Scarcest thing isn’t money (tease options → reveal)

Template (assume duration 10 unless scaled): 0–3s THE SCARCEST THING ISN’T MONEY; 3–8s two or three quick option teases on screen—e.g. 3–5 ATTENTION?, 5–6.5 TRUST?, 6.5–8 TIME? (user can swap candidates); 8–10s reveal line naming the one answer they want (e.g. IT’S ATTENTION—must be ≤6 words). English subtitles with exact windows. Default duration is 10 when unspecified.

Dependencies: WERYAI_API_KEY + Node.js 18+. scripts/video_gen.js + WERYAI_VIDEO_API.md. No other Cursor skills required.

Prerequisites

• - WERYAI_API_KEY must be set; Node 18+. Prefer public https image URLs; if the assembled scripts/video_gen.js supports local file paths, review/verify the script and explicitly consent before local read-and-upload to WeryAI.
• Non-empty model.

Security, secrets, and API hosts

• - WERYAI_API_KEY: Secret; requires.env / primaryEnv.
• API hosts fixed in video_gen.js.
• Local image handling disclosure: Prefer public https image URLs. If the assembled scripts/video_gen.js supports local file paths, it may read a local image and upload it to WeryAI to obtain a public URL; require review / verification and explicit consent before using that path.
• Higher assurance: Prefer a short-lived or isolated environment; review scripts/video_gen.js before production use. Verify whether the runtime can read local image files and upload them to WeryAI, and obtain explicit consent before using that path.

Prompt expansion (mandatory)

• - Duration: Default 10; 5 or 15 when allowed and requested.
• Timeline scaling: Rescale 0–3 / 3–8 / 8–10 and internal tease splits proportionally; keep thesis → teases → reveal order.

Visuals: Coins dissolving to sand, hourglass, eye macro, handshake silhouette, clock abstraction—luxury grade, warm gold accents optional; morphs every ~1.5s.

Typography: Bold sans, outline, lower third; question marks on tease lines.

Audio: Soft tick + reveal sting if generate_audio true.

Negatives (Kling): illegible text, watermark.

User must confirm the final reveal word before submit if you inferred it.

Confirmation: Full expanded prompt.

Niche checklist

• - Teases should be distinct concepts, not synonyms.
• Reveal should feel earned—visual points at the answer as it appears.

Workflow

1. 1. Text / image / multi-image (SEEDANCE20, ≤3).
2. Collect candidate list + final answer (or you propose both for approval).
3. Expand → validate → confirm → wait.
4. [Video](url).

CLI reference

~~~sh
node scripts/videogen.js wait --json '{"model":"KLINGV30PRO","prompt":"…","duration":10,"aspectratio":"9:16","generateaudio":true,"negative_prompt":"illegible text, watermark, garbled captions"}'
node scripts/videogen.js wait --json '{"model":"SEEDANCE20","prompt":"…","duration":10,"aspectratio":"9:16","resolution":"720p","generate_audio":true}'
~~~

Full reference: WERYAI_VIDEO_API.md.

Definition of done

Video or error; prompt includes scaled second ranges for thesis, tease block (with sub-splits), and reveal.

Boundaries (out of scope)

• - Not a finance or therapy authority—hook content only.
• resources/WERYAI_VIDEO_API.md for CLI; no negative_prompt on Seedance.
• Multi-image only SEEDANCE20, max 3.

Example prompts

• - INLINECODE24
• INLINECODE25
• INLINECODE26
• INLINECODE27

Model and API constraints (frozen for this skill)

Text-to-video

Image-to-video

Recommended models

Default parameters

Text-to-video (primary)

Agree teases + reveal → timed captions → wait.

Image-to-video (optional)

Object still → symbol morph under same windows.

Tips

• - Series: end with NEXT EP? only if user wants; default is clean reveal.
• Translate Chinese brief to English on-screen lines unless user opts out.

Packaged as scarcest-not-money-video-gen.