kanban-video-orchestrator

Plan, set up, and monitor a multi-agent video production pipeline backed by Hermes Kanban. Use when the user wants to make ANY video — narrative film, product/marketing, music video, explainer, ASCII/terminal art, abstract/generative loop, comic, 3D, real-time/installation — and the work warrants decomposition into specialized profiles (writer, designer, animator, renderer, voice, editor, etc.) coordinated through a kanban board. Performs adaptive discovery to scope the brief, designs an appropriate team for the requested style, generates the setup script that creates Hermes profiles + initial kanban task, then helps monitor execution and intervene when tasks stall or fail. Routes scenes to whichever Hermes rendering / audio / design skill fits each beat (`ascii-video`, `manim-video`, `p5js`, `comfyui`, `touchdesigner-mcp`, `blender-mcp`, `pixel-art`, `baoyu-comic`, `claude-design`, `excalidraw`, `songsee`, `heartmula`, …) plus external APIs for TTS, image-gen, and image-to-video as needed.

Quality

96%

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Quality

Content

100%

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

An exemplary meta-skill body: tight, actionable, with a clearly sequenced workflow that includes validation checkpoints and intervention loops, and clean progressive disclosure to real reference files.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	Lean and assumes Claude's competence — no padding explaining what kanban or video is; every section (workflow, rules, file map) earns its place for a complex orchestration skill.	3 / 3
Actionability	Concrete copy-paste-ready commands ("hermes kanban watch --tenant <project-tenant>", "hermes profile create --clone", "kanban_comment") plus specific paths and named scripts (bootstrap_pipeline.py, monitor.py).	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	Six-step sequence (DISCOVER → BRIEF → TEAM DESIGN → SETUP → EXECUTE → MONITOR) with explicit checkpoints: brief confirmation before team design, "Verify API keys BEFORE firing" with check_key abort, and a monitor→intervene→re-run feedback loop.	3 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	Clear overview with well-signaled one-level-deep references (intake.md, role-archetypes.md, tool-matrix.md, kanban-setup.md, monitoring.md, examples.md), all of which resolve to real bundle files, plus a file map for navigation.	3 / 3
	Total	12 / 12 Passed

Description

92%

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong, specific, third-person description with explicit triggers and broad natural-term coverage. Its only weakness is the breadth of "ANY video," which overlaps with the many named single-purpose rendering skills it routes to.

Suggestions

Add a narrowing qualifier to the trigger to reduce conflict with single-purpose skills, e.g. "Use when the request is complex enough to warrant multiple specialist profiles coordinated through a kanban; for single-skill jobs use the matching skill directly."

Trim or move the long inline enumeration of route-target skills (ascii-video, manim-video, p5js, ...) into the body, keeping the description focused on the orchestration capability.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists multiple concrete actions in third person — "Performs adaptive discovery to scope the brief, designs an appropriate team..., generates the setup script..., then helps monitor execution and intervene" — matching the multiple-specific-actions anchor.	3 / 3
Completeness	Explicitly answers both what ("Plan, set up, and monitor a multi-agent video production pipeline backed by Hermes Kanban") and when ("Use when the user wants to make ANY video ... and the work warrants decomposition").	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	Strong coverage of terms users naturally say — "narrative film, product/marketing, music video, explainer, ASCII/terminal art... comic, 3D, real-time/installation" plus "wants to make ANY video".	3 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The kanban-backed multi-profile decomposition niche is distinctive, but "ANY video" plus naming ~12 overlapping rendering skills creates real conflict with single-purpose skills for simple requests.	2 / 3
	Total	11 / 12 Passed

Validation

81%

Warnings & errors only

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 13 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
metadata_version	'metadata.version' is missing	Warning
metadata_field	'metadata' should map string keys to string values	Warning
frontmatter_unknown_keys	Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata	Warning

	Total	13 / 16 Passed

Repository: NousResearch/hermes-agent
Path: optional-skills/creative/kanban-video-orchestrator/SKILL.md
Commit: 4c9628e

Reviewed: about 15 hours ago

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