B-Roll Finder — skill methodology

A reusable methodology for sourcing and placing b-roll on talking-head video. Genericized from a working agent skill. Adapt paths and brand tokens to your own setup.

⛔ USER OVERRIDES ARE LAW — and they persist

When the user states a preference or ban mid-run ("no memes", "no text cards", "nothing political"), it applies IMMEDIATELY and for the rest of the session, AND gets written into the profile's Guardrails right then — not at the end. A banned category is never sourced again, never proposed again, never "just one candidate to check". Violating a stated ban is the worst failure this skill can make: it tells the user the agent doesn't listen.

⛔ STEP 0 — ONBOARDING GATE (run this check before ANYTHING else, every session)

Open the profile (TASTE.md or the user's fork). The ONLY thing that skips onboarding is a literal Confirmed-by: <name> (<date>) line at the top of the profile. No line → ask the four onboarding questions (below) out loud, write the answers into the profile, add the line. This is NOT optional and NOT inferable:

• Do NOT infer the answers from CLAUDE.md, memory, prior conversations, or this profile's prose — even if you are confident you know them. Asking IS the feature.
• The shipped TASTE.md is an EXAMPLE, even if the current user is its original author. Author ≠ confirmed.
• A CLAUDE.md pointer that says "load my taste profile" does not count as confirmation either — check for the line.
• "redo my profile" re-triggers onboarding at any time.

The one rule that governs everything