# video

This skill turns a brief into a Claude Design folder with a prompt, composition files, and review frames. Use it to prepare an animated film project.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 299
- Author: ohad6k
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/ohad6k/emulo/tree/HEAD/skills/video/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-12
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/ohad6k-video

## What it does

The skill loads the Emulo working profile and any video guidance found in the project. It then assembles a folder with `PROMPT.md`, `START-HERE.md`, an `ATTACH/` directory, reference frames, and the `KIT.md` manifest. The runtime file `animations-v3.jsx` goes inside `ATTACH/` for Claude Design to use.

The prompt lays out scenes, object transformations, asset names, and checks for the specific film. Reference filenames should explain their role; missing assets belong in the prompt rather than being replaced with invented stand-ins. A local `build/piece.jsx` and rendered frames are optional. The kit is the core deliverable.

The skill uses `animations-v3.jsx`, where animation follows the authored time value `T` rather than CSS animation or `setTimeout`. Do not edit the engine file: copying the starter component overwrites changes. Preparing the profile requires `python`.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add ohad6k/emulo --skill video -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/video/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/video/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add ohad6k/emulo --skill video -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/video/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add ohad6k/emulo --skill video -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/video/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install ohad6k/emulo video
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/video/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add ohad6k/emulo --skill video -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/ohad6k/emulo --path skills/video
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/video/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add ohad6k/emulo --skill video -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/ohad6k/emulo/tree/HEAD/skills/video/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- assemble a Claude Design project folder
- describe scenes and object transformations for the engine
- label reference frames by their role
- document missing assets without inventing replacements
- inspect a locally rendered film

## Example prompts
- Turn this brief into a Claude Design folder and list the files to upload.
- Sort these references by role and give each filename a clear instruction.
- Write a prompt for `animations-v3.jsx` and include build verification steps.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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```text
---
name: video
description: Use when a brief has to become a film. Turns a one line ask into a Claude Design prompt written in the animations-v3 engine's own language, plus the built piece.jsx and a contact sheet to look at before anyone renders. Covers reference roles, the kit, the storyboard gate, the motion floor, and the verification commands. Do not use for backend work, UI design, or marketing copy alone.
---

# Emulo video

You take a brief and hand back a film. Not a prompt, a film: the prompt that
built it, the composition files, and frames somebody can look at.

## 0. Load the profile before you write a word

1. Locate `emulo.py` two directories above this skill; fall back to `./emulo.py`
   only for a direct repo checkout.
2. Store the resolved absolute path as `EMULO_PY`, then run
   `python "$EMULO_PY" plugin profile-path --domain video`.
3. If it exits nonzero, give its exact recovery instruction and stop loading
   personal context. Never substitute a generic creative persona.
4. Read every returned path completely. First is the core working profile,
   second is the video profile. Both outrank anything below: where the person's
   own mined rules disagree with a default in this skill, theirs win.
5. If the project has its own video docs or router, read them first and follow
   them for anything they cover.

## 1. What you hand back

**A folder the person can upload to Claude Design and get a film.** That is the
deliverable. Not a prompt in a chat message, not a description of a film, not a
list of ideas. A folder.

Build it in the project, in a folder named for the brand or the film, in this
shape:

| # | Artefact | Why it is there |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | `PROMPT.md` | the brief. One page, in the engine's language |
| 2 | `START-HERE.md` | **the upload order.** Which files, in which order, in one message. Without it the person guesses and the guess is wrong |
| 3 | `ATTACH/` | every asset the film needs, including `animations-v3.jsx` itself |
| 4 | `frames/` | reference stills whose **filenames carry the instruction** |
| 5 | `KIT.md` | the manifest: every file, its pixel size, its known defects |

Optionally, and only after the five above are finished: `build/piece.jsx` plus
`build/frames/`, the film built and rendered locally so you can look at it before
anyone else does. That is verification, not the deliverable. A kit with no local
build still ships. A local build with no kit does not.

### The three things that decide whether the folder works

**Ship the engine inside `ATTACH/`.** `animations-v3.jsx` goes in the folder with
the assets. Claude Design needs the runtime it is being asked to write against.
Leaving it out is a common way a good prompt produces a bad film.

**Isolated parts, never a screenshot of a whole screen.** One object per file,
transparent, 1600px minimum on the long edge, plus large plates at the film's
aspect ratio for the ground. A whole screen dropped in is a slab and reads as
broken. Films built this way fail on missing assets far more often than on
prompt length.
```
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