Prompt 01 Setup and guardrails

Skills check

Purpose: Confirm Claude can see and has read the Remotion agent skills before any generation.
Use when: First session in studio/, after npx remotion skills add, after installing the Remotion plugin, or when output looks like Claude is ignoring Remotion conventions.
Stage: Setup, before 00-master-workflow.md on a new machine or project.
Inputs you must fill in: None.
Expected output: A list of the skills found and which workflow each covers for planning, type, transitions, audio, preview/render and QA. No code, no files changed.
Next prompt: 02-deterministic-rule.md, then 00-master-workflow.md.

Source: notes §2 step 3, verbatim.

Prompt

Inspect this project and identify the Remotion agent skills
available to you.

Read the relevant skill instructions before creating anything.
Tell me which workflows you will use for:
- Creative planning
- Animation and typography
- Scene transitions
- Audio
- Previewing and rendering
- Quality assurance

Do not build the video yet.

Studio additions

Look in studio/.claude/skills/ (official Remotion skills, start with remotion-best-practices) and in ~/.claude/skills/ (personal skills such as motion-studio). Also read studio/DESIGN_SYSTEM.md and list the components in studio/src/lib/. Tell me which scripts exist in studio/package.json for preview, stills and render. If something the workflow needs is missing (for example the stills script or a skill), say what and stop.

Setup reference (notes §2), run by you, not pasted to Claude:

npx create-video@latest --yes --blank motion-studio
cd motion-studio
npx remotion skills add
npm run dev

claude plugin marketplace add remotion-dev/claude-code-plugin
claude plugin install remotion@remotion

In this repo the project already exists as studio/; run npm run dev there in one terminal and claude in a second.

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