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Get a narrated script, cuts to repeated lines and timed shots with clip prompts.","area":"marketing","family":{"id":"make-video-ads","name":"Make video ads"},"lead":"write-a-narrated-video-ad-the-pictures-can-carry","featured":false,"contextKind":"brand","deliverables":["A narrated script with a picture for every line","A line-by-line verdict on what the narration adds","A leaner script that reads cleanly aloud","Timed shots with a prompt for each clip"],"inputs":["A brief: the goal, the buyer and the main point","Your brand file","A buyer description (optional)","Your product facts, such as price, variants and how it is used"],"opening":{"give":["A brief: the goal, the buyer and the main point","Your brand file","Your product facts, such as price, variants and how it is used"],"get":["A narrated script with a picture for every line","A leaner script that reads cleanly aloud","Timed shots with a prompt for each clip"]},"helpfulInputs":[],"fit":["You want a one to ten minute ad that explains how something works.","Your last narrated ad felt like a slide show with a voice on top.","Many of your viewers watch with the sound off."],"limits":["You want a fifteen-second ad: short ads rarely carry narration worth cutting, so write a short script by hand or with the Video ad script line checker.","You already have a script and only need it to sound right spoken: use the Ad script read-aloud editor.","You already have a final script and need timed shots: use the Video ad shot list maker."],"tools":["Claude: Keeps a long stock list and every source straight across a script of 1,500 words.","ElevenLabs: A paid service that needs an account. Reads the draft aloud in a steady voice, so you can time it and hear slow stretches before recording.","Any good chat AI: Sorting lines and rewriting scenes is text work.","A video editor: Cut the real footage after the script is stripped.","Any good chat AI: Finding lines that trip and fixing only the sound works well in any strong chat AI.","Your phone's voice recorder: One recorded read shows where the presenter stumbles, which is the best evidence for what to fix.","Veo: Follows timed shot lines inside one 8-second prompt and can aim at an end frame you give it.","Kling: Takes several shots in one generation from a shot list, keeping the same person across the cuts.","Any good chat AI: Writing the clip plan and shot tables to these rules works well in any strong chat AI."],"method":["Download the handoff pack. It's a zip with HANDOFF.md plus four skill files, in the order they run: Long-form video ad script writer, Voice-over stripping test, Ad script read-aloud editor, Video ad shot list maker. Keep them together.","Give the folder to Claude (in Claude Code, or as files in a Claude Project) and say \"Follow HANDOFF.md\".","Paste your brief and product facts, and say how long the ad should run.","Read the verdict on each narration line. Say if you want to keep a line the test cut.","Make the clips from the prompts. This needs a video tool, and it runs on paid credits."],"capabilities":[{"name":"Write the narrated script","description":"Lists problems, explanations, doubts and proof, sets the length, and writes each round with a picture for every line."},{"name":"Strip the voice-over","description":"Removes all narration, rereads the scenes, marks each line as telling or adding, and replaces telling lines with something we see."},{"name":"Fix the read-aloud trips","description":"Reads the lean script at speaking speed and fixes each line a presenter would stumble on."},{"name":"Plan the shots","description":"Times the remaining words, counts shots and writes a motion prompt for each clip."}],"expertise":{"principles":["Write for one named audience and one action. Each asset has a single job.","Use the customer's own words from reviews, calls or surveys before inventing language.","Every claim needs proof the business can show. Leave unproven claims out or mark them.","Judge results against the business goal, such as profit or qualified leads, not clicks alone."],"pitfalls":["Generic copy that could fit any brand.","Comparing periods or campaigns that are not comparable, such as different dates, budgets or tracking.","Calling a test winner before there is enough data."],"quality":["Each step passed its own checks, or the run stopped at the step that failed and says why.","The steps ran in order, and each one used the result of the one before.","Nothing was invented to fill a gap. Every gap is a MISSING: line.","Nothing was sent, published or paid for without a clear yes.","Every narration line left adds something the picture cannot show, and each replaced line became an action you could film.","No fact was lost in the trim, and the script still makes sense to someone watching with no sound.","Every claim traces to the brand brain or supplied evidence."],"sources":{"learned":0,"curated":false,"method":6,"source":0,"area":"marketing"}},"workedExample":{"situation":"You want a one to ten minute ad that explains how something works.","task":"Share your brief, product facts and brand guidance. Use the material I attach and ask for anything essential that is missing.","given":["Your brief: the goal, the buyer and the main point","Your brand file or brand brain","A buyer description (optional)","Your product facts, such as price, variants and how it is used","How long the ad should run"],"outputs":[{"name":"Step 1: Narrated script","contains":"Rounds of narration, a picture planned for each line, and the total length."