claymation-ad-arcads-mcp

claymation-ad-arcads-mcp is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from krusemediallc/cursor-ad-agent. It costs 103 tokens per session (5,029 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for making stop-motion clay animation video ads through the Arcads MCP server, a tool connection that handles the required services. It covers storyboards, animation, voice narration, video assembly, and subtitles.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a narrated clay-animation product advertisement from an idea and reference files, including the storyboard, animated clips, voice-over, assembled video, and captions.
Why use it?
It puts the separate production steps into one documented process and explains how to provide image and video files when the remote server cannot access your computer directly.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to create a narrated clay-animation product advertisement from an idea and reference files, including the storyboard, animated clips, voice-over, assembled video, and captions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/krusemediallc/cursor-ad-agent/claymation-ad-arcads-mcp
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add krusemediallc/cursor-ad-agent --skill claymation-ad-arcads-mcp
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/krusemediallc/cursor-ad-agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 103 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,029 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00103 $0.05029
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.02514
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.01006
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00503

Measured 12d ago against content hash 006f87350679, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claymation-ad-arcads-mcp 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 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

2. `PUT` the bytes: `curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n" -X PUT -H "Content-Type: image/png" --upload-file "<file>" "<presignedUrl>"` → expect `200`.
skills/claymation-ad-arcads-mcp/SKILL.md · 223 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 223 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claymation Ad — Arcads MCP

Build a narrative claymation (Aardman/Laika stop-motion) product ad fully on the Arcads MCP server. Same proven creative pipeline as the REST claymation-ad guide — gpt-image-2 storyboard → Seedance 2.0 image-to-video → narrator VO → stitch → captions — but every API step is an Arcads MCP tool call. The MCP handles auth and job orchestration, so there's no hand-rolled HTTP Basic header or POST /v2/... plumbing.

⚠️ Remote-client caveat (read first). The MCP server cannot read local disk unless the client provides explicit filesystem bridging. In Cursor, every reference file (a user product photo, a generated still you chain into the next call, a clip you feed into v2v/stitch) must be uploaded via arcads_get_upload_url + an HTTP PUT first, then referenced by the returned S3 filePath. Temp filePaths are single-use. And keep a .env with ARCADS_BASIC_AUTH for the polling fallback. See Uploading & fetching.

REST claymation-ad step MCP replacement
POST /v2/images/generate (gpt-image-2) + presigned upload of each reference arcads_generate_image_gpt (model gpt-image-2); references via arcads_get_upload_url + PUT → S3 filePath (see Uploading)
POST /v2/videos/generate (seedance-2.0) with startFrame URL arcads_generate_video_seedance_20 with referenceImages:[still] (i2v)
ElevenLabs TTS per beat arcads_text_to_speech (one voiceId across all beats) — or keep ElevenLabs if the user insists
GET /v1/assets/{id} polling (+ the "Seedance polls /assets not /videos" gotcha) arcads_watch_asset (status + download URL) — gotcha gone
ffmpeg -f concat stitch arcads_stitch_videos (2–6 clips/call) — or ffmpeg
.ass / HyperFrames caption burn arcads_add_subtitles (style catalogue) — or HyperFrames for exact brand styling
Manual Authorization: $ARCADS_BASIC_AUTH header on every call MCP injects auth — you only need .env for the polling fallback

What does not change vs REST: reference files are still uploaded per call and temp filePaths are still single-use (see Uploading below). What the MCP does remove: hand-rolled auth headers, the "Seedance polls /v1/assets not /v1/videos" gotcha (arcads_watch_asset abstracts it), and N-parallel-POSTs for variations (nbGenerations).

The only non-MCP step: muxing the VO mp3 onto each silent clip + tight-trimming to kill dead space (the "VO drives clip duration" rule). No single Arcads MCP tool muxes a standalone audio track onto a video, so that one step uses local ffmpeg.

Read the full file on GitHub · 223 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. 12d ago First seen · 223 lines · 103 tokens per session scan A 006f87350679

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claymation-ad-arcads-mcp is a skill published in the GitHub repository krusemediallc/cursor-ad-agent (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 103 tokens to every session and 5,029 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. 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 2026-08-31.

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