Agents365-ai/video-podcast-maker
Turns a topic into a narrated 4K explainer video: research, narration script, local text-to-speech, a Remotion composition with subtitles, and a render with background music mixed in by ffmpeg.
From a topic, the agent works through an 11-step pipeline: research, a sectioned narration script, text-to-speech with the free Edge voices or Azure Speech, a Remotion composition with subtitles, then a 4K render mixed with background music in ffmpeg. The generated narration audio sets the timing for slides and subtitles, and the run stops for a Remotion Studio preview and an explicit render confirmation before the final render. It can also cut vertical highlight clips and draft publish details for Bilibili, YouTube, Xiaohongshu, Douyin and WeChat Channels. You need Python, Node.js, ffmpeg and a Remotion project, and it is built for narrated explainers rather than scripted drama.
01From the README
The install command quoted from the repository README.
npx skills add Agents365-ai/video-podcast-maker/skills/video-podcast-maker -g02skills CLI, for Claude Code, Codex and others
The open skills CLI from Vercel Labs installs a skill from a GitHub repo into the folder each agent expects. It asks which skills and which agents you want, and it installs for the current project unless you add the -g flag, which installs for your user account. Add --list to see what a repo contains before you install anything.
npx skills add https://github.com/Agents365-ai/video-podcast-maker/tree/main/skills/video-podcast-maker03Claude Code, skills folder
Copy the skill's folder, the one that holds SKILL.md, into ~/.claude/skills/ to use it in every project on your machine, or into .claude/skills/ in a repository to use it there and share it by committing it. Claude Code picks up changes to these folders during a session. If the folder did not exist when the session started, run /reload-skills.
04Claude Code, plugin marketplace
Some repos publish a plugin marketplace, a .claude-plugin/marketplace.json file. Add it in Claude Code, then install a plugin from it with /plugin install plugin-name@marketplace-name. Plugins can bundle hooks and MCP servers along with skills, so read the details panel before you confirm.
/plugin marketplace add Agents365-ai/video-podcast-maker05Codex, skills folder or $skill-installer
Codex reads skills from .agents/skills in your working folder and its parent folders up to the repository root, and from $HOME/.agents/skills for every repository. Copy the skill's folder into one of them, or run $skill-installer inside Codex and ask it to install from the repo. Codex detects new skills automatically and needs a restart only if one does not appear.
The first command is quoted from the author's README. The others are the standard ways to install a skill from a GitHub repository. They are templates and may not apply here, for example if the repo has no plugin marketplace, so follow the README first.
The production stages this skill covers, and where Pencil0 picks up.
calesthio/OpenMontage
An open-source repo in which a coding agent directs video production through staged pipelines, with a large set of skills on video-model APIs, music, speech, editing and composition.
heygen-com/hyperframes
HeyGen's 21 skills for its open-source HTML-to-video framework: an agent plans, codes and renders explainers, launch videos, captions and music-synced clips as deterministic MP4s.
HBAI-Ltd/Toonflow-app
Skills that come with the open-source Toonflow canvas app: a production workflow with Seedance 2.0/2.5 prompt rules, a canvas manual, a text-storyboard skill and an MCP skill for outside agents.
MiniMax-AI/MiniMax-H3
MiniMax's official skills for its H3 video model: one portable prompt-writing skill plus eight style-specific video workflows that need the MiniMax Hub agent.
dramaclaw/dramaclaw
An agent skill that moves a novel or script already loaded into a DramaClaw project through its AI drama pipeline, starting one queued step per message.
ArcReel/ArcReel
Skills that let an agent drive ArcReel, a self-hosted AI video workbench, from script prompts and reference sheets through storyboard stills, clips, narration and a timeline edit.
This is a third-party skill. It is not maintained or audited by Pencil0, and skills can run scripts on your machine, so read the SKILL.md and any scripts before installing. Stars, license and dates are a GitHub snapshot and may be out of date.