# orchestration

Coordinates video creation and editing from the initial concept to the final export, pausing for user approval before important production decisions.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 329
- Author: Orkas-AI
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/Orkas-AI/Orkas-VideoStudio/tree/HEAD/packages/skills/orchestration/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-13
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/orkas-ai-orchestration

## What it does

The orchestration skill directs video work through distinct production paths. It can build a graphic-led explainer, assemble AI-generated footage, or edit clips supplied by the user. Projects that combine multiple kinds of content use a separate planning and assembly flow. Operations run through the `ovs` CLI, or through an MCP server that exposes the same commands.

The workflow includes explicit approval checkpoints. The agent presents concepts, a timed production plan, or a draft video, then waits for the user's decision before continuing. Approved changes stay within the authorized scope, while an abort ends the workflow. Creative choices remain with the user rather than being silently decided by the agent.

For voiceover work, the skill checks available speech-generation options, compares the script with the target duration, and measures the rendered audio before adjusting scene timing. Paid visual generation also requires approval before assets are created. If no text-to-speech provider is configured, the user must choose a silent deliverable or wait until one is configured. Video craft guidelines and relevant design instructions shape the production process.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Orkas-AI/Orkas-VideoStudio --skill orchestration -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/orchestration/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/orchestration/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Orkas-AI/Orkas-VideoStudio --skill orchestration -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/orchestration/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Orkas-AI/Orkas-VideoStudio --skill orchestration -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/orchestration/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install Orkas-AI/Orkas-VideoStudio orchestration
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/orchestration/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Orkas-AI/Orkas-VideoStudio --skill orchestration -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/Orkas-AI/Orkas-VideoStudio --path packages/skills/orchestration
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/orchestration/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Orkas-AI/Orkas-VideoStudio --skill orchestration -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/Orkas-AI/Orkas-VideoStudio/tree/HEAD/packages/skills/orchestration/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- Break video production into approval-based stages
- Draft a concept and timed plan before rendering
- Generate footage and assemble a finished sequence
- Edit supplied clips with subtitles or localization
- Review a draft before approving the final export

## Example prompts
- Create an educational video using text and graphics, and show me several concepts before production.
- Edit the clips I uploaded with subtitles, then present the plan for approval.
- Generate cinematic footage, explain the billable generation steps, and wait for my approval before starting.

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name: orchestration
description: The master program for producing or editing a video end to end — read this at the START of any video task (after video-router), then follow the gates and the per-line steps. Trigger for "make / edit / cut / caption / dub / animate a video"; it sequences the compose / generate / edit lines and the approval gates. Do NOT trigger for a single low-level operation (just transcribe a file, just probe a clip) — call that operation directly.
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# orchestration

You are producing a short video. Run this as a TIGHT program — lean turns — but STOP at every GATE so the creative decisions stay the user's. Only the technical/assembly steps between gates run unattended. The CLI surface is `ovs ...` (an MCP server mirrors it 1:1; use whichever your host exposes). All work for one deliverable lives under a single project dir, e.g. `project/`.

Read `gate-control` once before the first user gate. It is the single authorization policy across all lines. After every gate reply, resumed approval, post-gate revision, or exhausted visual-QA result, run `ovs gate transition` and follow its one returned action; line sections below define artifacts and production steps, not a competing approval state machine.

## Checkpoint protocol — how every GATE works (there is no special form UI)

1. **Show the artifact in chat** so the user can actually see it — script/plan as markdown, images inline, a draft video as its output file path — plus one line of "what I'll do next" and any cost/QA note.
2. **State the options** for that gate and **WAIT for the user to reply**. Do not run the next production step in the same turn as the gate.
3. **On reply, resolve the choice** with `ovs gate transition`: approve → continue only with the returned operation; revise → redo only the authorized scope, re-show, and re-gate only when the resolver says so; abort → stop. Never pass a gate without explicit user confirmation, and never ask again for an unchanged artifact whose approval is already recorded.

## 1. Route + lock (read `video-router`)

Classify and LOCK the line (no silent switching):
- **COMPOSE** — explain / teach / animate / motion-graphics / kinetic text, no source footage → `ovs draft` (+ optional `ovs image` / `ovs video` imagery, optional `ovs speak` narration).
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