video-shotcraft

video-shotcraft is a skill you install into Claude Code or Codex that turns your coding agent into a motion-design studio. Ask it for a product video and it storyboards, animates real page captures with 3D camera moves, syncs cuts to a beat, and adds sound design, then renders the whole thing through Remotion. Apache-licensed, no API keys, free.

It installs with `npx skills add` and runs inside the agent and Remotion toolchain you already have. Node 22, and if you're rendering headless on Linux you'll need a Chrome headless binary and low concurrency on small machines. Moderate setup, mostly because of the render pipeline, not the skill itself.

This is the same pattern as the best agent skills: heavy, reusable assets (over a hundred shot recipes, motion previews, sound effects, ready-made Remotion components) plus a documented method, so the agent isn't improvising from scratch. For a solo developer or small team that needs product videos and doesn't want After Effects, it's a useful free option that lives right in your editor.

Two catches. First, only one finished template ships today, so you're getting a strong framework with more promised rather than a full library right now. Second, it leans on Remotion, which is free for individuals and small teams but can require a paid license for companies, so check that before you ship commercial work. The skill is free; the render engine's licensing is the fine print.