How to use the Lemo-Opuscar Film Maker agent skill

What the skill makes the agent do

An agent skill is a folder of instructions and scripts that an AI agent loads when your request matches its description. This one covers films, promos, explainers and animations. When you ask for one in a named style, the agent fetches the Lemo-Opuscar style library from GitHub, follows the library's guides to plan a treatment, builds the film in a project folder and tells you where the output is.

The skill also covers three smaller jobs: helping you choose a style when you have a topic but no style in mind, helping you change a style or make your own from a blank page, and cutting a new film from real archive footage and documents. It does not cover simple trimming, cutting or format conversion of an existing video file.

• Films in named styles, for example Impasto Oil Painting 油画厚涂, Watercolor Brush 水彩笔刷, Ukiyo-e 浮世绘, Satellite Briefing 卫星简报 and Exploded Teardown 产品拆解
• Explainers built from real material such as satellite imagery, laser scans, CAD files or archive scans
• New films cut from archive footage and documents
• Your own styles, saved in ~/lemo-my-styles/

Install the lemo-opuscar skill

There are two routes. For Claude Code, download the skill ZIP from this page and unzip it into ~/.claude/skills/ for all your projects, or into a project's .claude/skills/ folder for that project only. In the Claude apps, upload the ZIP under Settings → Capabilities → Skills.

The skill's files are scripts/setup.sh and SKILL.md. The setup script clones the Lemo-Opuscar library into ~/lemo-opuscar by default, or uses a clone you are already standing in. Git is needed for the clone.

• Route 1: unzip into ~/.claude/skills/ (all projects) or .claude/skills/ (one project)
• Route 2: upload the ZIP in the Claude apps under Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Check the requirements before you start

The skill does not install system software. You need these on your machine first. The skill will report anything missing in its one round of questions, and you install it yourself.

The skill's dependency step installs a headless browser for you. Voice (text-to-speech and speech check) and music (pluck.py, numba) packages are optional and only needed if your film uses them. Packages a particular style needs are listed in that style's STYLE.md and are installed into your project folder.

• Git, to clone the library from GitHub
• Node.js and npm
• ffmpeg
• Python 3
• Optional: voice and music packages, only if the film needs them
• The skill runs scripts and uses the network, so review what it runs if that matters to you

Trigger the skill with a natural request

You do not need special syntax. Say what you want in plain language, and name a style if you have one. The skill also triggers when you have a topic but no style, when you ask which styles exist, or when you start it without saying what you want. In that case the agent asks which language you prefer, then offers the ways in.

Include the material if you have it. An explainer built from satellite imagery, laser scans, CAD files or archive scans needs those files, and a request that mentions them is more likely to trigger the right path.

• "Make a 30-second promo for my bakery in Ukiyo-e style."
• "Make an explainer about this satellite image sequence in Satellite Briefing style."
• "Make a product teardown video of this CAD file."
• "Which film styles are there?"
• "I have a topic but no style, help me choose one."
• "Cut a short news film from these archive clips."

What you get back

The agent works in a project folder named <name>/ inside the folder you started from. Names use lowercase letters, digits and hyphens, and should avoid # and ? in the path. The agent writes a treatment, builds the film, and lists the delivered files in the project folder. Expect iteration: the agent may need several rounds to get the look and timing right.

• A project folder with the treatment and build files
• The delivered film output, listed in the folder where the agent tells you it is

Tips for better results

Tell the agent the length, audience and the one message the film must land. Name a style or describe what you want it to look like. If you have real material, provide it at the start rather than after the treatment is written.

Keep your own styles in ~/lemo-my-styles/ so you can reuse them. Plan for a review round, because a generated film is a draft until you have watched it.

• Give length, audience and the main message in your first request
• Provide real source files at the start
• Save styles you like in ~/lemo-my-styles/ to reuse them
• Budget time for at least one revision