A Recipe Book for AI Agents That Make Movie Commentary Videos

What it does

narrator-ai-cli-skill is essentially a structured instruction manual — a SKILL.md file plus reference tables — that teaches AI agents how to operate the narrator-ai-cli video generation tool. You tell the agent “make a comedy narration video,” and the skill translates that into the correct sequence of CLI commands, resource selections, and error-handling checks.

The interesting bit

The project treats agent prompting as a software distribution format. Instead of hoping your LLM hallucinates the right API flags, you drop this skill into OpenClaw, Windsurf, or Claude Code and get a deterministic pipeline that includes ~100 pre-indexed movies, 146 BGM tracks, 63 voices, and 90+ narration templates, plus explicit rules for cost estimation and recovery from 18 API error codes.

Key highlights

• Two distinct pipelines: Fast Path for original narration and Standard Path for adapted narration
• Bundled reference data covering film catalogs, music, voice options, and visual templates
• Built-in guardrails: mandatory confirmation rules, language chaining, polling patterns, and budget checks before task creation
• Comprehensive error handling with specific recovery actions for all 18 documented API error codes
• Verified compatibility across OpenClaw, Windsurf, Claude Code, Cursor, and Tencent’s WorkBuddy/QClaw

Caveats

• Requires the separate narrator-ai-cli tool and a proprietary API key; the skill itself generates no video
• The underlying video service is commercial and requires email or WeChat contact to obtain access

Verdict

Grab it if you’re wiring AI agents into media pipelines and need a reference-grade skill format. Skip it if you want standalone open-source video generation — this is an orchestration layer that leans entirely on a separate, commercially gated CLI.