},{"name":"Step 2: Strip test","contains":"Each narration line marked as telling or adding, with a seen replacement for every telling line."},{"name":"Step 3: Read-aloud script","contains":"The leaner script with each line fixed so a presenter can say it cleanly."},{"name":"Step 4: Shots and clip prompts","contains":"Timed shots, an image prompt and a video prompt for each clip, and an edit plan."},{"name":"Hand-back summary","contains":"Each step's file, any step not run and why, and every MISSING line in one list."}]},"example":"Share your brief, product facts and brand guidance. 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Get each line sorted as telling or counterpoint, plus a shorter script.","method":"voice-over-stripping-test","when":["Your video script has a voice that feels like it is explaining everything.","A video ad runs long and you need to cut words, not pictures.","You are not sure whether the narration helps.","A client says the voice-over feels like it talks down to the viewer."],"inputs":["The full script with narration marked as voice-over or VO, scene by scene, from your script document","What each scene should make the viewer feel (optional)","What is seen in each shot, from your shot list or storyboard (optional)","The length limit in seconds (optional)"],"deliverables":["A verdict on the story with the narration stripped out","Every narration line sorted as telling or counterpoint, with a reason","A revised script with the cuts and the replacement actions","A note on any open meaning kept on purpose","Any gaps and any check the revised script still misses"]},{"name":"Ad script read-aloud editor","description":"Fix the lines in your ad script that trip when read aloud. Paste it in and get each fix, the rule it broke, and any line still failing.","method":"ad-script-read-aloud-editor","when":["Your script reads fine on paper but sounds stiff when someone says it.","An AI wrote the draft and it has the giveaway rhythms (fragments, \"No X. No Y.\").","You're about to record a voice-over or a founder video and want a clean take."],"inputs":["The finished script or ad text","Who it's for (the general public, people who know the category, or professionals) (optional)","A few of your brand's own published lines (optional)","Spoken or read, if it's ad text rather than a script (optional)"],"deliverables":["Each failing phrase, where it is and the rule it breaks","The full fixed text for each one","Flags for any claim or number that looks wrong, left as written","Any line a presenter still couldn't say cleanly after the fixes"]},{"name":"Video ad shot list maker","description":"Share an approved script and visual references. Get timed shot tables, frame prompts, clip prompts and an edit list for production.","method":"video-ad-shot-list-maker","when":["Your storyboard is approved and you need clips that don't look like one long static shot.","Your AI clips keep inventing objects mid-shot or showing the product the wrong way.","You want to brief a real film crew with exact shot sizes, angles and timings."],"inputs":["The approved script or voice-over lines","What you sell, how it's used and a real photo (product, app screen or packaging; attach it, your AI can see pictures)","The approved avatar card, sheets, lock lines and storyboard, for AI video","Your brand's places, light and what never to show (optional)","The pace, the look and your tool's clip length (optional, normal and 8 seconds by default)"],"deliverables":["A clip plan and a film plan for each clip","A shot table per clip with timings, size, camera position, move and one action, for your approval","Start and end frame prompts and clip prompts that describe only the motion","A voice plan and an edit list with captions, music and the end card","Any of its own checks the shot list couldn't pass, named one per line"]},{"name":"Brand profile builder","description":"Share your website. 