Remotion Agent Skills: get Claude Code to build React videos the right way

Remotion is a library for making video with React: each frame is a component, you use code to create animations and render to video. The hard part is that AI agents often write Remotion code that isn't quite right (animation, timing, rendering). That's why Remotion has official Agent Skills for Claude Code, Codex and Cursor: skills that guide the agent from creating a project through animation and captions to rendering, so results follow Remotion's conventions.

Some of the skills

Installation

npx skills add remotion-dev/skills

Why use skills instead of just asking the agent?

• Remotion has its own conventions (for example how animation is driven by frame); without guidance an agent easily writes code that runs but isn't done the right way.
• Skills gather best practices in one place and only load when needed, so they don't bloat context.
• The create → adjust → render workflow is standardised, giving consistent results across runs.

Examples of what you can make

• An intro video with a logo and animated text.
• Statistics videos from real data (charts updating with the figures).
• Videos with automatic captions.
• Geographic explainers with maps and routes.

An important licensing note

Remotion is free for individuals and small teams, but companies above a certain threshold need to buy a licence. Read the terms on Remotion's site before commercial use. This is a notable difference to weigh when choosing a tool.

Choosing a tool

How to apply it

• React devs: start with /remotion-create and a 10–15 second video.
• Tech Lead: check the licence with legal before using it in a commercial product.
• Marketing/PM: real data + templates make recurring videos (monthly reports, recaps) faster than doing them by hand.