Route video production requests to the right pipeline

This skill routes a video-production brief to the right production line, Generate, Compose, Edit, or an automatic cross-modal AUTO plan, and locks that decision before production begins. It preserves the routing rules from the official OrkasVideoStudio video-router skill (upstream commit dd4a0f40b2bc6c6b0fe6f2e732c9540ffffefe08, MIT licensed), adding catalog metadata, examples, and limitations without bundling the OrkasVideoStudio runtime itself. It describes what to decide, not tool mechanics, and only chooses and locks a route - it does not render, edit, or generate media itself.

Use it before production, whenever a request asks to make, compose, generate, edit, repurpose, or finish a video, or when a mixed brief needs one explicit primary path or an AUTO end-to-end route. Do not use it to author compositions, generate assets, edit media, or render output - hand those tasks to the relevant production skill after routing. If production, rendering, or paid tools are explicitly unavailable, it still selects the line and returns a complete unexecuted production package (assumptions, script, timed storyboard, exact copy and captions, visual/audio direction, rights-safe asset provenance, export target, and QA checklist) rather than withholding it.

It classifies a brief along three capability axes: Generate (A) for AI-generated photoreal or cinematic footage; Compose (B) for deterministic HTML composition such as explainers, kinetic typography, captions, lower-thirds, and data viz, the default for explainer/animation work; and Edit (C) for intelligent editing of supplied footage, including evidence-based selection, deterministic cut/join/reframe/caption/audio work, and bounded semantic AI editing. Decision rules classify the dominant work object from the brief's language ("explain/animate" leads to Compose primary; "make footage of/cinematic" leads to Generate primary; "cut/trim/repurpose" leads to Edit primary), aspect ratio sets the canvas (16:9 -> 1920x1080, 9:16 -> 1080x1920, 1:1 -> 1080x1080), and supplied reference media is classified as reproduce, edit, or guide before execution. When a deliverable genuinely spans more than one axis, such as trimming supplied footage, adding a generated opener, and composing stats with narration, the skill routes to AUTO end-to-end, which sequences the axes through one cross-modal plan (stage-plan builds the EDL, stage-assemble walks it) while still naming a primary via the plan's delivery_promise (source_led, motion_led, compose_led, or hybrid). Once a primary axis is locked in the proposal, it must not be silently switched mid-run; a wrong initial choice is surfaced to the user and re-confirmed instead.

Preserves the upstream OrkasVideoStudio routing logic and its stage-plan/stage-assemble workflow names, though those stages themselves require the separately-installed OrkasVideoStudio runtime; generation provider access, cost, licensing, and safety constraints are explicitly outside this router's scope.

Teams or agents handling video-production requests who need a consistent, pre-production decision about whether to generate, compose, or edit, and whether the job needs all three woven together, before any rendering work starts, so the primary path is named and locked rather than drifting mid-project.