Explainer video

What it asks you for

Topicrequired

What to explain.

Length

Target seconds.

Audience

Assumed knowledge.

What it tells the AI to do

The full instructions, exactly as they run.

Build a ~{{ seconds | default(90) }}s explainer on: {{ topic }}

Audience: {{ audience | default("general") }}.

1. **Script first**, and cut it to length before making anything. Roughly 150
   words per minute — a script that overruns produces a rushed read, which is
   the usual reason explainers fail.
2. **Visuals**: use `diagram-from-text` for anything structural. Generated
   imagery cannot render labels, and an explainer is mostly labels.
3. **Voice**: `inference speech`, then time the visuals to the VO, not the
   other way round.
4. **Assemble** with captions burned in.

Deliver the video, the script, and the diagrams separately — the diagrams
usually get reused.
## Delivery

Write the finished artifact into Drive. Never upload a user's content to a
third-party file host (`0x0.st`, `catbox.moe`, `transfer.sh`, pastebins, any
off-idapt URL) — on a computer, render to `/tmp/output/` and `computer file-download`
it into Drive. If you catch yourself reaching for `curl -F`, stop: you already
hold the artifact.

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• explainer
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