Intake

The only job of this skill is: get one raw file safely into a properly named project folder. Nothing else touches picture or sound yet.

1. Name the job

Job names are kebab-case titles about the content (why-your-standups-suck), never the camera filename (C0043.MP4). If the user gave you a filename and no title, look at the footage or ask for a one-line description and derive a short kebab-case title from it — don't just slugify the filename.

2. Scaffold the folder

scripts/new-project.sh <job-name>

This creates projects/<job-name>/ with raw/ audio/ assets/ broll/ outputs/ hf-graphics/ transcript/ .cache/, drops in finalize.sh and prune.sh (generated from lib/templates/, already executable), an empty transcript/corrections.json, and hf-graphics/PROJECT.md (the resume doc for the graphics build — read this at the start of every future session touching this job).

It refuses to run if the folder already exists, and warns (but doesn't block) if the name still looks like a camera filename.

3. Copy the raw file in

COPY, never move. The original file the user filmed stays wherever it already lives; raw/ is this pipeline's own copy.

cp "<source file>" "projects/<job-name>/raw/"

If there's more than one file for this job (multiple angles, a second take), only the primary take goes in raw/ — everything else (extra angles, cutaway footage) goes in broll/. The rough-cut skill expects exactly one file in raw/.

Verify the copy before moving on:

ffprobe -v error -show_entries format=duration,size -of default=noprint_wrappers=1 "projects/<job-name>/raw/<file>"

4. Hand off

Intake is done. Move straight to /rough-cut — that's the "rough cut this" entry point and the only slow step (transcription) in the whole default path.