Simon Skills

What it does

• investigation-video: one prompt runs the full pipeline — investigation and script, TTS narration, footage matching, Remotion compositing, mixing, acceptance, covers and platform copy
• Subtitle timing comes straight from Volcano TTS enable_subtitle per-character timestamps — alignment is data processing, not speech recognition
• A per-segment footage coverage table gates rendering: segments without enough real moving footage get material first, never rendered with gaps
• whiteboard-video: two-minute explainer where every stroke is drawn by code, with Codex-generated stickers and per-episode 4:3 covers
• Six narrative types (accounts, cost, rules, process, comparison, identity) rotate with distinct motion-graphic forms, and each visual element carries a minimum on-screen reading time

When to use it

Chinese-language creators running a faceless video account — consumer-investigation long-forms or short whiteboard explainers — who want repeatable, machine-checked production lines rather than one-off templates.

Getting started

git clone https://github.com/trustfuture/simon-skills.git
cd simon-skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
for s in investigation-video whiteboard-video video-common; do
  ln -sfn "$PWD/skills/$s" ~/.claude/skills/$s
done
# Codex: use ~/.codex/skills instead. Then configure each skill per its own README
# (investigation-video needs Node 18+, pinned Remotion, FFmpeg, Python, and Volcano Engine TTS credentials)

Things to know

Volcano Engine TTS credentials are required for the investigation-video narration step, and the docs are Chinese throughout. video-common must be installed as a sibling of the two skills — both reference it via ../video-common/. Remotion is deliberately pinned (4.0.508 in investigation-video's README) — the author documents that upgrades broke animation timing and layout. Symlinks mean updates are one git pull away. MIT.