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Remotion Skills

Teaches your assistant to build videos in code.

Why use Remotion Skills?

An assistant that has never been told how a framework wants to be used will still write code for it, confidently and wrongly, because it is predicting what such code usually looks like rather than following the framework's own rules. Video makes that worse: timing, frame rates and rendering all have exact answers that are easy to get plausibly wrong. This pack encodes those answers as skills, the saved instruction files an assistant loads when a job matches. There are twelve, split by job: creating a project, writing the animation markup, previewing in the Studio, rendering the file, captions, maps, interactivity, searching the documentation, upgrading, and building a product around it. Installing them is closer to handing over the manual than adding a feature.

When should you use Remotion Skills?

Reach for it when a video has to be made more than once: the same explainer with next month's numbers, a hundred personalised clips, subtitles burned in from a transcript, or a chart that animates from data you already have. If you are cutting one video by hand, an ordinary editor is faster and this is the wrong shape of work.

How do you install and use Remotion Skills?

  1. Open the Terminal app, the window where you type commands, move into the project you want the skills in, and paste the line below. It installs all twelve at once.
  2. Ask your assistant for something small and check it renders: a five-second title card that fades in. Rendering is what proves the timing is right, so do not judge it from the preview alone.
  3. From then on name the job in your request, for example add captions from this transcript, so the assistant loads the skill built for it rather than guessing from the general one.
Paste into the Terminal app npx skills add remotion-dev/skills
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