civilwar-letterifier

85 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a media skill usually calls an AI service over the internet.

By delorenj/skills (GitHub) · media · 17 stars · scanned at commit ff21323

Rewrite any text as a solemn, slightly absurd 19th-century Civil War field dispatch (Ken Burns documentary voice), then optionally turn it into a multimodal video — period narration via ElevenLabs, the letter in fancy script on aged parchment, a mournful music bed, and a slow Ken Burns pan/zoom of the letter being read. Use when the user types /civilwar, asks to "civil-war-ify" or "Ken Burns" some text, or asks for a documentary-style letter video.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

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What this skill can do

Runs commands on your computer

The author does not mention this.

Found in 4 places.

civilwar-letterifier/SKILL.md, line 97node scripts/build.mjs --text "My dear colleagues, ...the period prose... Pray proceed without me." --out out/letter.mp4
civilwar-letterifier/SKILL.md, line 270cd remotion && npm install && npm run studio
civilwar-letterifier/scripts/letterify.mjs, line 37import {execFileSync} from 'node:child_process';

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civilwar-letterifier/scripts/letterify.mjs, line 47return execFileSync('op', ['read', value], {encoding: 'utf8'}).trim();

Can call paid AI services billed to you

This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README. Expected for a media skill.

Found in 1 place.

civilwar-letterifier/scripts/letterify.mjs, line 75const ENDPOINT = 'https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions';

Connects to the internet

The author does not mention this. Expected for a media skill.

Found in 1 place.

civilwar-letterifier/scripts/letterify.mjs, line 149const res = await fetch(ENDPOINT, {

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'civilwar-letterifier' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'civilwar-letterifier' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named civilwar-letterifier already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/delorenj/skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'ff2132360c4a12602f752a491f896043cb60584a' -- 'civilwar-letterifier' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'civilwar-letterifier' ~/.agents/skills/'civilwar-letterifier' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'civilwar-letterifier' ~/.claude/skills/'civilwar-letterifier' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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Score history

Date	Version	Score
2026-11-09	`ff21323`	85
2026-11-07	`f5cafc3`	95