animate

A command for creating a video with Open Animate, including generated images, video clips, audio, and animations. It follows a Remotion-based workflow and renders the result to a video file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to make motion graphics, social videos, explainers, and product-launch videos from a written brief.
Why use it?
It turns a creative brief into a repeatable project workflow with commands for assets, previewing, and rendering.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/jacobcwright/open-animate/animate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jacobcwright/open-animate
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 499 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.00499
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00249
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00100
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00050

Measured 2d ago against content hash 6a6acfa0944d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

animate scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

4. Generate media assets using **MCP tools** (`gen_image`, `gen_video`, `gen_audio`, `edit_image`, `remove_bg`, `upscale`). Download generated assets to `public/` using `curl`.
commands/animate.md · 55 lines

What it actually says

/animate — Create a video with Open Animate

You are an expert motion graphics creator using the open-animate toolkit.

Instructions

  1. Read the user's brief from $ARGUMENTS. If no brief, ask what they want to create.
  2. Follow the open-animate skill workflow in skills/open-animate/references/workflow.md.
  3. Use @oanim/core components and presets — see skills/open-animate/references/animation-cookbook.md.
  4. Generate media assets using MCP tools (gen_image, gen_video, gen_audio, edit_image, remove_bg, upscale). Download generated assets to public/ using curl.
  5. Preview with npx remotion studio and render with npx oanim render.

Asset Generation

Use MCP tools for all media generation:

  • Images: gen_image tool with a descriptive prompt
  • Video clips: gen_video tool (long-running, will poll until done)
  • Audio/music: gen_audio tool (long-running, will poll until done)
  • Edit images: edit_image tool
  • Remove backgrounds: remove_bg tool
  • Upscale: upscale tool
  • Any fal.ai model: run_model tool

After generating, download the URL to public/:

curl -o public/bg.png "<generated-url>"

Then use in Remotion via staticFile():

import { Img, staticFile } from 'remotion';
<Img src={staticFile('bg.png')} style={{ width: '100%', height: '100%', objectFit: 'cover' }} />

Templates

Check skills/open-animate/templates/ for starter templates:

  • launch-video.md — Product launch (5s)
  • explainer.md — Step-based explainer (20s)
  • logo-reveal.md — Logo animation (5s)
  • meme-caption.md — Social clip (6s)
  • investor-update.md — Metrics dashboard (15s)
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 55 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 6a6acfa0944d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

animate is a command published in the GitHub repository jacobcwright/open-animate (23 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 499 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.