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The model-agnostic AI-video router and brief — the counterpart to image-prompt. Use when someone asks "which AI video tool should I use," "make an …

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By Frank Heijdenrijk, MIT licence. Shared here with credit.

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The router + brief for AI video — the counterpart to image-prompt, sitting above the video tool mini-skills. It generates nothing itself: it names the job, writes a portable brief, and points to the right tool.

The POV: own the job, rent the tool

In AI video the tools die and the leaderboard churns weekly — Sora launched to hype and was discontinued within a year; Runway led the benchmark at launch and fell out of the top 10 months later. So never marry a vendor. Define the job in portable terms, route to whatever wins this quarter, and keep the brief tool-agnostic so a dead vendor is a one-day swap. There is no single best AI video tool — only a best tool per job.

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