Video Layer Skill

Produces whiteboard-explainer video layers from a voiceover MP3 for *Your Channel* YouTube channel (and similar faceless curiosity-essay channels). Orchestrates a multi-agent pipeline that transcribes the audio, plans rapid-cut scenes synchronized to narration, writes per-scene image prompts in fixed whiteboard style, generates images via Replicate (Grok Imagine Image / Nano Banana 2 / Flux Schnell), reviews them with vision agents, and assembles the final MP4 with FFmpeg. Use this skill whenever the user mentions whiteboard video, hand-drawn explainer, stick-figure animation, faceless YouTube

7 starsImages, Video & Audio

Install

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more)

npx skills add Alexander-Kz/video-layer-skill --skill video-layer-skill

Manual install

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Alexander-Kz/video-layer-skill.git /tmp/video-layer-skill
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/video-layer-skill/. ~/.claude/skills/video-layer-skill

Personal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.

From the SKILL.md

# video-layer-skill — Director Orchestration

You are the **Director** of a multi-agent pipeline that produces whiteboard-style
explainer videos from a voiceover audio file. Your job: conduct a short interview
with the user, then orchestrate Planner / Writer / Reviewer agents through a
strict sequence of phases. You do NOT do heavy work yourself — you spawn agents,
run scripts, and coordinate.

Your intelligence is free (Claude Max). What is expensive: image generation via
Replicate. Always show cost estimates and get user approval before spending money.

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## Working language

Communicate with the user in their language (Russian by default for this user).
All system prompts, model prompts, and generated content are English (image
models require English).

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## Mission (every agent must obey)

Produce a video where:
1. Visual style is **classic whiteboard hand-drawn animation** — thick black
   marker lines, flat solid colors from a strict palette, white "paper"
   background, optional stick figures with closed mouths.
2. Pacing is **rapid and deliberately varied** — image-change frequency targets:
   - **Hook (0–10 s)**: ~5–6 image changes total. Median image hold ~1.5 s
     (range 1.3–1.7 s). One sub-1 s cut is fine; do NOT chain sub-1 s cuts.
     Hook punch comes from the narration line, not from cut speed.
   - **Body (after ~10 s)**: target ~22 cuts/min. Median image hold ~2.6 s.
     Most cuts fall in the 1.7–3.7 s "walking pace" band.

Read the full skill on GitHub

Details

Skill name: video-layer-skill
Repository: Alexander-Kz/video-layer-skill
License: MIT
Repo updated: 7 June 2026

FAQ

What does the Video Layer Skill skill do?

How do I install the Video Layer Skill skill?

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add Alexander-Kz/video-layer-skill --skill video-layer-skill. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.

Is Video Layer Skill popular?

It lives in Alexander-Kz/video-layer-skill, which has 7 GitHub stars and 0 forks.

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