explainer-video

explainer-video is a skill for Claude Code from LFTPadilla/agent-dev-kit. It costs 101 tokens per session (654 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A pipeline for making a narrated, faceless explainer video from a concept, ticket, or bug report. It creates an MP4 video from storyboard frames and a voice track, using HyperFrames and either an online or local text-to-speech voice.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for non-technical audiences, remote sharing, and asynchronous onboarding when the order and timing of events need to be spoken. It requires Node 20 or later, media tools, and either a Deepgram key or HyperFrames' local voice option.
Why use it?
It explains events that are difficult to understand from a still image, such as a retry loop, race condition, migration, or onboarding sequence. Viewers can watch it later without the author being present.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the dev-skills plugin — 27 skills, 1 command shipped together

Good fit Use it for non-technical audiences, remote sharing, and asynchronous onboarding when the order and timing of events need to be spoken. It requires Node 20 or later, media tools, and either a Deepgram key or HyperFrames' local voice option.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lftpadilla/agent-dev-kit/explainer-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.

Any agent
npx skills add LFTPadilla/agent-dev-kit --skill explainer-video
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LFTPadilla/agent-dev-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dev-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 27 skills, 1 command.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 101 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 654 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 $0.00101 $0.00654
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00327
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00131
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00065

Measured today against content hash 89186d431cd7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

explainer-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 today.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/deepgram-voice.mjs), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/dev-skills/skills/explainer-video/SKILL.md · 55 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Explainer Video 🎬

Turns a written concept into renders/video.mp4. Thin wrapper: HyperFrames owns the rendering, this skill owns the pipeline order, the video direction, and the voice step.

When to use

  • The explanation is a sequence in time: a race condition, a retry loop, a migration, an onboarding flow.
  • The audience will not read code and will not open a diagram tool.
  • Somebody must watch it later, without you present.

Do not use it for a single static picture. Route to diagram-render instead.

Requirements

Need How
HyperFrames npx hyperframes installs on demand. Pin nothing.
Voice (preferred) DEEPGRAM_API_KEY in env, or KEY=VALUE in ~/.config/deepgram.env
Voice (fallback) No key → HyperFrames local Kokoro TTS: npx hyperframes tts
Media ffmpeg and ffprobe on PATH

Node 20 or later. The voice script has zero npm dependencies and uses fetch.

Quick start

  • npx hyperframes init videos/<slug> --non-interactive --example=blank --skill=faceless-explainer, then write BRIEF.md.
  • Write STORYBOARD.md (8–10 frames, one ## Video direction block) and SCRIPT.md, then get the frame table approved.
  • node <skill_folder>/scripts/deepgram-voice.mjs --script SCRIPT.md --out audio_meta.json, then audio.mjs sync-durations.
  • Dispatch one worker per frame in parallel with the packet, the video direction, the word cues, and the real duration.
  • npx hyperframes render --skill=faceless-explainer --quality high --output renders/video.mp4.

Full commands, in order, live in references/pipeline.md. The look and the negative list live in references/video-direction.md.

Output contract

  • File: videos/<slug>/renders/video.mp4
  • Report the duration in seconds, measured with ffprobe, not the planned duration.
  • Report the frame count and any frame that failed npx hyperframes check.

Iteration rule

After every video, append what you learned to references/lessons.md as one dated line. The pipeline is only as good as the last failure somebody wrote down.

Read the full file on GitHub · 55 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. today First seen · 55 lines · 101 tokens per session scan A 89186d431cd7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

explainer-video is a skill published in the GitHub repository LFTPadilla/agent-dev-kit (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 101 tokens to every session and 654 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 2026-09-12.

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