I ran a real test: OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra against Anthropic's Fable 5.1. Same skill, same prompt, no assets handed over. Neither one got my HeyGen avatar, my ElevenLabs voice, or any footage. Each had to go get all of it itself — find my avatar, pull my voice clone, do its own research, grab its own B-roll and screenshots, and edit the finished video start to finish. Here's the exact prompt I gave both of them: --------------- I need you to take me from idea to a finished Reels video. I want you to create an engaging and professional video about GPT-6 Astra. You need to use Tom Lyons voice clone and a HeyGen avatar. Start the video off by telling everyone this is not Tom and that you orchestrated the entire video. You planned it out, you researched it, you grabbed all the B-roll, you grabbed the screenshots, you edited everything, and you produced the finished video—which is why they're watching it right now. I want this to feel professional, like it was edited by a human using Hyperframes. Do not give me a draft or a POC; give me a finished, working version that I can post on my Reels channel. I've put the skill used in Cloud Code for creating the styles that we normally use in the folder. So, take what you can from that to help you produce what you need. --------------- The skill both of them used: **the real Commander Tom production skill, made safe to share** — the show bible, the motion-graphics engine, and a step-by-step guide to running the same challenge yourself. Watch the video, then try the prompt yourself and tell me which one you'd have picked.

Reel Factory is a Claude Code skill that takes one raw talking-head recording and produces the finished vertical cuts you would otherwise spend an evening assembling: burned-in captions timed to the words that were actually spoken, motion-graphic cards carrying the numbers the video is arguing about, a separate platform-neutral cut that ends before any platform-specific call to action, a YouTube thumbnail, an Instagram cover frame with the hook on it, and per-platform copy that is scored against a hard threshold and rewritten for up to five rounds. Between each of those stages sits a gate that either passes or stops the run, including one that re-transcribes the rendered file to prove the neutral cut does not still say "comment TEARDOWN". The skill ends at finished files on disk. Nothing in it can post on your behalf, because nothing in it can post at all. Just hadn the link to your AI assistant, Claude, Codex, Gemini, Open Claw, Hermes Claw, and tell them to work with what they can. Claude shoudl be able to get everything going, you might have to do some work for other AIs. https://github.com/tdlyons/reel-factory

Catch the AI in your writing. There's a specific way AI writes that no person ever does: fake-profound, self-narrating, allergic to a plain sentence. The "not X — it's Y" reframe. The mic-drop closing line. "Worth naming." Calling everything "load-bearing." Once you see it, you can't unsee it, and it's showing up in emails, posts, and blogs everywhere. SlopCheck names those patterns and strips them out. It's a writing skill you can install, and a set of rules you can paste into any tool. What it does Three modes: - Guide — the model loads the rules before it writes, so the slop never shows up. - Detect — paste a draft, get every tic flagged by name and a 0–100 "human score." - Rewrite — get a plain-English version back, with a one-line note on what was cut.