Editor Plan And Check

Requires

A running Scrollmark editor whose commands you can call: the SocialGPT editor chat, or scrollmark mcp from @scrollmark/cli for a coding agent. Without it, the brief-first, plan-once, check-once discipline still applies to editing in any tool.

Aim for three rounds: gather, plan, check. Every extra plan costs the user a round and an extra undo step.

1. Pin down the brief

Settle these from the request and timeline_describe before writing anything:

• What changes, and what stays. Keep the user's own clips, text they wrote and edits they made unless they asked to change them.
• Platform. One they named, else the editor's safe zone, else generic. The canvas size is fixed; you cannot change the aspect ratio.
• Length. A number they gave. Without one, keep the strongest complete takes; do not cut to a length nobody asked for.
• Look. Caption kit from the editor-captions skill. Keep the existing look unless they asked for a new one.

Use a sensible default for anything unsaid, and name the defaults you chose in your reply. Ask only when the edit cannot be made without the answer.