slopfiles
The skill pack we use to produce The Slop Files series. Brief becomes 6 first-frame/last-frame video prompts in minutes.
Cinematic series production, scripted as a skill. Built for our flagship investigative show — open-sourced so anyone can produce serialized video at scale.
The Problem
Producing one good video is hard. Producing five in a series, with consistent aesthetic, voice, and visual continuity, is brutal. Most series die after episode 2 because production overhead compounds.
What It Does
- 01Brief becomes 6 scene specifications with first/last frame prompts
- 02Visual continuity locked across episodes via shared style config
- 03Per-episode metadata and social cut prompts auto-generated
Built for The Slop Files
slopfiles is the production pipeline we use to make The Slop Files — WhyStrohm's flagship investigative series about AI slop, brand voice drift, and the founder content bottleneck.
Each episode follows the same structure: 6 scenes, each with a first frame and a last frame for fal.ai's first-frame/last-frame video generation. The skill enforces visual continuity (lighting, color palette, atmospheric details) across all episodes so the series feels coherent.
What you get per episode
slopfiles-ep01/
├── BRIEF.md
├── stills/ ← 11 source frames
├── scripts/animate-scenes.py ← fal.ai automation
├── narration/ ← per-scene VO
└── output/
├── clips/ ← 6 animated clips
└── final/ ← composited episode
Production cost per episode: roughly $2-5 in fal.ai spend, 3-4 hours of human time.
Why open-source the production engine
We built slopfiles for ourselves. We open-sourced it because the bottleneck for serialized video isn't a tool — it's a system. Anyone can use Kling. Almost nobody can ship 5 episodes with locked visual continuity, narration alignment, and per-episode metadata in a week.
If you want to run your own investigative series — different topic, different aesthetic — fork the skill, swap the style config, run it.
Install
git clone https://github.com/whystrohm/slopfiles.git ~/.claude/skills/slopfiles
Full docs and the production brief template on GitHub →
How It Composes
Sits next to shotkit in the production layer. shotkit handles general video; slopfiles handles serialized investigative content. Both consume brand-config.json from media-tsunami.
Related Skills
shotkit
Pre-production for founder-led video at scale. Brief becomes storyboard, shot specs, and per-generator prompts in minutes.
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The empirical layer. Extracts brand voice as executable code — cadence, vocabulary, forbidden words, exemplar sentences — serialized as a CLAUDE.md any LLM can load.
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