Agent skill

Video Character Design

by MagicCube in MagicCube/agentara

Create character design documentation and character design sheet images for video, storyboard, advertising, animation, or AI video-generation workflows.

No licenceAuto-check passedMedia & Creative

Install Video Character Design

skills CLI
$ npx skills add MagicCube/agentara --skill video-character-design -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install MagicCube/agentara video-character-design --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MagicCube/agentara.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/user-home/.claude/skills/video-character-design .claude/skills/video-character-design && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
video-character-design
GitHub stars
516
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~3k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,075 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
21
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

Create character design documentation and character design sheet images for video, storyboard, advertising, animation, or AI video-generation workflows.

  • Works in 2 steps: {character-name}.md — the character… → {character-name}.png — the character…
  • The user asks to design a character
  • SKILL.md covers Core Rule: Spec First, Image…, Output Location, Input Modes and Character Name, plus 7 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Video Character Design is an agent skill from MagicCube/agentara. Create character design documentation and character design sheet images for video, storyboard, advertising, animation, or AI video-generation workflows. Use this skill whenever the user asks to design a character, extract a character from a reference image, make a character sheet, create a turnaround sheet, keep a person consistent across scenes, or generate character assets for a video project. This skill first writes a confirmable {character-name}.md design spec, waits for user approval or revision, and only…

Its SKILL.md is about 3k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Media & Creative, covering Comics and storyboards. The repository describes itself as: Your 24/7 personal assistant powered by Claude Code and OpenAI Codex. Multi-channel messaging, long-term memory, skills, task scheduling, session management, and more — all…

When your agent uses it

  • The user asks to design a character
  • Extract a character from a reference image
  • Make a character sheet
  • Create a turnaround sheet

Example prompts

  • “/video-character-design”

Workflow steps

2 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. {character-name}.md — the character design specification.
  2. {character-name}.png — the character design sheet image generated only after the user confirms the .md.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 5621a96. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are markdown).

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Video Character Design loads about 3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 144 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,075 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~144
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~3k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 1,075 words (~2,998 tokens).

“Use this skill to create a reusable character asset package for video planning, storyboard generation, and image-to-video generation.”

— opening of SKILL.md by MagicCube
name
video-character-design

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in user-home/.claude/skills/video-character-design of MagicCube/agentara.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 5621a96

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in MagicCube/agentara, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Questions about Video Character Design

What does Video Character Design do?

Create character design documentation and character design sheet images for video, storyboard, advertising, animation, or AI video-generation workflows. Video Character Design is an agent skill from MagicCube/agentara. Create character design documentation and character design sheet images for video, storyboard, advertising, animation, or AI video-generation workflows.

When should I use Video Character Design?

Video Character Design fits situations like: the user asks to design a character; extract a character from a reference image; make a character sheet; create a turnaround sheet.

How do I install Video Character Design in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add MagicCube/agentara --skill video-character-design -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (user-home/.claude/skills/video-character-design in MagicCube/agentara) into .claude/skills/video-character-design in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Video Character Design in Codex?

Run `npx skills add MagicCube/agentara --skill video-character-design -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (user-home/.claude/skills/video-character-design in MagicCube/agentara) into .agents/skills/video-character-design in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Video Character Design in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add MagicCube/agentara --skill video-character-design -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/video-character-design, .gemini/skills/video-character-design, .github/skills/video-character-design and .opencode/skills/video-character-design in your project.

What does Video Character Design need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Video Character Design is instructions for the agent only.

Does Video Character Design access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Video Character Design safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Video Character Design use?

No licence was found for Video Character Design or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Video Character Design use?

About 3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 12k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Video Character Design?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Video Character Design: Canghe Comic (freestylefly/canghe-skills, 461 stars), Tutti UI System (tutti-os/tutti, 3.8k stars), 3D Animation Short Generator (tl2012tl/comfyUI-llama-TE, 239 stars) and Text to PNG Card Caster (lijigang/ljg-skills, 7.5k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Video Character Design?

MagicCube (a GitHub user) maintains it in MagicCube/agentara, which has 516 GitHub stars. The repository holds 21 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on May 11, 2026.

Source: MagicCube/agentara on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.