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The best Claude skills for video and images

Start with HyperFrames from HeyGen: it scores highest here, 91, has over 1.3 million installs, and turns HTML scenes into MP4 video through its own CLI, with a lint, snapshot and preview loop before rendering. The list also covers canvas-design for poster art, Remotion, paid generators, footage editing with video-use, launch videos with brag, and films drawn in code by lemo-opuscar and video-shotcraft.

The 15 skills made for this job

  1. 1

    HyperFrames

    For people who want Claude to build videos or live slide decks as HTML and render them to MP4. Skip it if you can't install Node.js 22 and FFmpeg or prefer cutting footage by hand.

    Score 92 1.5M installs Official

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  2. 2

    canvas-design

    For people who want an abstract, gallery-style poster or art print as a PNG or PDF. Skip it if you need a branded ad, a slide or an editable design file.

    Score 88 131K installs Official

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  3. 3

    Remotion

    For people who want Claude to build videos as React code with a live Studio preview. Skip it if you'd rather edit footage on a timeline by hand or can't run Node.js.

    Score 83 796K installs Official High-risk warning

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  4. 4

    Higgsfield

    For marketers and creators with a Higgsfield account who want images, video, ads or sites made from chat. Skip it if you will not pay for generation credits.

    Score 83 24K installs Official

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  5. 5

    mmx-cli

    For developers who want MiniMax models for chat, images, video, speech and transcription from the terminal. Skip it if you have no MiniMax API key or plan.

    Score 76 32.5K installs Official

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  6. 6

    design

    For founders and designers who want logos, brand mockups, banners, icons and social images from one skill. Skip it if you have no Gemini API key or only need app UI code.

    Score 74 49.9K installs

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  7. 7

    hypit

    For creators who want Claude to plan, generate and assemble short videos with Hypit. Skip it if you have no budget for generation credits or prefer cutting footage yourself.

    Score 74 26.7K installs Official

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  8. 8

    baoyu-infographic

    For writers and marketers who want an article or notes turned into a single infographic image. Skip it if you have no image generation tool set up or need a chart you can edit.

    Score 73 33.5K installs

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  9. 9

    brag

    For builders who want a short, shareable launch video made straight from their project's code. Skip it if you can't run Node.js and the Hyperframes tools.

    Score 72 21K GitHub stars

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  10. 10

    baoyu-image-gen

    For people who want Claude to create images through their own keys for OpenAI, Google, Replicate and others. Skip it if you have no image API key or Codex login.

    Score 71 34.2K installs High-risk warning

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  11. 11

    anatomy

    For writers and developers who want a detailed, animated isometric figure to explain a system. Skip it if a quick box-and-arrow diagram will do or you lack Node.js.

    Score 70 26.5K GitHub stars

    Get anatomy
  12. 12

    video-use

    For creators who want talking-head, tutorial or interview footage cut and subtitled by chat. Skip it if you won't send audio to ElevenLabs or prefer a timeline editor.

    Score 68 30.9K GitHub stars Official

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  13. 13

    video-shotcraft

    For product teams who want a cinematic promo cut in Remotion from their real app screens. Skip it if a plain screen recording is enough or you can't run Node and ffmpeg.

    Score 66 18.6K GitHub stars

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  14. 14

    ian-xiaohei-illustrations

    For Chinese-language writers who want quirky hand-drawn images placed through an article. Skip it if you write in English or your agent has no image tool.

    Score 58 13.2K GitHub stars

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  15. 15

    lemo-opuscar

    For creators who want short styled films drawn entirely in code, from oil paint to satellite briefings. Skip it if you just need to trim or convert video you already have.

    Score 55 14.4K GitHub stars

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Also useful for video

Their main job is something else, but they help with this one.

  • excalidraw-diagram-generator

    For people who want editable flowcharts, mind maps or architecture sketches made from a written description. Skip it if you need large diagrams with dozens of exact parts.

    Score 78 34.5K installs Official

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  • ppt-master

    For people who need real, editable PPTX decks built from documents, topics or their own templates. Skip it if a web or PDF slideshow is enough for you.

    Score 74 75.8K GitHub stars

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  • huashu-design

    For people who want HTML prototypes, slide decks, infographics or animations, starting from three drafts to choose from. Skip it for production web apps.

    Score 73 53K installs

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  • Garden Skills

    For designers and developers who want polished HTML pages, prototypes and decks built step by step with checkpoints. Skip it if you mainly write back-end or CLI code.

    Score 73 14.9K GitHub stars

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  • fireworks-tech-graph

    For engineers who want clean architecture and workflow diagrams as SVG, PNG or GIF from a description. Skip it for photos, raster art or data charts.

    Score 71 12K GitHub stars

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  • diagram-design

    For people who want clean, on-brand diagrams and charts as single HTML files with inline SVG. Skip it if a quick Mermaid sketch or ASCII drawing is all you need.

    Score 69 27.4K installs

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  • watch

    For people who want Claude to summarize or answer questions about a YouTube link or video file. Skip it if you can't install ffmpeg and yt-dlp or add a Gemini key.

    Score 65 20.5K GitHub stars

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  • visual-explainer

    For developers who want diffs, plans and systems explained as a visual HTML page. Skip it if plain text answers in the terminal suit you fine.

    Score 59 10.9K GitHub stars

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  • scroll-world

    For brands that want a scroll-driven 3D world as a landing page hero. Skip it if you can't pay per AI video clip or need a small, light page.

    Score 52 10.9K GitHub stars

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How to choose

HyperFrames builds each scene as HTML driven by a paused GSAP timeline, then renders to MP4 locally or in the cloud. It needs Node.js 22 and FFmpeg. A HeyGen sign-in is optional, for catalog music, voices and generated media. It can also port Remotion code with frame-by-frame diffs.

Remotion suits developers who think in React. Claude scaffolds a project, opens Remotion Studio for a live preview and renders only when you plainly ask; at least one scanner rated it high risk. video-shotcraft uses Remotion to cut a promo video from your real app screens, with instructions in Chinese.

For other video jobs, video-use cuts real footage by chat after transcribing every clip through ElevenLabs, so it needs that API key. brag reads your project's code and makes a 15 to 25 second launch video with Hyperframes. lemo-opuscar draws short films in code in one of 66 styles.

To generate media rather than code it, Higgsfield needs an account and paid credits, mmx-cli drives MiniMax for images, video and speech, and hypit plans and assembles short videos. baoyu-image-gen sends prompts to providers such as OpenAI; at least one scanner rated it high risk.

For still images, canvas-design from Anthropic draws one poster or art piece as a PNG or PDF, with nothing extra to install. design makes logos and banners with a Gemini API key, baoyu-infographic turns text into one infographic, and anatomy draws animated isometric figures that explain a system.

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