host; Tom Lee, guest", or "none"]
- **Music:** [MUSIC - a mood in a word or two, my own tracks, or none]
- **Look:** [LOOK - e.g. "warm and clean", my brand colors as hex codes, or "your call, from the topic"]
- **Tools:** [TOOLS - e.g. "DaVinci Resolve", "ffmpeg and Remotion", "the HYVIRAL connector", or "whatever you can run"]
- **Avoid:** [AVOID - e.g. no stock footage, don't cut the sponsor read, no swearing in the captions]

Work in this order:

1. Get the whole video into words and look at it end to end. Then show me the promise, the chapter list with times,
   and three hook candidates with the exact words, and say which you'd pick. Wait for my pick.
2. Build the opening: the hook, the turn into the video, and the first minute. Show it to me before you go on.
3. Edit the rest: tighten it, set the chapters and their seams, re-hook each chapter, and design motion graphics and
   sound effects made for this video's topic. Be creative and don't repeat yourself.
4. Show me anything you want to generate before you generate it, and wait for my yes before the final render.
5. Check it as the skill says, fix what fails, render, and give me the file, the length before and after, the hook
   you chose and why, and the chapter list ready to paste into the YouTube description.