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Day 3 Build

As a building block towards an automated YouTube channel, I've created the following skill and a partial workflow:

Name:

/history-narrative

Description:

Based on user's desired topic (eg. Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire) and duration, scour the web with perplexity and generate a narrative. Writing style references a guideline to keep audiences engaged, including planting tension pivots and curiosity gaps every ~12s, and using the personality of my channel.

Adjustments:

The first iteration had misleading wording with the intention of creating a hook. The skill was updated to ensure information is factual and not prone to misinterpretation.
Style guide was extracted into a global narrative-style.md reference file so that it can be re-used for skills dedicated to other topics (eg. travel, politics, stock market, etc.)

Output

5-min narrative on the Byzantine Empire following guidelines (attached opening here only)
The narrative is then used to plan graphics, get approval from user, before generating images via nano banana
Images are fed to an open-source /whiteboard-animation skill to create whiteboard animation

Next steps

Simplify graphics and adjust timing of whiteboard-animation to keep rendering easy on the eyes
Created /map-generation skill to represent armies moving/engaging -> to be optimized, using HTML/CSS/JS for now
Looking into Nate's resources on hyperframes to automate video creation, remember preferences, and evolve

Can't wait to see the first video come to fruition!

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Day 3 Build