Remotion

🚨 MANDATORY: Voice Notification (REQUIRED BEFORE ANY ACTION)

You MUST send this notification BEFORE doing anything else when this skill is invoked.

1. Send voice notification:

   curl -s -X POST http://localhost:31337/notify \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d '{"message": "Running the WORKFLOWNAME workflow in the Remotion skill to ACTION"}' \
     > /dev/null 2>&1 &
   

2. Output text notification:

   Running the **WorkflowName** workflow in the **Remotion** skill to ACTION...
   

This is not optional. Execute this curl command immediately upon skill invocation.

Remotion

What It Does

Creates video programmatically with React. You describe the composition in code; Remotion renders it to MP4. Every frame is driven by useCurrentFrame() rather than CSS animation, so the output is deterministic and reproducible. It pulls LifeOS theme constants and Art-skill aesthetics for visual consistency, and stages output to $LIFEOS_DOWNLOADS_DIR (default ~/Downloads/ when unset) for preview first.

The Problem

Making a short explainer or motion-graphics clip the usual way means a video editor, a timeline, and a lot of manual keyframing — slow, hard to version, and impossible to regenerate when the content changes. If the script changes, you redo the edit by hand. Building video as code fixes that: the composition is a React component, animation is a function of the frame number, and re-rendering after an edit is one command. This skill is the code path for video, the way the Art skill is the code path for images.

How It Works

Define a composition as React, animate with useCurrentFrame(), render with bunx remotion render. Rendering is CPU-intensive, so it runs in the background. See the Quick Reference and Tools below for the render command, theme integration, and pattern files.

Customization

Before executing, check for user customizations at: ~/.claude/LIFEOS/USER/CUSTOMIZATIONS/SKILLS/Remotion/