claude-code-video-toolkit

Tell Claude Code what video you want — it writes the script, generates the voiceover, music, and visuals, and renders the MP4. An AI-native video production workspace: the skills, commands, templates, and tools your AI agent needs to take a video from concept to final render, on open-source models that cost cents (voiceover ~$0.01, AI video clips ~$0.23).

See What It Makes

Every frame below was generated in this workspace — click to watch.

More in the showcase table below.

Quick Start

git clone https://github.com/digitalsamba/claude-code-video-toolkit.git
cd claude-code-video-toolkit
uv sync   # Optional: AI voiceover, image gen, music, moviepy examples
claude    # Open Claude Code in the toolkit

Python dependencies are managed with uv — uv sync creates .venv/ and installs everything from the lockfile in seconds. No uv yet? curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh (macOS/Linux) or powershell -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex" (Windows).

Then in Claude Code:

/setup                    # Configure cloud GPU, storage, voice (~5 min, mostly free)
/video                    # Create your first video

That's it. /setup walks you through everything interactively — cloud GPU provider, file transfer, voice config. /video creates a project from a template and guides you through the whole workflow.

What's free: The toolkit leans heavily on open-source AI models — voiceovers (Qwen3-TTS), image generation (FLUX.2), music (ACE-Step), and more. You deploy them to your own cloud GPU account and run them at cost. Cloudflare R2 has a generous free tier (10GB, zero egress), and Modal gives $30/month free compute on the Starter plan — more than enough for a few 5-minute videos a month.

Requirements: Node.js 18+ and Claude Code. uv recommended for the AI tools (it installs Python 3.10+ for you). FFmpeg optional.

Want to skip setup and just render something?

cd examples/hello-world && npm install && npm run render

No API keys needed — outputs an MP4 immediately.

A Note from the Author (not AI-generated)

I've spent months painstakingly putting this toolkit together and plan to keep iterating on it. AI makes things easier, but hard work still has huge value. Every video I create is a chance for improvement — every skill, template, tool, and workflow here has been refined through that cycle. It would be wonderful if others wanted to get involved with that: use it, refine it, and feed back into the repo via an issue or PR what you learn.

My own use case is fairly specific: creating sprint review videos for the AI mobile development arm of Digital Samba. But the idea behind this project is a reusable toolkit for using Claude Code to autonomously generate any kind of "explainer" style video — product demos, walkthroughs, presentations, whatever you need. Autonomous video creation is a lofty ideal for such a subjective field, but we can try :)

What makes this work is that Claude Code is fantastically resourceful and flexible — give it the framing and tooling that this toolkit provides and it will adapt it to create templates and videos based on your prompting. The skills, templates, and tools here are building blocks. Claude Code is the builder. You are the director, editor, and designer.

If you're getting started, run /setup then /video and let Claude Code guide you. Or start with /template to create a template for your own use case.

Cloud GPU — I recommend Modal for running the toolkit's AI tools. The Starter plan gives you $30/month free compute, which is more than enough. RunPod is also supported as an alternative. Run /setup to deploy the tools you need.

My motto: Be brave. Experiment. And please share any videos you create or ideas you have back with the project — it helps me keep improving this toolkit for everyone.

Features

Skills

Claude Code has deep knowledge in:

The always-current catalog of skills, commands, tools, and templates lives in _internal/toolkit-registry.json.

Commands

Note: After creating or modifying commands/skills, restart Claude Code to load changes.

Templates

Pre-built video structures in templates/:

• sprint-review — Sprint review videos with demos, stats, and voiceover
• sprint-review-v2 — Composable scene-based sprint review with modular architecture
• product-demo — Marketing videos with dark tech aesthetic, stats, CTA
• concept-explainer-short — 9:16 vertical TikTok/Reels/Shorts explainers (Python/moviepy, no Remotion)

See examples/ for finished projects you can learn from (newest first — scroll down to watch the toolkit evolve in reverse):