demo-assembly

demo-assembly is a skill for Claude Code from mrieck/demoday-claude-plugin. It costs 64 tokens per session (2,167 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for assembling a finished software demo video with Remotion, a tool for building videos from code, and ffmpeg, a tool for preparing video and audio files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to render or edit a demo video, open its editor, prepare source clips, and turn project data into a final MP4.
Why use it?
It keeps the timeline, captions, transitions, cursor zooms, and audio timing consistent and helps diagnose black frames, bad timing, or missing sound.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is node scripts/render/render.mjs --project demo/<slug> # render.

Part of the demoday plugin — 5 skills, 1 command, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to render or edit a demo video, open its editor, prepare source clips, and turn project data into a final MP4.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mrieck/demoday-claude-plugin
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mrieck/demoday-claude-plugin/demo-assembly

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install demoday, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 1 command, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,167 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 $0.00064 $0.02167
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01084
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00433
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00217

Measured 6d ago against content hash 4e6cd9fc3d57, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

demo-assembly 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 6d 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/demo-assembly/SKILL.md · 175 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 175 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Assembling the video

Remotion owns the finished timeline. ffmpeg only prepares inputs (trimming, cropping, normalising). That split is what makes transitions, captions and overlays on top of the footage possible in a single deterministic render.

node scripts/render/render.mjs --project demo/<slug>             # render
node scripts/render/render.mjs --project demo/<slug> --studio    # open the editor

(demo/<slug> is the video's project folder, e.g. demo/project-overview — one per video.)

The first run copies remotion-template/ into demo/<slug>/remotion/ and installs it. It is never overwritten afterwards, so any edits the user makes there survive.

How props reach the renderer

build-props.mjs turns demo.json into props and does three things the renderer should not have to:

  1. Verifies every artifact exists. A missing clip becomes a clear error rather than a black rectangle.
  2. Inlines the event log and word timings so components never touch the disk.
  3. Reconciles durations. Generated video comes back at whatever length the model chose; if a clip is shorter than its scene, the scene is trimmed to the clip rather than freezing on the last frame.

Media resolves through --public-dir <project>, so staticFile("clips/x.mp4") points straight at the pipeline's output. Nothing is copied.

What the renderer does with the event log

DemoClip reads the capture's event log and eases the frame toward each click just before it lands, holding briefly, then easing out. This is the single biggest difference between "screen recording" and "product video" — it leads the viewer's eye across a 1920px UI.

Zoom is deliberately gentle (1.18×). The footage is already rasterised, so pushing harder makes text mushy and reads as a jump cut. Disable per scene with "zoomToClick": false.

Callouts with "anchor": "lastClick" place themselves next to the most recent click — where the viewer is already looking.

Audio

  • Narration is laid out on an absolute timeline, not inside scenes, because transitions overlap scenes and two overlapping voices are instantly audible.
  • Presenter clips are muted; the original narration track plays instead. The avatar's baked-in audio is a re-encode of the same thing.
  • A music bed ducks under narration automatically (music.duckDb, default −14 dB). Without ducking it sounds like a stock template.

Read the full file on GitHub · 175 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. 6d ago Changed · +40 lines 4e6cd9fc3d57
  2. 10d ago First seen · 135 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 8de3c72aa203

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demo-assembly is a skill published in the GitHub repository mrieck/demoday-claude-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 2,167 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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