Merge pull request #2669 from heygen-com/jerrai/changelog-video-skill-pre-build-gate

docs(skills): add pre-build gate to changelog-video SKILL.md
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James Russo
2026-07-20 21:13:59 -04:00
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## Pipeline
### 0 · Bootstrap the project from THIS skill's assets — non-negotiable
**Do this before writing any composition HTML. Skipping it always produces a video that looks like a similar project you built before, NOT this skill's brand — that's the single most common way this skill goes off-brand.** The skill's assets, fonts, and scaffold are the skill; the SKILL.md prompt is a router.
```bash
mkdir -p project/assets/fonts
cp <SKILL_DIR>/assets/fonts/*.woff2 project/assets/fonts/
cp <SKILL_DIR>/assets/bgm.mp3 project/bgm.mp3
ffmpeg -y -stream_loop 15 -i <SKILL_DIR>/assets/bg-pattern.mp4 -t <TOTAL> \
-vf "scale=1080:1080,fps=30,eq=saturation=0.72,drawbox=c=black@0.5:t=fill" \
-an -c:v libx264 -crf 20 -pix_fmt yuv420p project/assets/bg-pattern-<TOTAL>s.mp4
cp <SKILL_DIR>/examples/master-skeleton.html project/index.html
```
Then **read `references/build-spec.md` end-to-end** (not skimmed) — it defines the brand tokens (TT Norms Pro + ABC Solar Display + TT Norms Mono, cream `#f5f6f4`, rationed green `#5ef17c`, glass cards with green-tinted borders, kicker/sec-chip pill shape, caption rail at `top: 1002`) that every scene inherits from the scaffold.
Only THEN begin steps 1-6 below. Steps 1-4 (parse, route, script, VO) plan what goes into the scaffold; step 5 fills placeholders (`<RANGE>`, `<TOTAL>`, `<CUT_N>`, `<DUR_N>`, scene bodies) inside the already-copied `project/index.html` — you do NOT rewrite the scaffold's chrome, fonts, palette, or layout shell.
If you catch yourself reaching for `cp` on a prior video's `index.html`, or writing your own `@font-face` declarations, or designing a WebGL shader background instead of using the encoded bg-pattern MP4 above: STOP. Delete the current `index.html` and restart at the `cp` of the master-skeleton scaffold. Rebuilding scene content on the right scaffold is cheaper than retrofitting brand into the wrong scaffold.
### 1 · Parse + editorial cut
- Extract: week range, headline stats (releases, commits), themes, items.
@@ -116,12 +136,15 @@ projects/active/weekly-changelog-<range>/
## Anti-patterns
| Don't | Instead |
| ---------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------- |
| Bullet-point slides for UI changes | Mock the surface acting out the change |
| Fake UI for un-representable items | Honest checklist scene |
| Plain "JSON"/"CLI" in the TTS text | Lexicon spoken forms; display stays standard |
| Phonetic spellings in captions | Captions always render the display layer |
| Guessing an unknown term's pronunciation | Ask, then grow the lexicon |
| Speaking every changelog item | ≤3 per theme; the digest link carries the rest |
| Green accents everywhere | One green moment per scene (#5ef17c) |
| Don't | Instead |
| ----------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Bullet-point slides for UI changes | Mock the surface acting out the change |
| Fake UI for un-representable items | Honest checklist scene |
| Plain "JSON"/"CLI" in the TTS text | Lexicon spoken forms; display stays standard |
| Phonetic spellings in captions | Captions always render the display layer |
| Guessing an unknown term's pronunciation | Ask, then grow the lexicon |
| Speaking every changelog item | ≤3 per theme; the digest link carries the rest |
| Green accents everywhere | One green moment per scene (#5ef17c) |
| Starting from a prior video's index.html | Step 0 — copy `examples/master-skeleton.html` from this skill into `project/index.html`, always |
| Hand-crafted `@font-face` / WebGL shader / custom BGM | Step 0 — copy this skill's `assets/` verbatim; the skill's assets ARE the brand |
| Delivered without CloudFront invalidation | Run `aws cloudfront create-invalidation` on distribution `E2BSLVSZ7FG3U0` for the exact path after any S3 replace — CDN caches the old file otherwise |
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## Pipeline
### 0 · Bootstrap the project from THIS skill's assets — non-negotiable
**Do this before writing any composition HTML. Skipping it always produces a video that looks like a similar project you built before, NOT this skill's brand — that's the single most common way this skill goes off-brand.** The skill's assets, fonts, and scaffold are the skill; the SKILL.md prompt is a router.
