@aicopycoders/exodus 2026.10.1600-beta.1 → 2026.10.1700-beta.1

package/assets/skills/exodus-video/SKILL.md

@@ -377,11 +377,19 @@ What the CLI prints, and what you tell the user:
   can't tell who says a line. The error names the line, and `--json` lists them
   under `lines`. Ask the user who says it, put the name in front of that line
   (`SAM: …`), and run the same command again.
-- **Today's refusal (exit 1, nothing started):** the description was too thin
-  to write from, the user has no working AI key for the tidy, or the AI call
-  failed. The answer is the format's own message (for example "Line 1 has no
-  speaker"). Ask the user for more detail about the ad, or for their AI key in
-  Settings, or lay the file out in the format below yourself. A description
+- **Too thin (`SCRIPT_TOO_THIN`, exit 1, nothing started):** the file only
+  described the ad, and there wasn't enough in it to write a script from. The
+  error says what is missing, in the dashboard's words ("There isn't enough
+  here to write a script from. Tell us what the product is."), and `--json`
+  lists the gaps under `missing` (`product`, `speaker`, `what-happens`). Ask
+  the user for what it names, add it to the file, and run the same command
+  again.
+- **Today's refusal (exit 1, nothing started):** the user has no working AI
+  key for the tidy, the AI call failed, or the server could not write a usable
+  script from a description. The answer is the format's own message (for
+  example "Line 1 has no speaker"). Ask the user for more detail about the ad,
+  or for their AI key in Settings, or lay the file out in the format below
+  yourself. A description
   that reports what someone says ("a guy says it stopped his crash") is
   sometimes refused this way (#3747): describe the ad without the reported
   words, or give the lines as a draft, and run it again.
@@ -391,8 +399,9 @@ What the CLI prints, and what you tell the user:
   already in the format, so it is not tidied or paid for again.
 
 **`--stop-at-script`** prints the script the run would start on and starts
-nothing (exit 0). Use it when the user wants to read a written or laid-out
-script before anything is spent. To go ahead, save the printed script to a file
+nothing (exit 0). A question or a description too thin to write from answers
+as above instead (exit 1). Use it when the user wants to read a written or
+laid-out script before anything is spent. To go ahead, save the printed script to a file
 and run the same command with `--script <that file>` and without the flag.
 `--json` answers `{ stoppedAtScript: true, script, tidied?, written? }`.
 

package/dist/commands/video.js

@@ -162,7 +162,8 @@ Options:
                        and says what it did. A description gets a script
                        written from it, printed, and the run starts on it. If
                        the server can't tell who says a line, it asks and
-                       starts nothing
+                       starts nothing. If a description is too thin to write
+                       from, it says what is missing and starts nothing
   --stop-at-script     Print the script the run would start on, and start
                        nothing (start, with --conceit). To read a written or
                        laid-out script first; send it back with --script
@@ -1633,16 +1634,21 @@ function scriptWrittenHead(written, started) {
 function writtenOf(value) {
     return typeof value === "string" && value.trim() !== "" ? value : null;
 }
-function scriptQuestionResult(res, json) {
+function scriptNeedsCallerResult(res, json) {
     const data = res.data;
-    if (!isRecord(data) || !isRecord(data.error) || data.error.code !== "SCRIPT_QUESTION")
+    if (!isRecord(data) || !isRecord(data.error))
+        return null;
+    const code = data.error.code;
+    const field = code === "SCRIPT_QUESTION" ? "lines" : code === "SCRIPT_TOO_THIN" ? "missing" : null;
+    if (field === null)
         return null;
     const message = formatApiError(res);
-    const lines = stringsOf(data.lines);
     if (json) {
         return {
             code: 1,
-            lines: [JSON.stringify({ ok: false, status: res.status, code: "SCRIPT_QUESTION", error: message, lines })],
+            lines: [
+                JSON.stringify({ ok: false, status: res.status, code, error: message, [field]: stringsOf(data[field]) }),
+            ],
         };
     }
     return { code: 1, lines: [message] };
@@ -1778,7 +1784,7 @@ export async function startScriptFlow(opts, deps) {
         ...(opts.stopAtScript ? { stopAtScript: true } : {}),
     });
     if (!res.ok)
-        return scriptQuestionResult(res, opts.json) ?? scriptStartRefused(res, opts.json);
+        return scriptNeedsCallerResult(res, opts.json) ?? scriptStartRefused(res, opts.json);
     if (isRecord(res.data) && res.data.stoppedAtScript === true) {
         return stoppedAtScriptResult(res.data, opts.json);
     }

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@aicopycoders/exodus",
-  "version": "2026.10.1600-beta.1",
+  "version": "2026.10.1700-beta.1",
   "description": "CLI + Claude Code skills for the Copycoders Exodus ad pipeline",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",