Does it work in the Claude app or website?

Not usefully. The skills assume a local project, a terminal, Remotion Studio, and renders on your machine, so they are built for Claude Code and other coding agents. Remotion's docs list Claude Code, Codex, Kimi Code, and Cursor as the intended agents.

Is Remotion itself free to use with these skills?

Only for some. Individuals, non-profits, and for-profit companies with up to 3 employees use Remotion free, including commercially; for-profit organizations with 4 or more employees need a paid company license. The skills carry no separate cost.

What exactly gets installed?

Twelve skills into .claude/skills/ in your project: a router (/remotion-best-practices) plus eleven task skills for creating, writing markup, previewing, rendering, maps, captions, interactivity, multimedia, SaaS architecture, docs lookup, and upgrading. One command installs the lot: npx skills add remotion-dev/skills.

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Remotion Claude Skill

The remotion claude skill people are searching for is Remotion Agent Skills, the official pack shipped by the Remotion team itself. It is twelve skills, not one — a router (/remotion-best-practices) plus eleven task skills covering project creation, React markup, Studio previews, rendering, map animations, captions, SaaS architecture, docs lookup, multimedia handling, and upgrades — maintained inside the Remotion monorepo at packages/skills and mirrored to remotion-dev/skills for one-command install. The repo sits at about 4,500 stars, was pushed the day we verified it, and versions in lockstep with Remotion releases (4.0.520 at time of writing), so staleness is not the worry here. The one thing to know before installing: the skills are free, but Remotion itself is not free for everyone. For-profit companies with four or more employees need a paid company license, and nothing in the install flow will stop you from building a video pipeline first and discovering that second.

View the sourceNo LICENSE file in the skills repo; content ships from the Remotion monorepo under the custom Remotion License licensed · 4,461★ · facts checked September 1, 2026

By Robert MacKelfresh

Founder, Automation Squad · September 1, 2026

Install

1Have Node.js installed, then create a Remotion project if you don't have one: npx create-video --yes --blank my-video, cd in, and npm install. (An existing Remotion project works too.)
2Run npx skills add remotion-dev/skills — this installs all twelve skills into .claude/skills/ in the project; add -g to install to ~/.claude/skills for every project. Inside a Remotion project, npx remotion skills add does the same thing.
3Alternatively, bun create video (or npx create-video) offers to add the skills during project setup, so new projects can skip step 2.
4Start the preview with npm run dev, open Claude Code in a second terminal, and prompt — either directly ("/remotion-create Make a promo video for a record store") or in plain English and let the router skill pick.

What it does

Project creation: /remotion-create scaffolds a new Remotion project or composition from a prompt (example from its own docs: "/remotion-create Make a promo video for a record store"); the router skill /remotion-best-practices dispatches to the right sub-skill when you don't specify one.
Writing video markup: /remotion-markup encodes best practices for Remotion React code — compositions, animations, layout, typography, media elements, effects, audio, fonts, and timing — so the agent writes idiomatic Remotion instead of guessing from training data.
Preview and render: /remotion-studio launches Remotion Studio at the project's exact local URL for previews; /remotion-render invokes a render to a finished video or still, including guidance for advanced rendering beyond plain npx remotion render.
Specialist domains: /remotion-maps handles animated routes, markers, GeoJSON, Mapbox/MapLibre/MapTiler, and 3D CesiumJS flyovers; /remotion-captions covers subtitles; /remotion-multimedia covers browser-side trimming, cropping, and metadata via Mediabunny; /remotion-saas gives architecture guidance for Player embeds and Lambda/Vercel/Cloudflare rendering.
Maintenance: /remotion-docs searches current Remotion documentation and fetches any page as Markdown before the agent implements; /remotion-upgrade updates Remotion, related packages, and the installed skills themselves; /remotion-interactivity makes elements selectable and editable in Studio.

Common questions

Is there an official Remotion skill for Claude?: Yes. Remotion Agent Skills are maintained by the Remotion team inside the remotion monorepo (packages/skills) and mirrored to remotion-dev/skills for installation. They were announced in January 2026 and are updated with every Remotion release.
Does it work in the Claude app or website?: Not usefully. The skills assume a local project, a terminal, Remotion Studio, and renders on your machine, so they are built for Claude Code and other coding agents. Remotion's docs list Claude Code, Codex, Kimi Code, and Cursor as the intended agents.
Is Remotion itself free to use with these skills?: Only for some. Individuals, non-profits, and for-profit companies with up to 3 employees use Remotion free, including commercially; for-profit organizations with 4 or more employees need a paid company license. The skills carry no separate cost.
What exactly gets installed?: Twelve skills into .claude/skills/ in your project: a router (/remotion-best-practices) plus eleven task skills for creating, writing markup, previewing, rendering, maps, captions, interactivity, multimedia, SaaS architecture, docs lookup, and upgrading. One command installs the lot: npx skills add remotion-dev/skills.

Before you install

The skills are free but Remotion is not free for everyone: the Remotion License grants free use to individuals, non-profits, and for-profit companies with up to 3 employees; for-profit organizations of 4+ employees need a paid company license. Nothing in the skill install flow surfaces this.
The remotion-dev/skills repo has no LICENSE file of its own and GitHub detects no license; the content is generated from the Remotion monorepo, whose custom Remotion License is source-available but not OSI open source.
These are coding-agent skills, built around a local Node toolchain, Studio previews, and renders on your machine. They target Claude Code, Codex, Kimi Code, Cursor and similar; uploading them to claude.ai's chat Skills gets you the text but not a usable workflow, since there is no long-running Studio or local render there.
Search results for this query are crowded with unofficial lookalikes — haidrrrry/claude-remotion-skill, wshuyi/remotion-video-skill, buainoai/remotion-skills and others — so it is easy to install a third-party pack believing it is the official one.
The skills version in lockstep with Remotion (4.0.520 at verification) and change frequently; a copied-in install goes stale and needs /remotion-upgrade or a reinstall to stay current.
The maps skill leans on third-party services (Mapbox, MapTiler, CesiumJS) that require their own accounts and API keys, and Remotion's docs note that the coding agents themselves generally require a paid subscription.

Facts come from the skill's own repository and docs on the date above, via the GitHub API — not from memory, and never from a sponsor.

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