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Papercut Explainer
One idea, unfolded in cut paper: step cards pop up like a pop-up book.
How it works
- 1Copy the install prompt and paste it into your agent.
- 2Your agent runs mo doctor to check Node.js, FFmpeg and Chrome, and tells you how to install anything missing.
- 3Give it your material. It renders an MP4 on your computer, and you ask for changes in plain words.
Paste into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or any agent that supports skills.
All it takes
No API keyThis is all it needs
- A document, article or script
Dependencies
Node.js 22+, FFmpeg, Chrome. No API keys.
Before it starts, your agent runs mo doctor to check Node.js, FFmpeg and Chrome and tells you how to install anything missing; if this skill needs more (such as whisper for captions), its instructions say so.
Example prompt
Make a papercut explainer of how our product works, from the three steps on our homepage, ending on our tagline.
Style prompt (Claude Motion or Opus 5.5)
Make a 20-second 16:9 cut-paper explainer for [who will watch, e.g. residents in our city], playing [where, e.g. the council website and Instagram]. Use only the title and three steps below; don't add facts. Warm sand background. Scene 1: three wavy paper hills in shades of rust slide up from the bottom with soft shadows and drift slowly sideways, and a pale paper sun rises. Scene 2: a cream paper banner drops in, slightly tilted, with the title. Scene 3: three cream paper cards slide in from the right one at a time, each with a rust cut-paper badge (a circle "1", a triangle "2", a rotated square "3") and a step. End frame: the closing line and a small subtitle, held for 2 seconds. Title: [e.g. "How compost feeds a city"] Three steps: [e.g. "Collect — Kitchen scraps go in the green bin", "Break down", "Grow"] Closing line: [e.g. "Small scraps, big loop."]
Nothing to install: paste this into Claude Motion (Team or Enterprise) or give it to Opus 5.5 for a similar look. The result changes from run to run; the skill works from your own material and renders on your computer.
