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Remotion Best Practices

remotion-best-practices

Router for all Remotion skills

RemotionFrontendTypeScript

535K installs

remotion-dev/skills

by Remotion

Score

8.6

/ 10

Installs

535K

Repo Stars

4.7K

Last Updated

4d ago

Fresh

Quality Ratio

99%

Description

Verified

Language

TypeScript

First Published

Jan 2026

Summary

The Remotion Best Practices agent skill acts as an intelligent router, guiding an AI agent to select the most appropriate specialized Remotion skill based on the developer's specific task or intent. This agent skill is essential for developers working with Remotion to create, edit, or manage video and motion graphics projects, ensuring the AI agent provides accurate and contextually relevant assistance. It is a skill with 491K installs, indicating widespread adoption within the Remotion ecosystem. This agent skill ensures user code changes are preserved and directs the AI to load specific sub-skills like "Create a new Remotion video" for new projects, "Remotion Markup Best Practices" for React components, or "Remotion Maps" for geographic visualizations. It also covers scenarios such as multimedia editing, advanced rendering, Studio interaction, and looking up API documentation, preventing the AI from needing to manually discern which sub-skill to apply for a given task.

Skill Definition

Preserve user changes

Users may make edits in the code outside of the conversation.

If you detect a surprising change made in the meanwhile, don't overwrite it, assume it was intentional or ask for confirmation.

Creating a video

If the user asks to make, create, or build a new video or composition, load Create a new Remotion video, whether or not a Remotion project already exists.

New project setup

If no Remotion project currently exists, load Create a new Remotion project

React Markup Best Practices

If you are writing Remotion React Markup, load Remotion Markup Best Practices

Maps

For static maps, animated routes and markers, geographic explainers, Mapbox, MapLibre, MapTiler, GeoJSON, or 3D geographic flyovers, load Remotion Maps.

Multimedia

For achieving multimedia tasks in the browser, such as trimming, cropping videos, or getting metadata from them, load Remotion Multimedia

Improving Interactivity

By structuring the Remotion markup well, we can allow users to interactively change things in the Studio and write back to code. If relevant: Interactivity Best Practices

Rendering

For advanced rendering beyond simple npx remotion render, see: Rendering Best Practices

Opening Remotion Studio

To launch a project in Remotion Studio, open its exact local URL, or configure Studio CLI flags, load Remotion Studio.

Captions

When working with Captions, load Remotion Captions.

Creating a SaaS, automation or application

Use the Remotion SaaS skill for knowledge about Remotion-powered SaaS apps, such as <Player>, rendering on Lambda, Vercel, Cloudflare, via Express.js, client-side rendering, or for finding the right SaaS template.

Looking up Remotion APIs and documentation

To find and read current Remotion documentation, load Remotion Docs.

Upgrading

To upgrade Remotion, related packages, compatible Mediabunny packages, and installed Remotion Agent Skills, load Remotion Upgrade.

How to Use

Use in O-mega

Claude Code

npx skills add remotion-dev/skills remotion-best-practices
Remotion Best Practices | Agent Skills | o-mega