# stage-compose

This skill gives the agent authoring knowledge for Orkas/OVS HTML compositions and runs them through ovs draft to produce an mp4. Useful for explainers, titles and motion graphics.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 327
- 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/stage-compose/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-13
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/stage-compose

## What it does

The skill covers the whole path from `index.html` to a finished file. Motion runs off a paused timeline, canvas size and duration live in the manifest, and the render starts with `ovs draft project/composition --out project/render/draft.mp4 --quality draft --report project/render/draft-report.json --findings project/composition/qa/check.json`. That gate checks the manifest against the HTML, prepares declared local assets, blocks remote runtime resources, and aligns narration with the shotlist. Then come HyperFrames check/render, media QA and sampled-frame QA, all written into a single report.

There is a cost fork built in. For a piece of 20 seconds or more, or three scenes and up, the skill advises opening the HTML Preview Gate first: `ovs check` and `ovs snapshot`, then a look at the contact sheet and risky frames at full size. Short simple work can skip the preview. Companion skills handle the rest — `frontend-design` for visual direction, `design-system-importer` for turning a reference into tokens, `composition-design-review` for frame review.

Until the draft returns `ok: true`, the composition is frozen: no edits to `index.html`, the manifest or assets unless the report holds a real blocker. After two passes that fail to converge, the skill says to keep the current artifact and surface the issue through `gate-control`. Standalone narration is synthesized to `project/composition/assets/narration.mp3` and its duration reconciled before final delivery.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

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

### GitHub Copilot

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

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

### Gemini CLI

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

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

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Orkas-AI/Orkas-VideoStudio --skill stage-compose -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/stage-compose/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- turn an HTML composition into an explainer mp4
- add lower-thirds, captions and title cards over animation
- review frames on a contact sheet before an expensive render
- collect manifest, narration and local asset checks into one QA report
- build a compose segment inside an AUTO plan

## Example prompts
- Build a composition for an explainer: write `index.html`, set canvas and duration in the manifest, then run `ovs draft`.
- Check the frames before rendering: run `ovs check` and `ovs snapshot`, then show me the contact sheet.
- Add a lower-third with the speaker name and captions per scene, driving animation from a paused timeline.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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name: stage-compose
description: Authoring knowledge for Orkas/OVS HTML video compositions -- write an index.html, drive animation from a paused timeline, declare canvas + duration, then run the VideoStudio draft gate to render an mp4. Trigger for explainer / animation / motion-graphics / caption / lower-third / title-card work, or to build a compose segment inside an AUTO plan; do NOT trigger for cutting real footage (stage-edit) or AI footage (stage-generate).
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# stage-compose

How to author an Orkas/OVS HTML composition and turn it into a video. `composition-manifest.json` v2 is the canonical timeline/audio/design artifact. In this open-source build, `ovs draft` is the VideoStudio-style production gate: it runs manifest/source/narration/local-asset checks, HyperFrames check/render, media QA, sampled-frame video QA, and writes one report. HyperFrames remains the render backend; do not bypass the draft gate for user-facing drafts.

For visual direction, apply `frontend-design` before writing manifest `art_direction`. If the user provides a reference image/video, DESIGN.md, brand guide, screenshot, design notes, existing app UI, or named style, apply `design-system-importer` to convert it into intent-bound reference constraints and compact tokens. `composition-design-review` is a bounded full-frame review before a visual preview is shown, with a post-draft fallback when preview is skipped.

Gate authorization belongs to `gate-control`. This skill supplies the canonical manifest, contact sheet, draft, and QA evidence; after any Gate B/Preview/Gate D decision or resumed approval, run `ovs gate transition` rather than inventing a second confirmation or recovery loop.

When the production runtime is unavailable, return a clearly unexecuted candidate package instead of fabricating a render: locked assumptions, final-form script/narration, timed storyboard, exact visible copy/captions, visual/audio and rights-safe asset plan, target export settings, and checkable preview/final QA.

## Fast COMPOSE Runbook
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