```bash
mkdir -p project/assets/fonts
cp <SKILL_DIR>/assets/fonts/*.woff2 project/assets/fonts/
cp <SKILL_DIR>/assets/bgm.mp3 project/bgm.mp3
ffmpeg -y -stream_loop 15 -i <SKILL_DIR>/assets/bg-pattern.mp4 -t <TOTAL> \
-vf "scale=1080:1080,fps=30,eq=saturation=0.72,drawbox=c=black@0.5:t=fill" \
-an -c:v libx264 -crf 20 -pix_fmt yuv420p project/assets/bg-pattern-<TOTAL>s.mp4
cp <SKILL_DIR>/examples/master-skeleton.html project/index.html
```
Then **read `references/build-spec.md` end-to-end** (not skimmed) — it defines the brand tokens (TT Norms Pro + ABC Solar Display + TT Norms Mono, cream `#f5f6f4`, rationed green `#5ef17c`, glass cards with green-tinted borders, kicker/sec-chip pill shape, caption rail at `top: 1002`) that every scene inherits from the scaffold.
Only THEN begin steps 1-6 below. Steps 1-4 (parse, route, script, VO) plan what goes into the scaffold; step 5 fills placeholders (`<RANGE>`, `<TOTAL>`, `<CUT_N>`, `<DUR_N>`, scene bodies) inside the already-copied `project/index.html` — you do NOT rewrite the scaffold's chrome, fonts, palette, or layout shell.
If you catch yourself reaching for `cp` on a prior video's `index.html`, or writing your own `@font-face` declarations, or designing a WebGL shader background instead of using the encoded bg-pattern MP4 above: STOP. Delete the current `index.html` and restart at the `cp` of the master-skeleton scaffold. Rebuilding scene content on the right scaffold is cheaper than retrofitting brand into the wrong scaffold.
### 1 · Parse + editorial cut
- Extract: week range, headline stats (releases, commits), themes, items.
@@ -116,12 +136,15 @@ projects/active/weekly-changelog-<range>/
## Anti-patterns
| Don't | Instead |
| ---------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------- |
| Bullet-point slides for UI changes | Mock the surface acting out the change |
| Fake UI for un-representable items | Honest checklist scene |
| Plain "JSON"/"CLI" in the TTS text | Lexicon spoken forms; display stays standard |
| Phonetic spellings in captions | Captions always render the display layer |
| Guessing an unknown term's pronunciation | Ask, then grow the lexicon |
| Speaking every changelog item | ≤3 per theme; the digest link carries the rest |
| Green accents everywhere | One green moment per scene (#5ef17c) |
| Don't | Instead |
| ----------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Bullet-point slides for UI changes | Mock the surface acting out the change |
| Fake UI for un-representable items | Honest checklist scene |
| Plain "JSON"/"CLI" in the TTS text | Lexicon spoken forms; display stays standard |
| Phonetic spellings in captions | Captions always render the display layer |
| Guessing an unknown term's pronunciation | Ask, then grow the lexicon |
| Speaking every changelog item | ≤3 per theme; the digest link carries the rest |
| Green accents everywhere | One green moment per scene (#5ef17c) |
| Starting from a prior video's index.html | Step 0 — copy `examples/master-skeleton.html` from this skill into `project/index.html`, always |
| Hand-crafted `@font-face` / WebGL shader / custom BGM | Step 0 — copy this skill's `assets/` verbatim; the skill's assets ARE the brand |
| Delivered without CloudFront invalidation | Run `aws cloudfront create-invalidation` on distribution `E2BSLVSZ7FG3U0` for the exact path after any S3 replace — CDN caches the old file otherwise |