> An installable agent skill for AI Content Drop. Machine-readable copy: > https://aicontentdrop.com/skills/video-agent/SKILL.md. > Ships with the aicontentdrop package, and is listed in > /skills/index.json.

Handing the whole job to Drop, the video agent

A drop is one piece of work that carries a brief from start to finish: it researches ads that already work in the category, proposes concepts, writes a storyboard, renders, and assembles, on a board the person can open. The drop an agent starts here and the one a person starts on the website are the same record, planned by the same agent and charged the same way.

The five tools are start_drop, ask_drop, get_drop, approve_drop_spend and list_drops. Only approve_drop_spend can make a drop charge credits.

1. Check that the drop is here

The drop tools appear on tools/list only for accounts that can use them; the agent is opening to accounts in stages. When they are not listed, say so in one sentence and do the job with the precise tools instead:

Never imitate a drop by chaining those tools while calling it one.

2. Offer the drop for the right size of job

A single clip is faster and cheaper through generate_video. Offer a drop when the person asks for a campaign, a week of videos, several videos from one brief, an ad modelled on what competitors run, or when they want the whole job handled.

3. Open it, then send the brief

1. start_drop with the goal in one sentence. It opens the drop and returns a

run_id; nothing is planned and nothing is charged yet. budget_credits is an optional ceiling for the whole drop. Setting it is a spending decision, so set it only when the person gives a number.

2. ask_drop with that run_id and the brief. A useful brief says: the product

or subject, who it is for, what the video is for, the length, the format (vertical, square, wide), and any assets. Pass images or clips as public https URLs in attachments (at most 8). A finished product ad needs a product image and a presenter image; attach them or expect the drop to ask.

The drop may answer with questions before it plans. Relay them to the person as they are and send the answers with ask_drop. Do not answer for the person.

4. Follow a turn that outlives the call

ask_drop returns within about 40 seconds. When a turn runs longer, the call comes back with status: running and an empty answer; the turn keeps going. Do not send the message again (a second send while it runs is refused as "already working on the last message"). Call get_drop every 15 seconds instead; its answer carries the reply once it lands.

get_drop returns the phase (intake, research, concept, plan, produce, assemble, distribute, done), the status, the latest answer, artifacts keyed by kind, artifact_counts, the board_link, credits_spent, the drop's own narration in trace, and pending_approval. Report a change of phase or a finished artifact, not every poll. Stop after 15 minutes of no change and hand over the board link.

5. Approve the exact step, with the number

When a step would charge credits, the drop stops with status: waiting_approval and pending_approval holds task_id, quote_id, credits (the ceiling for that step) and what (the step in plain words). Ask in words, with the number:

> The drop wants to render the two-shot ad now: up to 152 credits, charged only > if it succeeds. Go ahead?

Read the figure from pending_approval.credits, never from memory. Then call approve_drop_spend with the run_id, and the task_id and quote_id exactly as given. decision: "decline" cancels that step instead.

• Approving the same quote twice does nothing the second time; it never charges twice.
• confirm_each is the only approval mode: every paid step asks. Approving never

lifts budget_credits.

• When a price has lapsed, the approval is refused with QUOTE_EXPIRED and

nothing is released. The drop prices the step again by itself: read get_drop (the quote_id is null for about a minute while it re-prices) and ask again only if the number changed.

What the drop makes depends on the brief. A product ad is cut from two or three shots (10 or 15 seconds); a single take is one clip priced as one clip; research, concepts, storyboards and the board cost nothing. Each rendered step shows its own quote.

6. Pick up an earlier drop

list_drops returns the account's drops, newest first, with phase, status, credits_spent and board link. Resume with get_drop on the run_id. A drop with status: done takes no more messages; start a new one.

7. Refusals

What to hand back

The board link, the finished videos with their links, credits_spent for the whole drop, and any step still waiting for a decision with its number, so the person can finish it on the website.

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