Video & short-form script writer

On your schedule, a scriptwriter turns an angle into a batch of platform-shaped video and short-form scripts — each with a scroll-stopping hook, one idea, proof, and a single CTA — self-critiqued against a retention bar and landed for you to approve before production.

Saves you ~3.2 h / week

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How it works

Trigger
On the “Weekly scripts” schedule.
Job
Frame the angle, choose formats, draft on the retention arc.
Outcome
A production-ready script or video package with evidence and approval checkpoints.

What it installs

Agents 2

  • Video Script Writer

    Drafts and self-critiques video and short-form scripts from an angle.

  • Video & short-form script writer Quality Reviewer

    Checks primary evidence, domain controls, deliverable completeness, and communication quality, stopping the run when the work is wrong, unsupported, incomplete, or uncertain.

Teams 1

  • Video & short-form script writer quality team

    The delivery agents produce the work while an independent quality reviewer checks each workflow handoff against explicit evidence, domain, and communication requirements before the run can continue.

Workflows 2

  • Script drafting

    Frame the angle, choose formats, draft on the retention arc, self-critique, and hand off for approval.

  • Video script performance readback

    Load due platform results, separate packaging, retention, and business outcomes, approve a decision, and preserve the learning.

Documents 1

  • Video script performance log

    Approved scripts, packaging metadata, owner feedback, fixed performance windows, and human-approved hook and format learnings.

Goals 1

  • A retention-bar batch of scripts shipped every cycle

    The template exists to keep a reliable production pipeline of platform-shaped scripts fed — a steady cadence, not sporadic bursts when someone remembers to write. Success looks like: Every scheduled cycle, a batch of platform-shaped scripts — each with a chosen hook from several options, one idea, caption-readable proof, and a single CTA — passes the retention bar and is approved by the human before production.

Skills 3

  • video

    Choose a production approach and platform shape for marketing video — short-form, explainer, demo — and script the hook → problem → solution → CTA arc to the right length and aspect ratio. Adapted from coreyhaines31/marketingskills/video.

  • copywriting-hooks

    Generate scroll-stopping opening hooks by pulling distinct psychological levers — curiosity gap, contrarian, scene, promise, authority — and matching the technique to the format. Adapted from samber/cc-skills/copywriting-hooks.

  • copywriting-cta

    Design a single, specific call to action matched to one objective and one audience — value-first, mechanism only when it genuinely helps — instead of a generic 'subscribe for more'. Adapted from samber/cc-skills/copywriting-cta.

Schedules 2

  • Weekly scripts

    Drafts the cycle's batch of scripts on the schedule you choose. ## Professional quality control Objective: complete the recurring Video & short-form script writer operating cycle and deliver a review-ready, evidence-backed result rather than merely report that the schedule ran. Start by fixing the review period, reading the current source records and prior run, confirming required access, and listing missing or contradictory inputs. Execute the bundle's full authored method in order, retaining source, calculation, command, or before/after evidence for load-bearing findings. Separate facts from interpretation, apply supplied policy without inventing thresholds, and stop any branch that requires missing authority or an unconfirmed human rule. Produce the complete named deliverable plus an evidence record, assumptions, exceptions, unresolved questions, and concrete next actions with owners where the method calls for them. Run the workflow's independent verifier checks and fix failures before requesting approval. The task is done only when every requested section and quality criterion passes or a blocker is explicit; silence, inaccessible data, or polished prose is not proof of completion. For prose, verify audience and voice against supplied examples, support every factual claim, and remove generic AI phrasing, filler, canned setup, hollow transitions, inflated language, repetitive tricolons, bullet soup, and uniform cadence. Preserve format-specific load-bearing elements such as the hook, subject line, quoted language, and call to action while making every paragraph earn its place. Reject unsupported claims or fake specificity. The human retains authority over publication, sending, spend, signing, merging, deployment, and other consequential external actions.

  • Weekly script performance readback

    Reviews published videos whose complete fixed performance windows are due. ## Professional quality control Objective: complete the recurring Video & short-form script writer operating cycle and deliver a review-ready, evidence-backed result rather than merely report that the schedule ran. Start by fixing the review period, reading the current source records and prior run, confirming required access, and listing missing or contradictory inputs. Execute the bundle's full authored method in order, retaining source, calculation, command, or before/after evidence for load-bearing findings. Separate facts from interpretation, apply supplied policy without inventing thresholds, and stop any branch that requires missing authority or an unconfirmed human rule. Produce the complete named deliverable plus an evidence record, assumptions, exceptions, unresolved questions, and concrete next actions with owners where the method calls for them. Run the workflow's independent verifier checks and fix failures before requesting approval. The task is done only when every requested section and quality criterion passes or a blocker is explicit; silence, inaccessible data, or polished prose is not proof of completion. For prose, verify audience and voice against supplied examples, support every factual claim, and remove generic AI phrasing, filler, canned setup, hollow transitions, inflated language, repetitive tricolons, bullet soup, and uniform cadence. Preserve format-specific load-bearing elements such as the hook, subject line, quoted language, and call to action while making every paragraph earn its place. Reject unsupported claims or fake specificity. The human retains authority over publication, sending, spend, signing, merging, deployment, and other consequential external actions.

Folders 1

  • Video scripts

Requirements

  • Web search and fetch access for hook and angle research — The scriptwriter researches what is already landing in the niche — top videos, recurring hooks, voice-of-audience phrasing — through worker web search and fetch tools that read public pages. Until web tools are available, it writes from the angle and documents you supply and labels any research gap.

Setup guide

How to Write Video Scripts

A practical guide to drafting short-form video scripts with hooks, proof, format fit, retention critique, and approval.

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