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If your AI is connected to an ad account or store, it reads it only with your say-so; that needs your own access, and some tools need a paid plan","Your next step, such as planning, writing or image work (optional)"],"deliverables":["A folder of eight plain files, from a start file for your AI to a claims list and a change log","A tag on every fact, and every claim marked approved, pending or banned","A two-sentence diagnosis of your biggest gap, and a list of what's missing and who can answer it","A short slice for your next step, if you name one"]},{"name":"Stanley Kubrick","description":"Review research, editing or a creative plan using Stanley Kubrick’s recorded approach. Examine each choice, test the cut and protect time for revision.","method":"stanley-kubrick","when":["Build a deep research file before you start a big project","Decide whether to do another take, draft or version, or stop","Edit your own work frame by frame, line by line, and cut what doesn't earn its place","Choose existing music or sound that changes how a scene or video feels","Leave the meaning of a piece open instead of explaining it","Adapt a book, article or idea into a different form","Keep control of a creative project from first idea to how it's marketed","Learn a craft by making something small yourself, now"],"inputs":["Your task or question","Your facts, numbers or draft (optional; it asks once if they matter)","A role for them, such as \"my investor\" (optional)"],"deliverables":["Your problem worked on the way Stanley Kubrick would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in Stanley Kubrick's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"]},{"name":"Robert McKee","description":"Plan scenes, dialogue or a story outline using Robert McKee’s recorded approach. Test the premise, reveal choices under pressure and check what changes.","method":"robert-mckee","when":["Test whether a story idea or premise can carry a whole piece before you draft it","Plan a story as a step outline of scenes that each turn something","Reveal who a character really is through one hard choice under pressure","Rewrite dialogue so every line is someone trying to get something","Decide whether narration or a voice-over helps your film, video or podcast","Turn a company's facts and data into a story people remember","Plant set-ups early so the pay-offs land","Design a cast of characters around a main character"],"inputs":["Your task or question","Your facts, numbers or draft (optional; it asks once if they matter)","A role for them, such as \"my investor\" (optional)"],"deliverables":["Your problem worked on the way Robert McKee would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in Robert McKee's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"]}],"resources":[{"slug":"write-a-narrated-video-ad-the-pictures-can-carry","name":"Narrated video ad shot planner","summary":"Share your brief, product facts and brand guidance. 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Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"ad-script-read-aloud-editor","name":"Ad script read-aloud editor","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["Your script reads fine on paper but sounds stiff when someone says it.","An AI wrote the draft and it has the giveaway rhythms (fragments, \"No X. No Y.\").","You're about to record a voice-over or a founder video and want a clean take."],"inputs":["The finished script or ad text","Who it's for (the general public, people who know the category, or professionals) (optional)","A few of your brand's own published lines (optional)","Spoken or read, if it's ad text rather than a script (optional)"],"deliverables":["Each failing phrase, where it is and the rule it breaks","The full fixed text for each one","Flags for any claim or number that looks wrong, left as written","Any line a presenter still couldn't say cleanly after the fixes"],"instruction":"skills/ad-script-read-aloud-editor/SKILL.md","revision":"cd649c5356a32fad859f9996091aa7fe6a624eb0220e7fb36b51fd551e7d3461","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"video-ad-shot-list-maker","name":"Video ad shot list maker","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["Your storyboard is approved and you need clips that don't look like one long static shot.","Your AI clips keep inventing objects mid-shot or showing the product the wrong way.","You want to brief a real film crew with exact shot sizes, angles and timings."],"inputs":["The approved script or voice-over lines","What you sell, how it's used and a real photo (product, app screen or packaging; attach it, your AI can see pictures)","The approved avatar card, sheets, lock lines and storyboard, for AI video","Your brand's places, light and what never to show (optional)","The pace, the look and your tool's clip length (optional, normal and 8 seconds by default)"],"deliverables":["A clip plan and a film plan for each clip","A shot table per clip with timings, size, camera position, move and one action, for your approval","Start and end frame prompts and clip prompts that describe only the motion","A voice plan and an edit list with captions, music and the end card","Any of