“Make a 45-second explainer video with voiceover about how a heat pump heats a home in winter.”
Describe a video. Your agent directs. Your machine renders.
showtime is a local video studio for your coding agent: motion graphics, voice-over, music, captions and footage editing from one sentence, with no cloud AI services, no API keys and no uploads. It works in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Devin and OpenCode, and in any agent that supports Agent Skills.
The 0.4.1 showreel: seven real showtime films, then the features behind them on the beat, rendered by showtime on a CPU with no GPU. Music: “Supernova” by Scott Buckley, CC BY 4.0. Footage: NASA (public domain). Event data: IceCube Collaboration.
One sentence in, a finished video out
Your agent states its assumptions, shows you a first look, renders on your machine and checks the result before it calls the video done.
Install it in your agent
You need uv and Node.js 24 or 22 LTS (20 or newer works).
The first request checks what is missing and tells you the size and time, about 0.5 to 0.75 GB to download (1.4 to 1.8 GB in
~/.showtime once installed) and 2 to 6 minutes, then runs setup once you say yes. Bigger pieces, like the transcription model (Parakeet), come the first time a video needs them.
Every request gets its own folder with final.mp4, a poster, captions, exports and share copy. Nothing is overwritten.
Exact steps for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Devin, OpenCode and more →
# Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add FavioVazquez/showtime
/plugin install showtime@showtime
# any agent that supports Agent Skills
npx skills add FavioVazquez/showtime
Make a 20-second launch video for this repo, with a voice-over and upbeat music.Now showing
Each of these came from one request. Hover to preview; play for sound.
“Make a one-minute narrated video from the EIA's electricity generation data showing how the US power mix changed: coal, gas, wind and solar.”
“Make a 20-second square product promo from these museum photos of Christopher Dresser's teapot: sleek, but only facts from the museum record. Plus a 6-second bumper.”
“Make a 45-second travel slideshow of an Iceland ring-road trip from these CC0 photos, cut to the music, with a little map showing where each place is. Also a vertical version for Reels.”
X-ray
See inside a real thing, in time with its own sound
Film a typewriter typing or a music box playing. showtime draws its inside moving on the exact frames the clip's sound says, on the object as the camera moves or beside it, and proves it with a receipt.
19 of 19 events on their frame · audio 0.0 ms from the original
A crew, when you want one
Your agent can cast ten specialist sub-agents. Every finished video gets a critic by default; say "lean" to skip it (a video you will publish still gets one). Studio work brings in the whole company.
Everything renders on your machine
showtime adds no cloud service of its own. Every model and tool is downloaded once; after that it goes online only when you ask for something from the web.
Every shape
16:9, 1:1 and 9:16, with platform exports, posters, captions and README loops.
Videos that are web pages
One HTML file per video, playing offline, with chapters, keyboard control, questions that
pause and ask, and range links like #t=10-20. See one live.
Checked before it is done
showtime qa checks loudness, black or frozen frames, captions and platform specs.
A hearing pass flags music over the voice, long silences, level jumps at cuts and sound cut off at the end.
Notes on the finished video
showtime review open plays the render on a local page. Click a spot on the
frame and type a note; your agent reads it, fixes and replies. How it works.
Systems that explain themselves
showtime new diagram draws how something works as a figure that
builds over time: parts arrive in order, flows and labels move through them. The guide.
Figures people poke
The same diagram exports as one offline page with no player: hover a part, pick a step, turn a knob and the numbers answer. Try one live.
A film of your agent's session
showtime recap turns a Claude Code session into a short film of what
the agent did, from allow-listed facts only. See one.
A failing test, as a video
showtime repro turns a failing Playwright test into a narrated
bug-report video and a summary for the issue. See one.
