video-explainer

video-explainer is a skill for Claude Code from Galbaz1/video-research-mcp. It costs 46 tokens per session (1,331 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for turning researched text into an explainer video, from writing the script through narration, scenes, and rendering.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps create, preview, check, refine, fact-check, and render explainer videos, including shorter versions and sound effects.
Why use it?
It gives coding agents a defined process for producing a video instead of leaving the steps and their order unclear.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the gr plugin — 27 skills, 17 commands, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit It helps create, preview, check, refine, fact-check, and render explainer videos, including shorter versions and sound effects.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/galbaz1/video-research-mcp/video-explainer
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.

Any agent
npx skills add Galbaz1/video-research-mcp --skill video-explainer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Galbaz1/video-research-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install gr, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 27 skills, 17 commands, 7 agents.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,331 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 $0.00046 $0.01331
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00532
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00266
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00133

Measured 21d ago against content hash c6685d3d3b70, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

video-explainer 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 21d 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.

skills/video-explainer/SKILL.md · 133 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 133 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Video Explainer MCP — Tool Usage Guide

First verify that the optional video-explainer-mcp server is connected and EXPLAINER_PATH points to the external checkout. It wraps the video_explainer CLI to synthesize explainer videos from text content.

Core Concept

This server is a synthesis companion to video-research-mcp. Research extracts knowledge; this server turns it into video. The pipeline is: content → script → narration → scenes → voiceover → storyboard → render.

Tool Selection Guide

I want to... Use this tool
Create a new video project explainer_create
Feed content into a project explainer_inject
Check project progress explainer_status
List all projects explainer_list
Run the full pipeline explainer_generate
Run one pipeline step explainer_step
Preview render (blocking) explainer_render
Start background render explainer_render_start
Check render progress explainer_render_poll
Generate short-form video explainer_short
Improve a step's output explainer_refine
Add iterative feedback explainer_feedback
Request a script fact-check report explainer_factcheck
Add sound effects explainer_sound
Add background music explainer_music

Pipeline Order

Steps must run in order. Each step depends on the previous step's output:

1. script      — Generate video script from input content
2. narration   — Convert script to narration text
3. scenes      — Generate scene descriptions
4. voiceover   — Synthesize speech audio (TTS)
5. storyboard  — Create visual storyboard
6. render      — Combine into final video

Use explainer_generate to run all steps, or explainer_step for one at a time.

Content Injection

Before running the pipeline, inject content:

explainer_create(project_id="quantum-computing")
explainer_inject(
    project_id="quantum-computing",
    content="# Quantum Computing\n\nKey concepts:\n- Superposition...",
    filename="research.md"
)

Read the full file on GitHub · 133 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. 21d ago Changed · -13 lines · -2 tokens per session c6685d3d3b70
  2. 27d ago Changed · +6 lines 4e30fc82de78
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 140 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A d3f310631f6e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

video-explainer is a skill published in the GitHub repository Galbaz1/video-research-mcp (23 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 1,331 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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