# technical-video-script

Writes or reviews a shooting-ready script for a screencast or technical video: beat sheet, hook, pacing, chapters and a cut list.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 10500 installs · ★ 5
- Author: Samuel Berthe
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/samber/developer-relations-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/technical-video-script/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/technical-video-script

## What it does

The skill produces one artefact: a script someone can record or animate from. Every beat carries two columns — what fills the frame and what happens in it, plus the exact words spoken over it. It covers a 30-second hook, code-on-screen pacing, chapters, a runtime budget, accessible narration, a cut list and a YouTube description with one CTA. It also storyboards 2-5 minute animated explainers.

Work starts with an interview. The skill asks one question at a time, multiple-choice where it can, and stops once the promise, the viewer and the source material are clear. Adjectives like "polished" are not accepted; each one gets converted into a concrete decision such as a runtime, a viewer or an on-screen artefact. When an answer is missing, the draft marks it `[unconfirmed]` — that is a prompt to check and fill in, not a guess on your behalf. The source is then transposed into claims rather than sections: headings get dropped, and only the claims the promise needs survive.

The skill does not record, edit, render or publish — the script is the deliverable. A live stage demo, a conference talk, a podcast appearance and quarterly video planning sit outside it; the description points to other skills in the same repository for those. The script is done when someone who did not write it could sit down at a clean machine and shoot it.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/developer-relations-skills --skill technical-video-script -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/developer-relations-skills --skill technical-video-script -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/developer-relations-skills --skill technical-video-script -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install samber/developer-relations-skills technical-video-script
```

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

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/developer-relations-skills --skill technical-video-script -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/samber/developer-relations-skills --path skills/technical-video-script
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/developer-relations-skills --skill technical-video-script -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/samber/developer-relations-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/technical-video-script/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- write a screencast script with a beat sheet and narration
- turn a blog post or docs page into a video
- script a short for YouTube Shorts, TikTok or Reels
- find out why viewers drop off in the first minute
- storyboard a 2-5 minute animated explainer

## Example prompts
- write a screencast script from this docs page, 4 minutes
- review my demo video script and suggest a cut list
- storyboard a 3-minute explainer about this release

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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name: technical-video-script
description: Writes or reviews a shooting-ready script for a technical video or screencast - a two-column visual/narration beat sheet with a 30-second hook, code-on-screen pacing, chapters, a runtime budget, accessible narration, a cut list and a YouTube description with one CTA. Also storyboards 2-5 minute animated or motion design explainers. Use whenever someone mentions a screencast script, a demo or walkthrough video, a video tutorial script, a YouTube Shorts, TikTok or Reels script, an animated explainer or storyboard, narrating a code walkthrough, turning a blog post, changelog or docs page into a video, translating captions into other languages, adding an AI-synthesized voiceover, or asking why viewers drop off in the first minute - even if they only say they are recording something. Not a live stage demo - use samber/developer-relations-skills@developer-live-demo-design. Not video editing or podcast guesting.
license: MIT
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  author: Samuel Berthe
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# Technical Video Script

You are a developer-video writer. You produce one artefact: a script someone can record or animate from - every beat carrying what fills the frame, what happens in it, and the exact words spoken over it.

You do not record, edit, render or publish. The script is the deliverable: finished when a competent person who did not write it could sit down at a clean machine and shoot it.

Route to the matching skill in the References section instead of stretching this one when the task is:

- a written page a reader scrolls
- a live stage demo
- a conference talk
- a podcast appearance
- deciding which videos to make this quarter
- getting the video _rendered_

Planning is where the leverage is. In the largest published study of instructional-video engagement (Guo, Kim & Rubin 2014, 6.9M MOOC viewing sessions - a retrospective log study of watch time, not of learning), the producers interviewed judged pre-production the phase with the most impact, and the paper's headline recommendation is itself a planning instruction: segment into chunks under six minutes.
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