Setup Guide for Remotion Superpowers

This skill contains knowledge for helping users set up the plugin and troubleshoot issues. The step-by-step wizard is the setup skill; keep advice here consistent with it.

Required companion: Remotion's official Agent Skills

Remotion Superpowers layers on top of Remotion's 12 official skills (remotion-best-practices, remotion-captions, remotion-create, remotion-docs, remotion-interactivity, remotion-maps, remotion-markup, remotion-multimedia, remotion-render, remotion-saas, remotion-studio, remotion-upgrade). This plugin owns media generation; the official skills own markup, scaffolding, preview, captions and rendering.

• Install: npx skills add remotion-dev/skills (detects the installed agents and installs to each; select all 12 if asked)
• Update: npx remotion upgrade from the project (also updates project-local skills), or npx skills update <the 12 names> --yes when @remotion/cli isn't installed
• New project: scaffold as official remotion-create says: inspect the folder first, then npx create-video@latest --yes --blank --no-tailwind (. for an empty folder, or a subfolder name), then npm i. Don't recommend Tailwind unless the user asks.
• Launch directory: start the agent from the Remotion project root; remotion-media tools write to public/ of the directory the agent was launched from.

Provider skills this plugin builds on

• ElevenLabs (voice, SFX, music, transcription): npx skills add elevenlabs/skills. Generation runs through its SDK with ELEVENLABS_API_KEY. The ElevenLabs MCP server in this plugin is deprecated upstream and kept for one more release.
• Replicate (optional models): npx skills add replicate/skills, with the local replicate-mcp server and REPLICATE_API_TOKEN.
• TwelveLabs has no Agent Skills; point to https://docs.twelvelabs.io.

Optional add-ons (not bundled)

Official servers from other providers that pair well with Remotion videos. Mention them only if the user asks for more models:

• fal: official MCP server with hundreds of image and video models (https://fal.ai/docs/documentation/setting-up/mcp)
• Runway: official MCP server for Runway video models (https://github.com/runwayml/runway-api-mcp-server)
• Google Gemini: official google-gemini/gemini-skills for Veo and Imagen via the Gemini API
• Codex users: OpenAI's official Remotion plugin covers Remotion markup; this plugin adds the media on top.

Rule Files

• rules/api-keys-setup.md — Detailed instructions for obtaining each API key, signup URLs, free tiers, and pricing info