pick-mood

Pick the best `./songs/<mood>/` folder for a clip's background music. Reads the clip transcript and asks Claude to choose one mood label from the live list of mood subfolders. Emits a one-line mood st

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pick-mood

Background music shouldn't be random. This skill reads a clip's transcript and picks one of the existing ./songs/<mood>/ folders to source from. The mood list is generated live from the filesystem — add or rename a folder under ./songs/ and the next run will offer it.

Invoke

.claude/skills/pick-mood/pick-mood.sh <clip_transcript.json> <out.txt>
  • input — clip-local word-timed transcript JSON
  • out — written with a single line: the chosen mood folder name (or ALL SONGS as a safe fallback)

How

  • Lists subdirectories of $SHORTS_ROOT/songs/ (skipping dotfiles).
  • Builds a prompt with the available moods and the clip transcript.
  • Calls claude -p --output-format text.
  • Parser strips quoting/whitespace and validates the reply against the live mood list. Any miss → ALL SONGS.

Caveats

  • All songs in the library are instrumental, so the mood label is judged purely on emotional/energetic fit with the clip's content — not lyrics.
  • Cached by transcript mtime.