remotion-create Skill for Claude: What It Does and How to Install It

Makes Claude start a new Remotion project, open the Studio preview, and build your video as React code.

Installs: 253.2K; on skills.sh
Stars: 6K; on GitHub
Files: 4; besides SKILL.md
Updated: Oct 2026; last repo commit

remotion-create sets up a new Remotion video project and composition. Claude inspects your folder first. It scaffolds in place if the folder is empty (or holds only disposable OS files such as .DS_Store), and into a new subfolder if it holds anything meaningful. It then installs dependencies and opens Remotion Studio in the browser before writing the video, so you can watch changes land.

It then designs the video as React markup, using layout and text-size rules from video-layout.md, and hands off to other Remotion guidance for compositions, clip timelines, multi-scene videos and Studio-editable code. You need Node.js and Git. Because those handoffs point to other skills, install the whole Remotion set.

Good for

Developers who want a video made from a prompt
Marketers prototyping promo videos with a developer
Remotion users starting a new composition

Install remotion-create

Claude Code

Copy this prompt.

Install the remotion-create skill in Claude Code. Run this command:

npx skills add remotion-dev/skills

Then check that it loaded and tell me how to use it.

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Paste it into Claude Code. It shows the change and asks before running it.

Requires Node.js.

Install the whole set, not just remotion-create. This skill hands off to other Remotion skills in the same repo, such as best practices, and the README says the set works with Claude Code, Codex, Kimi Code and Cursor.

From the project README. Source.

What's in the skill

When it loads

Create a new Remotion video

Sections in SKILL.md

Scaffold a project
Empty folder
Non-empty folder
Open the preview before building the video
Designing a video
Is this a timeline of clips?
Is this a multi-scene video?
Interactivity Best Practices
TailwindCSS
Follow-up

Key facts

Author: remotion-dev
Repo: remotion-dev/skills (skills/remotion-create)
Installs on skills.sh: 253,173 (Nov 2026)
GitHub stars: 6,037 (Nov 2026)
Last repo commit: Oct 26, 2026
Files in the skill folder: 5 including SKILL.md
skills.sh audits: Gen Agent Trust Hub: pass, Socket: pass, Snyk: pass
Needs: Node.js and Git

What it includes

Creates a blank Remotion project with create-video and installs dependencies
Try: “Make a promo video for a record store”
Runs code · Scaffold a project
Starts Remotion Studio in the browser before the video is built
Runs code · Open the preview
Writes the video as React markup using the layout rules in video-layout.md
Write · Design the video
Adds TailwindCSS only if you ask, using tailwind.md
Write · Tailwind
Sends timelines, multi-scene videos and Studio editing to the matching Remotion skills
Route to other guidance

From the official docs

Permissions

Medium risk

Claude runs package commands that download code and create a project in your folder, then starts a local preview server. Run it in a folder you are happy to add a project to.

What it can do

Read your data
Create and change things
Delete things
Read-only mode

Watch out for

It installs npm packages and creates a project
The scaffold command and npm install download third-party packages. Check the folder it picks before you accept.
It starts a local preview server
Remotion Studio runs in your browser while Claude works, so keep it for the session only.

Technical details

Talks to	npm registry

Questions

How do I install remotion-create?

Use the install box above. It installs the whole Remotion set from the remotion-dev/skills repo, because this skill refers to others such as best practices, markup and interactivity.

How do I use it?

The repo README gives the example prompt /remotion-create Make a promo video for a record store.

Will it overwrite my existing folder?

The skill tells Claude to inspect the folder, including hidden files, and to scaffold into a new subfolder if there is anything meaningful in it. Files like .env and .git are not treated as disposable.

Does it need an API key?

SKILL.md mentions none. It needs Node.js and Git, and downloads packages when it scaffolds.

Is it safe?

It runs npx and npm commands that download packages and create files, then starts a local Studio. Run it in a folder you are happy to add a project to.

Information

updated Nov 2, 2026

Repository: remotion-dev/skills
Folder: skills/remotion-create

remotion-dev/skills skills.sh

Sources

Docs, issue trackers and discussions this page is built from.

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remotion-dev/skills README · github.com
remotion-create SKILL.md · github.com