lower-thirds

lower-thirds is a skill for Claude Code from iart-ai/tiktok-video-skills. It costs 109 tokens per session (2,497 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for creating animated lower thirds, the name-and-role captions placed along the bottom of a video. They cover the caption’s layout, readable timing, safe placement, and reuse across many speakers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to make speaker name tags, interview captions, broadcast titles, podcast or webinar labels, and one reusable template for many names and roles.
Why use it?
They help produce consistent captions that remain readable without covering important parts of the video or overwhelming the image.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the tiktok-video-skills plugin — 4 skills shipped together

Good fit Use them to make speaker name tags, interview captions, broadcast titles, podcast or webinar labels, and one reusable template for many names and roles.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/iart-ai/tiktok-video-skills/lower-thirds
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 iart-ai/tiktok-video-skills --skill lower-thirds
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/iart-ai/tiktok-video-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install tiktok-video-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills.

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Per session 109 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,497 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 23 Jun 2026
  • Snyk pass 23 Jun 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00109 $0.02497
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.01248
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00499
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00250

Measured 12d ago against content hash 32969ab71dda, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lower-thirds 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 12d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/lower-thirds/SKILL.md · 147 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 147 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Lower Thirds

Build a clean, branded lower third — the name/role caption that lives in the bottom band of the frame — that animates in, holds long enough to read, and exits without stealing the shot. The craft is restraint: a crisp reveal, a strong type hierarchy, correct safe-area placement, and one template that drives a whole roster of speakers.

When to use

  • Speaker/interview name tags, panel rosters, talking-head captions.
  • Broadcast-style titles, news straps, podcast/webinar name plates.
  • Templating one design across a list of names/titles → many clips (the payoff).

Anatomy

A lower third is two text lines plus a graphic bed, placed in the lower band:

Element Role Type treatment
Name (primary) Who Largest, heaviest, tightest tracking
Role/title (secondary) What/where ~45–60% of name size, lighter weight, often a brand accent color
Bar / panel / accent Reads against any background Solid or 70–85% opacity; an accent rule ties to brand

Keep it to two lines. A name line + role line is the whole job — extra lines erode the hierarchy and crowd the safe area.

Three rules that prevent cheap-looking titles

  1. Never hard-cut a title on or off. A bare appear/disappear reads as a mistake. Even a 12-frame fade or slide makes it feel produced.
  2. Stagger, don't slam. Animate the bar first, then the name, then the role, each offset by 3–6 frames. Everything arriving at once feels flat; a short cascade feels designed.
  3. Hold long enough to read twice. Roughly 3–5s on screen (read it aloud twice). Too short and it's missed; too long and it nags. Animate in/out, never mid-segment.

Enter & exit animations

Pick one motion language and reuse it. The most reliable, premium-reading reveals:

Reveal Feel How
Slide + fade Clean, default Translate in ~24–40px while fading; ease-out on enter
Wipe bar Broadcast A bar scales/sweeps in (scaleX/clip), text fades behind it
Mask reveal Premium Clip text to a moving rectangle so letters "wipe on"

Read the full file on GitHub · 147 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 12d ago First seen · 147 lines · 109 tokens per session scan A 32969ab71dda

Subscribe to this mod's changes

lower-thirds is a skill published in the GitHub repository iart-ai/tiktok-video-skills (11 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 109 tokens to every session and 2,497 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 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.

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