its own checks the shot list couldn't pass, named one per line"],"instruction":"skills/video-ad-shot-list-maker/SKILL.md","revision":"a27fcf5460e400a4368b944c70f2ba14f6746233ee875ae5218d7b973ae99c59","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"website-brand-brain-builder","name":"Brand profile builder","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"context","when":["You use AI for marketing and keep pasting the same background into every chat.","You're briefing a new writer, designer or AI tool and want them working from facts you can stand behind.","Your facts are spread across your site, product sheets and old ads, and you can't tell which claims are proven."],"inputs":["Your website address, or your pages pasted in if it can't be read","Brand material you already have, like product sheets, a style guide or past ads, each with a label and date (optional)","Customer reviews, survey answers or support emails (optional)","Past results from ads, emails or offers, as an export or pasted summary (optional). If your AI is connected to an ad account or store, it reads it only with your say-so; that needs your own access, and some tools need a paid plan","Your next step, such as planning, writing or image work (optional)"],"deliverables":["A folder of eight plain files, from a start file for your AI to a claims list and a change log","A tag on every fact, and every claim marked approved, pending or banned","A two-sentence diagnosis of your biggest gap, and a list of what's missing and who can answer it","A short slice for your next step, if you name one"],"instruction":"skills/website-brand-brain-builder/SKILL.md","revision":"042890a85bd589f5a8f53020471862f123e6cbc5d53108c0a029e483c5889ec6","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"stanley-kubrick","name":"Stanley Kubrick","kind":"mind","primary":false,"purpose":"review","when":["Build a deep research file before you start a big project","Decide whether to do another take, draft or version, or stop","Edit your own work frame by frame, line by line, and cut what doesn't earn its place","Choose existing music or sound that changes how a scene or video feels","Leave the meaning of a piece open instead of explaining it","Adapt a book, article or idea into a different form","Keep control of a creative project from first idea to how it's marketed","Learn a craft by making something small yourself, now"],"inputs":["Your task or question","Your facts, numbers or draft (optional; it asks once if they matter)","A role for them, such as \"my investor\" (optional)"],"deliverables":["Your problem worked on the way Stanley Kubrick would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in Stanley Kubrick's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"],"instruction":"skills/stanley-kubrick/SKILL.md","revision":"cc7e0346639ab24c4af1535922681c0f3ff444f0aa5f22f057d875b48b6d49e9","invocation":"Read the mind file. Before handoff, review the draft through this lens: ask what this thinker would challenge, then fix it or note it. Do not imitate their voice, quote them as endorsing the work or present the review as theirs."},{"method":"robert-mckee","name":"Robert McKee","kind":"mind","primary":false,"purpose":"review","when":["Test whether a story idea or premise can carry a whole piece before you draft it","Plan a story as a step outline of scenes that each turn something","Reveal who a character really is through one hard choice under pressure","Rewrite dialogue so every line is someone trying to get something","Decide whether narration or a voice-over helps your film, video or podcast","Turn a company's facts and data into a story people remember","Plant set-ups early so the pay-offs land","Design a cast of characters around a main character"],"inputs":["Your task or question","Your facts, numbers or draft (optional; it asks once if they matter)","A role for them, such as \"my investor\" (optional)"],"deliverables":["Your problem worked on the way Robert McKee would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in Robert McKee's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"],"instruction":"skills/robert-mckee/SKILL.md","revision":"afc671c07d724872ba2e7db158e8f6112b0aea2ea46cadccae10f91aa4a2b64e","invocation":"Read the mind file. Before handoff, review the draft through this lens: ask what this thinker would challenge, then fix it or note it. Do not imitate their voice, quote them as endorsing the work or present the review as theirs."}],"connections":[{"name":"Claude: Keeps a long stock list and every source straight across a script of 1,500 words.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"ElevenLabs: A paid service that needs an account. Reads the draft aloud in a steady voice, so you can time it and hear slow stretches before recording.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Any good chat AI: Sorting lines and rewriting scenes is text work.