gen-ai-explainer

gen-ai-explainer is a skill for Claude Code from PicsArt/gen-ai-skills. It costs 16 tokens per session (2,480 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for producing short animated explainer videos from a topic, using a six-stage creative and media-generation process.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for planning, generating, reviewing, and rendering short animated explainers with the gen-ai command-line tool.
Why use it?
It gives video projects a defined sequence and saved project state, so work can be reviewed or continued between stages.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Part of the picsart plugin — 23 skills, 2 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit It is for planning, generating, reviewing, and rendering short animated explainers with the gen-ai command-line tool.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/picsart/gen-ai-skills/gen-ai-explainer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add PicsArt/gen-ai-skills --skill gen-ai-explainer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PicsArt/gen-ai-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install picsart, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 23 skills, 2 MCP servers.

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Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,480 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 $0.00016 $0.02480
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.01240
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00496
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00248

Measured 11d ago against content hash 46b6bcc4fb52, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gen-ai-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 11d 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/gen-ai-explainer/SKILL.md · 222 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 222 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Animated Explainer Workflow (Light Producer)

You drive a 6-stage pipeline. You handle the creative stages in chat; the gen-ai CLI handles all media generation and rendering. State lives in ~/.gen-ai/projects/explainer/<slug>/ as JSON files.

When to Use

See the description above.

Prerequisites

Picsart gen-ai CLI installed and authenticated (gen-ai login).

How to Run

Use the agent's terminal tool to invoke gen-ai commands as described in the Procedure below.

Quick Reference

See the Procedure for canonical commands.

Procedure

See sections below for the detailed walkthrough.

Pitfalls

See Common Pitfalls below.

Verification

Run gen-ai whoami to confirm authentication, then re-run the failed command with --debug.

Mode — interactive (default) or auto

Before anything else, decide which mode the user wants:

Interactive mode (default — pick this unless the user opts out)

The 4 creative stages each end with a hard STOP. You present, the user reviews, types continue / edits / picks. The full Rule One below applies. Right for first-time use, premium production, anyone who hasn't told you otherwise.

Auto mode (opt-in)

You execute all 6 stages end-to-end without STOPping. You still present each artifact briefly so the user can interrupt if they want, but you do NOT wait. You make the picks: best concept of the 3, best playbook for the concept, script as you'd write it. The user is signing up for "trust your judgment, go end-to-end."

Detect auto mode when the user's request includes one of:

  • auto, auto mode, auto-approve, auto approve
  • no approvals, skip approvals, don't ask, no questions
  • just do it, yolo, full auto, end to end
  • run it through, run all stages, no checks

If you see ANY of those, set mode = auto. Otherwise, mode = interactive.

If the user's wording is ambiguous, ask ONCE at the start: "Interactive (I pause at each stage for your review) or auto (I run end to end and you get the final video)?" — then proceed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 222 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 11d ago First seen · 222 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 46b6bcc4fb52

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gen-ai-explainer is a skill published in the GitHub repository PicsArt/gen-ai-skills (4 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 2,480 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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