The Motion Skills standard
Every full-film skill clears the same bar before it goes on sale. This page is that bar, written down so you can hold us to it.
1. One full-film skill for each film type
The site is built around the films people need: a launch film, an explainer, a data film, a short for social, a narrated deck, a personal story. Each film type has its own full-film skill that knows how that kind of film is made, and each skill page says what it is for and what it is not for. We don't sell effects for their own sake.
2. Written for your material
A full-film skill doesn't fill in a template. It reads your project, notes, data or footage and writes the film from scratch on our open engine, motion-skills (mo), so no two films come out the same. The example films on each skill's page are real renders, made end to end by a coding agent with that skill, from real public material or a sample labelled as one.
3. Three directions, then a rhythm sheet
Before anything moves, the skill shows you three genuinely different directions as real key frames, drawn at the film's real size so small text and crowding show early. You pick one. It then writes a rhythm sheet: one line per stretch of the film, with its energy, its moves and its music, checked before any code is written. Is there a hook in the first three seconds? Does every section change at least two things?
4. Rhythm, restraint and a score of its own
Each scene says one thing and settles on a clean frame. Motion points at the content instead of competing with it, and the rhythm comes from contrast between stretches, not from moving fast everywhere. Every film gets an original score, written for it and fitted to its scenes.
5. Your brand, your format, your language
Set your brand once in a house style and every skill reads it; mo check warns about any colour or font it does not list. A film made for 9:16 is laid out for 9:16 rather than shrunk from a landscape frame. Chinese, Japanese and Korean text works out of the box.
6. One install, no rendering fees from us
A full-film skill runs on your own computer with Node.js 22 or newer, FFmpeg and Chrome. The film renders on your machine: no credits, and no other service to sign up for to render it. Your coding agent's own usage is billed by its plan or API; narration with ElevenLabs or HeyGen, if you choose it, needs your own key and is billed by that service. Your material is read by the agent you use and by the voice service you pick, and stays on your machine otherwise.
7. Checked by the engine, then by fresh eyes
Three checks run on every film. mo check finds text that is cut off, covered or too low in contrast. mo audit checks every line on screen against the film's sources. mo qa finds single-frame pops and blank or silent stretches in the render, and for a narrated film measures the pace. Before delivery, a fresh agent that did not make the film reviews it with only your request, the film, the chosen direction and the rhythm sheet, and what it finds is fixed and checked again.
8. Nothing made up
Every number, quote, name and claim on screen comes from your material or from a source the film names. When something can't be sourced, the agent tells you instead of inventing it.
9. Blind-tested before it goes on sale
Before a full-film skill goes on sale, fresh agents make films with it from test material, and other fresh agents score those films from 1 to 5 without knowing which skill made them. A skill goes on sale only when Opus scores it at least 3.8 on average and a full 5 on truth. Until then its page says it is in testing and it isn't sold.
10. Motion templates: the same design every time
Motion templates are different: fixed designs your agent fills in with your words and numbers, the same way every time. They share one kit of fonts and easing and five tested themes, and you can set your own accent, background and text color. Each template passes the HyperFrames check (lint, runtime, layout, motion and contrast) in all five themes and every format it lists.
11. Honest credits and clear limits
When a skill or template learned from an open-source project, its page names the project, and any license ships in the download. A film can take after a well-known style, but we never ship another company's logo or trademarked assets, or a pixel-for-pixel copy of a real app's interface. Every page also says what it is not for, and points to a better skill when there is one.
Questions, or a skill that doesn't meet this bar? Write to hi@claude-motion.com.