showtime

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1132aa71-7fe5-4345-a925-790d80462fda

Quick start

1. Install the two prerequisites (details in Requirements): uv and Node.js 24 or 22 LTS (20 or newer works). Restart your coding agent afterwards so it sees them.

2. Add showtime to your agent. In Claude Code:

/plugin marketplace add FavioVazquez/showtime
/plugin install showtime@showtime

Using Codex, Cursor, Devin, OpenCode or another agent? Works with has the exact install for each, and npx skills add FavioVazquez/showtime covers any agent that supports Agent Skills.

3. Ask for a video:

Make a 20-second launch video for this repo, with a voice-over and upbeat music.

The first time, your agent checks what is missing, tells you the download size and time (about 0.6 to 0.8 GB into ~/.showtime, depending on your system, usually 2 to 6 minutes; nothing outside that folder changes) and runs setup once you say yes. Bigger pieces (the transcription model, Manim, music tracks) come the first time a video needs them, announced with their size. After that, a request in Claude Code looks like this:

Your agent states its assumptions in one line (it asks only when a request is genuinely open), shows you a first look (stills or a fast draft) before the full-quality render, then checks the result with showtime qa. Every request gets its own folder, showtime-out/<name>-<timestamp>/, with final.mp4, poster.jpg, share.txt, exports/ and work/. Nothing is ever overwritten.

[!TIP] Say "show me options first" (or "studio") and your agent opens a local board where you pick a concept, a look, a music bed and a storyboard before anything is built. Say "no crew" to keep the whole job in one session.

What's new in 0.3.0 (the full list is below):

• A full review on every video, and quieter runs. Each finished video gets looks, qa and a critic round before delivery; say "lean" for a lighter pass. Commands print a short verdict and keep the detail in a file, references are read by the piece (showtime guide), and looks at frames go to a disposable reviewer, so less piles up in your agent's context.
• Videos that differ from each other. A local look history warns when a video repeats a recent one, and showtime reference learns pace and type scale from a video you like, never its content.
• Checks for what viewers complain about. A phone check (text you can read at phone size, held long enough), and pairwise review, where a new version ships only if the critic prefers it in both orders.
• New kinds of video. Repo and paper explainers, release and PR videos (showtime release-video, and a GitHub Action), launches that start from your product's real brand, and showtime adopt for video code you already have.
• A receipt for every job: your request as typed, the rounds, renders and time, and tokens and cost where your agent reports them.

In my blind vote in benchmark round 4, 0.3.0 in lean mode was preferred to 0.2.0 on 4 of 6 tasks and to plain Claude Code on 7 of 8; the full-review default came after that round and was not part of it.

Works with

showtime is a skill, a command line and an MCP server, so it runs in any coding agent that reads Agent Skills and can run shell commands. MCP adds typed tools on top, and the ten crew agents are an optional speed-up for hosts that have custom sub-agents.

Tested with. A real run passed: the agent installed showtime from this repository and made a 5-second test video ("make a 5-second test video that says hello", empty folder), ending in a `final.mp