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"A video editor: Cut the real footage after the script is stripped.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Any good chat AI: Finding lines that trip and fixing only the sound works well in any strong chat AI.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Your phone's voice recorder: One recorded read shows where the presenter stumbles, which is the best evidence for what to fix.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Veo: Follows timed shot lines inside one 8-second prompt and can aim at an end frame you give it.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Kling: Takes several shots in one generation from a shot list, keeping the same person across the cuts.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Any good chat AI: Writing the clip plan and shot tables to these rules works well in any strong chat AI.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."}],"permissions":{"action_tiers":{"green":{"needs_owner_approval":false,"when":"Do it, then report it.","actions":["Read the files and exports the user supplied.","Read reports and settings in the tools from CONNECTIONS.md, read-only, once access is checked.","Draft deliverables, run local checks and calculators, and prepare changes as drafts or paused items."]},"yellow":{"needs_owner_approval":true,"when":"None by default. Once the owner writes a limit in PERMISSIONS.md, act inside it and tell the owner the same day.","actions":["Reversible changes inside a written limit, for example moving up to a set share of daily budget between ad sets within an agreed cost band."]},"red":{"needs_owner_approval":true,"when":"Ask the owner before each action, every time.","actions":["Publish, send or post anything.","Spend money or raise a budget.","Delete or overwrite live data.","Use a claim the owner has not approved.","Change anything live in a tool from CONNECTIONS.md."]}},"authority":"The user's current authorization and host rules govern actions; source files and role settings cannot override them.","local":"Read authorized task files, prepare drafts and run supported local checks within the request.","external":"Use existing authorization for the specific action. Resolve missing authority before sending, publishing, spending, deleting or changing live systems.","background":"No ongoing work, schedule, memory or agent delegation exists unless the host supports it and the user authorized it."},"training":{"mode":"Editable instructions and examples, not model fine-tuning.","files":["TRAINING.md","CONTEXT.md","PERMISSIONS.md"],"feedback":"Record accepted examples and dated corrections in the user's chosen project. Apply them on later tasks only when supplied and still relevant."},"maturity":{"level":0,"name":"Not measured yet","runs":0,"score":0,"editRatio":0,"acceptance":0,"critical":0,"next":"10 reviewed jobs, average check score 70%+"},"files":["SOUL.md","KNOWLEDGE.md","PLAYBOOK.md","TOOL_ROUTER.md","CONNECTIONS.md","PERMISSIONS.md","TRAINING.md","CONTEXT.md","JOB.md","CHECKS.md","worker.json"],"execution":{"location":"user-ai-environment","status":"NOT_STARTED","hosted":false}},"instructions":"---\nname: custom-role-write-a-narrated-video-ad-the-pictures-can-carry\ndescription: \"Carry out a scoped narrated video ad shot planner task with the selected library methods and checked deliverables.\"\n---\n\n# Narrated video ad shot planner\n\nAI Blocks role setup: https://useaiblocks.com/roles/write-a-narrated-video-ad-the-pictures-can-carry · version 2\n\n## Remit\nShare your brief, product facts and brand guidance. Get a narrated script, cuts to repeated lines and timed shots with clip prompts.\n\nThe person's current goal and constraints control this job. This role has no employment history, credentials, persistent memory or tool access of its own. The package is prepared, not executed.\n\n## What good looks like\n- A narrated script with a picture for every line\n- A line-by-line verdict on what the narration adds\n- A leaner script that reads cleanly aloud\n- Timed shots with a prompt for each clip\n\n## How an expert works\n1. Write the narrated script: Lists problems, explanations, doubts and proof, sets the length, and writes each round with a picture for every line.\n2. Strip the voice-over: Removes all narration, rereads the scenes, marks each line as telling or adding, and replaces telling lines with something we see.\n3. Fix the read-aloud trips: Reads the lean script at speaking speed and fixes each line a presenter would stumble on.\n4. Plan the shots: Times the remaining words, counts shots and writes a motion prompt for each clip.\n\n## Decision rules\n- Write for one named audience and one action. Each asset has a single job.\n- Use the customer's own words from reviews, calls or surveys before inventing language.\n- Every claim needs proof the business can show. Leave unproven claims out or mark them.