What is editorial-card-video?

Editorial Card Video is a skill for AI coding assistants like Claude Code and Codex CLI that turns a simple content outline into a finished short video automatically. You fill out one content spec file with a title, key points, images, and background music, and the skill generates a 20 to 24 second video styled like a paper editorial card: a cream colored paper background, magazine style layout, and a live card on the right side where an actual video clip plays inside the card with layered entrance animation and gentle floating movement, meant to feel like a page from a breathing magazine rather than a static template. The skill comes with six built in scene blueprints, thirteen reusable visual components, and three card formats, a single video card, a triptych of live cards, or a full dark background card, and switching between visual themes only requires editing one JSON file rather than rebuilding anything. It also includes a full quality control process baked in from repeated real world use, covering six checks for whether the card face renders correctly, checks that the motion inside each card region matches expectations, and checks that the starting and ending frames of the video line up properly. Installation is done by cloning the repository directly into your Claude Code or Codex CLI skills folder. Using it involves running two Node.js scripts in sequence, one to generate the live cards and one to render the final video, then working through a QC checklist before considering the output finished. It depends on Node.js, ffmpeg, Python with Pillow and numpy, and the HyperFrames component library, and its visual design credits an existing social card skill as an inspiration. The license is undetermined and all rights are reserved by the author, who asks to be contacted before any commercial use or redistribution.