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# Generate shorts script



## OpenAPI

````yaml post /api/agent/shorts/script
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Citedy Agent API
  version: 1.0.0
  description: >-
    Public contract for Citedy agent integrations. This contract reflects the
    current /api/agent surface without changing runtime behavior.
  contact:
    name: Citedy Support
    url: https://www.citedy.com
  license:
    name: Proprietary
    url: https://www.citedy.com
servers:
  - url: https://www.citedy.com
security: []
tags:
  - name: Health
    description: Platform and dependency health
  - name: Registration
    description: Agent onboarding and approval
  - name: Agent
    description: Agent identity and key lifecycle
  - name: Scout
    description: Trend scouting endpoints
  - name: Gaps
    description: Content gap analysis
  - name: Autopilot
    description: Article generation and retrieval
  - name: Articles
    description: Queued article generation job polling
  - name: Adaptations
    description: Social adaptation generation
  - name: Sessions
    description: Autopilot recurring sessions
  - name: Lead Magnets
    description: Lead magnet generation and state
  - name: Warm Leads
    description: Warm-lead report generation and export
  - name: Ingest
    description: Content ingestion jobs
  - name: Competitors
    description: Competitor discovery and analysis
  - name: Personas
    description: Writing persona catalog
  - name: Webhooks
    description: Webhook endpoint registration and delivery logs
  - name: Publishing
    description: Social publishing, scheduling and cancellation
  - name: Schedule
    description: Content schedule timeline and gap analysis
  - name: Settings
    description: Agent preferences and configuration
  - name: Scan
    description: Experimental trend scanning (xAI Grok)
  - name: Status
    description: Operational readiness and actionable onboarding status
  - name: Products
    description: Product knowledge base document management
  - name: Shorts
    description: Short-form video generation and polling
  - name: SEO Tools
    description: Agent-authenticated SEO diagnostics tools exposed via MCP seo.* namespace.
  - name: GSC
    description: Google Search Console integration and reporting
paths:
  /api/agent/shorts/script:
    post:
      tags:
        - Shorts
      summary: Generate shorts script
      operationId: generateShortsScript
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/ShortsScriptRequest'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Script generated
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ShortsScriptResponse'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '402':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/PaymentRequired'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/TooManyRequests'
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/InternalError'
      security:
        - AgentApiKey: []
components:
  schemas:
    ShortsScriptRequest:
      type: object
      required:
        - topic
      properties:
        topic:
          type: string
          minLength: 3
          maxLength: 500
        product_id:
          type: string
          format: uuid
        article_id:
          type: string
          format: uuid
          description: >-
            Optional article ID. When provided, shorts_title, shorts_hashtags,
            and shorts_script are saved to article metadata.
        duration:
          type: string
          enum:
            - short
            - long
          default: short
        requested_duration_seconds:
          type: integer
          enum:
            - 5
            - 10
            - 15
          description: >-
            Exact target runtime in seconds. When present, this controls the
            script word budget.
        style:
          type: string
          enum:
            - hook
            - educational
            - cta
          default: hook
        language:
          type: string
          minLength: 2
          maxLength: 5
          default: en
      additionalProperties: false
    ShortsScriptResponse:
      type: object
      required:
        - script
        - title
        - hashtags
        - word_count
        - estimated_duration_sec
        - parts
        - credits_charged
      properties:
        script:
          type: string
          description: Voiceover script text (also used as post description)
        title:
          type: string
          description: Catchy video title (max 100 chars), used as YouTube/TikTok title
        hashtags:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
          maxItems: 5
          description: '2-3 relevant hashtags with # prefix'
        word_count:
          type: integer
          minimum: 1
        estimated_duration_sec:
          type: integer
          minimum: 1
        parts:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
          minItems: 1
        credits_charged:
          type: integer
          minimum: 0
    ErrorResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        error:
          type: string
        message:
          type: string
      required:
        - error
      additionalProperties: true
    PaymentRequiredResponse:
      allOf:
        - $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
        - type: object
          properties:
            credits_required:
              type: number
            breakdown:
              type: object
              additionalProperties:
                type: number
            topup:
              type: object
              description: Recommended credit top-up package with billing URL
              properties:
                recommended_package_credits:
                  type: integer
                  description: Credits in the recommended package
                recommended_package_price_usd:
                  type: number
                  description: Price of the recommended package in USD
                topup_url:
                  type: string
                  format: uri
                  description: URL to billing page with package pre-selected
              required:
                - recommended_package_credits
                - recommended_package_price_usd
                - topup_url
          required:
            - credits_required
            - topup
          additionalProperties: true
    RateLimitErrorResponse:
      allOf:
        - $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
        - type: object
          properties:
            retry_after:
              type: integer
          required:
            - retry_after
  responses:
    BadRequest:
      description: Bad request
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
    Unauthorized:
      description: Unauthorized
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
    PaymentRequired:
      description: Insufficient credits
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/PaymentRequiredResponse'
    TooManyRequests:
      description: Rate limit exceeded
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/RateLimitErrorResponse'
    InternalError:
      description: Internal server error
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
  securitySchemes:
    AgentApiKey:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: Bearer citedy_agent_* key

````