render-video

render-video is a command for Claude Code from theclaymethod/artifacture. It costs 20 tokens per session (865 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that turns an existing self-contained HTML slide deck or magazine into an MP4 video using Hyperframes. It also creates three keyframe images.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with an HTML deck that has already been generated, including slide decks, magazine layouts, or other HTML pages divided into scroll-snap sections.
Why use it?
It removes the need to manually convert scrollable HTML sections and their animations into a video file.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the visual-explainer plugin — 1 skill, 13 commands, 11 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it with an HTML deck that has already been generated, including slide decks, magazine layouts, or other HTML pages divided into scroll-snap sections.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/theclaymethod/artifacture/render-video
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/theclaymethod/artifacture

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install visual-explainer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 13 commands, 11 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 20 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 865 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00020 $0.00865
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00346
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00173
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00086

Measured 15d ago against content hash fde6e7aeade1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

render-video scanned grade A with 0 findings 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 15d 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.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/visual-explainer/commands/render-video.md · 45 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 45 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/render-video

Use /generate-video for a new topic. This route starts from a deck or magazine and follows generate-video.md for audio, checking, encoding, and delivery. Read dynamic-video-authoring.md to turn its source into a moving argument.

Honor the requested style, voice, duration, and script. Preserve facts, units, important encodings, and explicit visual identity. Use clarify.md for material unknowns; honor answered choices and existing authorization.

Recover the explanation

For MDX/TSX, read the editable source and export it before inspecting the HTML. For an HTML-only scroll-snap deck or horizontal magazine, identify .slide / .page units, claims, figures, supporting evidence, relationships, and meaningful interactive states. Other presentation structures need an inspected adapter; this route does not promise arbitrary React-child conversion.

Find the viewer's question and its mechanism. Source slides contain evidence; film beats follow the explanation. Merge repeated claims, separate overloaded proof, and record omitted material in delivery notes. A reel needs a compact argument with an immediate event and completed consequence.

Reuse source owners for motion

Reuse existing GraphicScene / GraphicSlide geometry and semantic IDs when available. Compile meaningful events on those scenes and export one sequenceSlides sequence. Keep deck navigation and reading-only controls outside the film.

Source Animated treatment
Diagram Trace a request/dependency, reveal its causal edge, transfer focus at arrival, and show the consequence.
Code / diff Bind exact source ranges, edit the responsible condition with retained character identity, then replay the input.
Before / after Register common geometry and use a comparison wipe; do not imply relayout or arbitrary morphing.
Data / table Preserve the unit/record encoding and reveal the records or comparison supporting the finding.
Layers / ownership Follow a task across boundaries or separate meaningful parts with an exploded assembly.
Mathematics Construct the relationship and couple its consequences to one variable; use Manim for required formula transforms.
Photograph / native clip Preserve provenance and timing, place it in the source-owned delivery layer, and keep labels readable.

Read the full file on GitHub · 45 lines

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. 15d ago Changed · -83 lines · +4 tokens per session fde6e7aeade1
  2. 17d ago Changed · +4 lines 1f03cf89c2a1
  3. 1mo ago Changed · -16 lines 67e5a7216442
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 140 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 3a67413109e8

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render-video is a command published in the GitHub repository theclaymethod/artifacture (3 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 865 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.