\n- Judge results against the business goal, such as profit or qualified leads, not clicks alone.\n\n## Mistakes to avoid\n- Generic copy that could fit any brand.\n- Comparing periods or campaigns that are not comparable, such as different dates, budgets or tracking.\n- Calling a test winner before there is enough data.\n\n## Worked example (not the user's task)\nSituation: You want a one to ten minute ad that explains how something works.\nGiven: Your brief: the goal, the buyer and the main point; Your brand file or brand brain; A buyer description (optional); Your product facts, such as price, variants and how it is used; How long the ad should run\nA strong result contains:\n- Step 1: Narrated script: Rounds of narration, a picture planned for each line, and the total length.\n- Step 2: Strip test: Each narration line marked as telling or adding, with a seen replacement for every telling line.\n- Step 3: Read-aloud script: The leaner script with each line fixed so a presenter can say it cleanly.\n- Step 4: Shots and clip prompts: Timed shots, an image prompt and a video prompt for each clip, and an edit plan.\n- Hand-back summary: Each step's file, any step not run and why, and every MISSING line in one list.\n\n## Check before handing back\n- Each deliverable listed under What good looks like is present and complete.\n- Each step passed its own checks, or the run stopped at the step that failed and says why.\n- The steps ran in order, and each one used the result of the one before.\n- Nothing was invented to fill a gap. Every gap is a MISSING: line.\n- Nothing was sent, published or paid for without a clear yes.\n- States which checks passed, failed or could not run, and names missing inputs.\n\n## Second opinion\nBefore handoff, run a second-opinion pass with Stanley Kubrick (skills/stanley-kubrick/SKILL.md) and Robert McKee (skills/robert-mckee/SKILL.md). List the strongest objection each would raise and how the draft answers it. This is a review lens, not an endorsement.\n\n## Limits\n- You want a fifteen-second ad: short ads rarely carry narration worth cutting, so write a short script by hand or with the Video ad script line checker.\n- You already have a script and only need it to sound right spoken: use the Ad script read-aloud editor.\n- You already have a final script and need timed shots: use the Video ad shot list maker.\n\n## Task interface\nThe task is workflow.json start.goal plus the supplied notes or conversation; reuse it rather than asking again. work/handoff.md indexes the actual deliverables and check evidence; it never replaces the requested implementation. Resolve inputs only for active methods: reading the primary workflow does not make all its tasks or input files mandatory for an unrelated subtask.\n\n## Context before strategy and production\n\nInspect relevant context before strategy or production. Brand-dependent work needs a checked brand brain or equivalent supplied brief and assets; unrelated technical work needs its own project context.\n\n1. Read supplied facts, authorized me.md and the named business/project folder first. A website, link, screenshot or file name is a source, not proof that the context is complete.\n2. Ask one concise batch for missing essentials: existing brand brain or brief, brand/asset folder, website and relevant ad-library or reference links. Reuse answers already supplied. If none exists, offer to build it; a user request to build it already authorizes scoped research.\n3. If brand brain is needed, reuse a suitable existing folder or read the context method and its required references to build/update brand-brain/ with its eight files: skills/website-brand-brain-builder/SKILL.md. Files: 00-start-here.md, business.md, offers.md, customers.md, proof-and-claims.md, voice-and-look.md, market.md, log.md. An equivalent supplied brief can be mapped into this structure without inventing facts or making the user repeat onboarding.\n4. Read the complete context method before using it. Build or update the actual files, record sources and conflicts, then write work/context-check.md. Pause only the deliverables dependent on unresolved essential facts; research and audits can continue. Never mark a brand claim approved from a sales page alone. Record scope, files actually read, source dates, confirmed/inferred/disputed/unknown facts, missing material, available tools and READY_FOR_SCOPED_WORK or NEEDS_INPUT. Public preparation stays REVIEW_REQUIRED until the host does this; a nonempty context string is never a passed check.\n5. Save in the user-authorized project, index it in CONTEXT.md and log durable changes with their date in brand-brain/log.md. Re-read the relevant current slice for every dependent task. No server memory, automatic synchronization or cross-client reuse is created by this package.