explainer

A workflow for making a 60–80-second explainer video from a web page, documentation site, blog, product page, or GitHub repository. It combines a browser walkthrough with narrated avatar video in a desktop-style frame.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create walkthrough videos for URLs, including repository-focused explanations for GitHub projects, with optional focus areas, avatars, voices, and preview mode.
Why use it?
It turns a website or repository into a short guided presentation, so viewers can understand it without reading everything themselves.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pika-labs/pika-plugins/explainer
Any agent
npx skills add Pika-Labs/Pika-Plugins --skill explainer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Pika-Labs/Pika-Plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 178 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 15,072 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00178 $0.15072
Opus 5 $0.00089 $0.07536
Sonnet 5 $0.00036 $0.03014
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.01507

Measured 2d ago against content hash 632fee402b6c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 2d 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/explainer/SKILL.md · 612 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 612 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/pika:explainer

Generate a ~60–80s URL explainer video: drive a real browser through the URL along a beat-sheet timeline, generate an avatar lipsync of the narration, and composite it all in a 1280×800 macOS Sonoma frame with a 240-pixel inner avatar (246-pixel outer including 3px white stroke ring) at canvas (20, 476) and element-targeted zoom on every mid-section beat. Works on any URL — product pages, docs sites, blog posts, launches. GitHub URLs activate a repo-aware mode (README scan + live-demo detection); all other URLs use a generic page-walkthrough flow.

Usage: /pika:explainer <url> [--focus "angles"] [--avatar <url>] [--voice <id>] [--lipsync-provider pika|kling] [--preview] [--live-url <url>]

Cost transparency gate

Before any paid MCP call, call identity_balance({verbose: true}) once. Surface the current balance, recent burn rate, and remaining runway, then gate the run with this exact message:

Estimated cost: about 50-500 credits (~$0.50-$5.00) depending on lipsync provider, narration, captions, and preview mode. This can reach $5, so Reply proceed to continue or cancel to stop.

Do not call any paid MCP tool until the user replies proceed. If the user replies cancel, stop without generating. The gate runs after the URL and optional flags are known, before avatar generation, speech, lipsync, captions, or video composition.

Behavior

Defaults — fire fast, no unnecessary mid-flow confirmation

  • Resolve avatar / voice silently. Never ask "should I use your avatar?" or "which voice?" before firing. Honor explicit overrides (--avatar, --voice) when supplied; otherwise generate a presenter avatar and pick a default voice, and proceed. See Step 1 for the full resolution waterfall.
  • Only the cost transparency gate asks for proceed. Step 5 preview is normally opt-in via --preview for explicit avatars, but it becomes mandatory auto-preview when the avatar source is a generated or regenerated fallback. After the cost gate, the flow runs end-to-end except for that required fallback-avatar preview guardrail.
  • Do not solicit --focus either. Make a confident first attempt from page structure; users re-run with --focus "X" if the angle missed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 612 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. 2d ago First seen · 612 lines · 178 tokens per session scan A 632fee402b6c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

explainer is a skill published in the GitHub repository Pika-Labs/Pika-Plugins (40 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 178 tokens to every session and 15,072 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-08-30.

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