Shotkit / Guide
Claude skills for video, and what each one does.
01 / How skills load
A skill is a folder Claude Code reads.
Claude Code’s docs put it in one line: “Create a SKILL.md file with instructions, and Claude adds it to its toolkit.” Personal skills live in ~/.claude/skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md and load in every project on that machine. See code.claude.com/docs/en/skills.
Several projects below install with npx skills add, the CLI from skills.sh. Others ship an install script or their own CLI.
02 / The skills
Five projects, grouped by the job they do.
Checked 2026-09-26. Each description is taken from the linked page.
Remotion Agent Skills
Render / RemotionRemotion’s docs say these skills “define best practices for working in Remotion projects.” Remotion builds video from React code. The skills cover creating a project, rendering, captions, the Studio, maps and upgrades, per the remotion-dev/skills repo. Use them when the finished video is a Remotion composition.
Install npx skills add remotion-dev/skillsLicence: Remotion has its own licence, with terms that depend on company size. Read Remotion’s LICENSE.md before you use it for a company.
Source: remotion.dev/docs/ai/skills
HyperFrames
Render / HeyGenThe README calls it “an open-source framework for turning HTML, CSS, media, and seekable animations into deterministic MP4 videos.” An agent writes an HTML composition and the CLI renders it. Use it when you want the finished video built from HTML.
Install npx skills add heygen-com/hyperframesLicence: Apache 2.0. The README says there are no per-render fees or commercial-use thresholds.
claude-code-video-toolkit
Produce / Digital SambaA full project for Claude Code. You say what video you want, and it writes the script, makes the voiceover, music and visuals, and renders the MP4, per its README. It brings skills for Remotion, ElevenLabs, FFmpeg and Playwright, and commands such as
/setupand/video. Use it when you want one project that goes from idea to finished file.Install git clone https://github.com/digitalsamba/claude-code-video-toolkit.git cd claude-code-video-toolkit uv sync claudeThen run
/setupand/videoinside Claude Code.Licence: MIT.
fal.ai skills
Generate / fal.ai communitySkills for calling fal.ai models from an agent. The README says the default path is the genmedia CLI: “discover an endpoint, inspect its schema, run it, poll status when needed, and download outputs.” The bundle includes skills for model choice, prompting, cinematography and storytelling. Use it when you want Claude Code to call an image or video model for you.
Install genmedia setup genmedia initInstall genmedia from fal-ai-community/genmedia-cli first. You need a fal.ai API key.
Shotkit
Plan / WhyStrohmFive skills that plan a video before anything is rendered. They write a brand lock, a storyboard, shot specs, a prompt per generator and a critique of each frame you make, then a single-page preview. Shotkit does not render video or make images. You make the frames in your generator.
Install git clone https://github.com/whystrohm/shotkit.git cd shotkit && ./install.shThe install page shows what the script prints.
Licence: Apache 2.0.
Source: github.com/whystrohm/shotkit
03 / Where Shotkit fits
Shotkit plans the video. The others make it.
A video made with these tools passes through three jobs. Plan: what each shot shows, how long it runs and what text sits on it. Generate: the frames or clips. Render: the finished file.
Shotkit does the first job and writes it down as files: storyboard.md, shots.json, text-overlays.json, one prompt file per generator and a critique per frame. You take the prompts to the generator you already use, and bring the frames back for review. When every shot passes, the plan and the frames go to whichever renderer you pick.
So Shotkit sits next to the other skills on this page, not in place of them. The storyboard guide walks the planning loop on one real run.
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