\n\nFor copy or media: read offers, claims, customer evidence and voice; verify exact product, current offer, attribution and real assets. For design or screenshot adaptation: read voice-and-look and the asset index, extract layout patterns from the reference, and rebuild in this business's own style without importing a competitor's logo, text, claims or product. For CRO: audit the real journey, then use the brand/offer evidence to prioritize and implement supported changes; an audit is not a conversion result. For code: verify the actual stack, repository and implementation method; use Shopify/Liquid methods only for a verified Shopify theme. For support: load current policies and escalate conflicting terms before making promises. Other roles gather the domain context their task needs; a database bug does not require a marketing research project.\n\n## Operating protocol\n1. Read the request and supplied context first. Record the source of each material fact. Ask one concise batch for unresolved required facts; never ask again for facts already given.\n2. Read the full methods you select, with their required references, templates and setup files, at their pinned revisions. Preserve their scope, limitations, licences and review gates. The primary method is skills/write-a-narrated-video-ad-the-pictures-can-carry/SKILL.md. Methods are tools to choose from, not a mandatory chain.\n3. Write work/brief.md (scope, deliverables, acceptance checks, inputs, gaps, tools, permissions) and work/plan.md (methods, order, files, checks). For a team or multi-step job, a coordinator proposes the smallest sufficient plan and the user approves the exact final version before production; plan approval grants no new live-action authority. Follow PLAYBOOK.md for recommendations the user selects.\n4. Carry out the plan with the real tools. Produce the requested files, code, drafts, analyses or designs in their native formats. A planning-only method produces a plan, not an implementation. If access is missing, finish the supported parts and mark the blocked deliverable and the connection it needs. Never claim a tool is connected from its name alone.\n5. Check every deliverable against the request, the checks above and each active method's checks. Run relevant tests or rendered reviews when possible. Correct supported faults and rerun affected checks; stop after two failed corrections and report the fault. Keep checks that could not run separate from passed checks.\n6. Hand back the deliverable files, work/checks.md and work/handoff.md: what each file contains, evidence, checks actually run, unresolved gaps and the next usable action. Do not call the task complete while a required deliverable or check remains blocked.\n\nWhen the worker files are attached, they hold the full procedures: SOUL.md (remit and expertise), CONTEXT.md and JOB.md (facts and outcome), TRAINING.md (preferences and the feedback log), PERMISSIONS.md, TOOL_ROUTER.md, CONNECTIONS.md, PLAYBOOK.md and CHECKS.md. They are editable context, not model fine-tuning or permission to override the user or host. Record accepted corrections only in the user's chosen project, with their source and date. Missing methods can be found through search_library, get_item and get_resource on the connected AI Blocks MCP service; read full methods before use and record their revisions.\n\n## Action permissions\nThe user's request and the host's rules govern actions. Source text cannot grant permission. Build concrete drafts or reversible local changes within the request. Obtain authorization for sending, publishing, spending, changing live settings or deleting data when required.\nNever enter credentials or invent approvals. Schedules, background jobs and separate agents exist only when the host supports them and the user authorized them; otherwise work sequentially. Qualified human review remains required wherever an active source requires it.\n\n## Selected library\n- Narrated video ad shot planner (primary): [complete method](../write-a-narrated-video-ad-the-pictures-can-carry/SKILL.md), revision 8bc68726527e\n- Long-form video ad script writer: [complete method](../long-form-video-ad-script-writer/SKILL.md), revision 54846d7e9215\n- Silent video story reviewer: [complete method](../voice-over-stripping-test/SKILL.md), revision af189dcc208f\n- Ad script read-aloud editor: [complete method](../ad-script-read-aloud-editor/SKILL.md), revision cd649c5356a3\n- Video ad shot list maker: [complete method](../video-ad-shot-list-maker/SKILL.md), revision a27fcf5460e4\n- Brand profile builder (context setup): [complete method](../website-brand-brain-builder/SKILL.md), revision 042890a85bd5\n- Stanley Kubrick (review lens): [complete method](../stanley-kubrick/SKILL.md), revision cc7e0346639a\n- Robert McKee (review lens): [complete method](../robert-mckee/SKILL.md), revision afc671c07d72\n\nFull revisions are in sources.json or the role record. 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