Video-shotcraft: AI Video Generation Tool for Claude Code and Remotion
The open-source repository video-shotcraft has been released, offering an AI video generation tool and template library designed for Claude Code and Codex. It includes 106 shot recipe cards, 161 motion previews, and a production-ready template to generate cinematic product videos using Remotion. This tool bridges the gap between AI coding agents and programmatic video creation, allowing developers to automate video production workflows directly from their terminal or IDE. It demonstrates how agentic workflows can be applied to creative and marketing tasks like product video generation. Written in TypeScript, the project leverages Remotion to programmatically render videos in React and is optimized to work as a "skill" for Anthropic's Claude Code. It provides pre-configured motion previews and templates to help AI agents generate high-quality visual layouts without manual editing.
## BACKGROUND
Remotion is a popular React framework that allows developers to create videos programmatically using web technologies like CSS, Canvas, and SVG. Claude Code is a terminal-based agentic coding tool developed by Anthropic that can read codebases, execute commands, and write code. Combining these technologies enables AI agents to generate and edit video assets by writing and compiling React code.