video-explainer

video-explainer is a skill for Codex from runesleo/claude-video-kit. It costs 74 tokens per session (764 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for turning a research brief or script into a reviewed vertical explainer video, meaning a portrait-format video suited to phone screens.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps prepare a brief, create a 9:16 script, review it, render a local MP4, and verify the video and its evidence files.
Why use it?
It keeps the script, visuals, narration, rendering, and checks connected while keeping publishing and uploading out of the workflow.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is node scripts/video-explainer.mjs doctor --output <output-directory>.

Good fit It helps prepare a brief, create a 9:16 script, review it, render a local MP4, and verify the video and its evidence files.

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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/runesleo/claude-video-kit
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/runesleo/claude-video-kit/video-explainer

Made for: Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 764 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 18
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
How audits are shown
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 $0.00074 $0.00764
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00382
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00153
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00076

Measured 8d ago against content hash 53d9f2ab7ebf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

video-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 8d 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/video-explainer/SKILL.md · 69 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 69 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Video Explainer

Version note: v0.3.0-rc.1 / 2026-07-22 / Add the first guarded brief-to-video workflow with script-bound review receipts, a no-key demo path, and local verification. Keep upload, account access, credentials, private voice assets, and hosted rendering out of scope. Rollback: remove this skill and continue using the legacy scripts directly.

Produce a local video and evidence packet. Never upload or publish from this skill.

Install

This Skill orchestrates a local clone of claude-video-kit; it does not bundle the renderer. From the repository root, install the runtime and register the Skill with:

npm ci --prefix remotion
npx skills add runesleo/claude-video-kit --skill video-explainer

For repository development, run commands from the repository root.

Workflow

  1. Run the read-only doctor before changing a project:

    node scripts/video-explainer.mjs doctor --output <output-directory>
    

    Read setup-and-doctor.md when doctor blocks or the environment is new.

  2. Convert the brief into script.json. Keep claims traceable, use supported slide types, and target 9:16. Read brief-to-script.md for the input/output contract.

  3. Require an independent review. Write review-input.json, then run:

    node scripts/video-explainer.mjs review <project> --input <project>/review-input.json
    

    Read review-gate.md for the six required checks. If any check is fix or block, revise and review again. Never render from that receipt.

  4. Render only after a current pass receipt:

    node scripts/video-explainer.mjs render <project>
    

    On macOS, use --demo-quality only for a credential-free first success. It forces the built-in say voice and script-timed captions; label the result as demo-quality. Read render-and-verify.md before running a custom project.

Read the full file on GitHub · 69 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 8d ago First seen · 69 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 53d9f2ab7ebf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

video-explainer is a skill published in the GitHub repository runesleo/claude-video-kit (118 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 764 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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