Studio Kit manual

What lands on your machine

One folder. Unzip it somewhere permanent, because Claude Code reads the plugin from wherever it lives; installing from a temporary folder and deleting it breaks the plugin.

• skills/ the six-phase workflow, plus reference files on prompt structure, topic selection, generation settings and caption style
• commands/ the /short and /captions entry points
• scripts/ five tools you can also run on their own, outside Claude
• reference/ six finished films and their stills, caption-free
• prompt-pack/ the complete Prompt Pack, included in full
• INSTRUCTIONS.md the same manual you are reading, offline

Install

Two commands inside Claude Code. The first registers the unzipped folder as a source, the second installs the plugin from it. Substitute your own path if you unzipped elsewhere.

/plugin marketplace add ~/Downloads/blenderspot-studio-kit
/plugin install blenderspot-studio-kit@blenderspot-studio-kit

Check your machine once

Captioning needs ffmpeg and Python. The bundled doctor checks everything and prints the exact install command for whatever is missing. On a Mac it is usually two lines, and it takes about five minutes.

Prompt writing and the safety preflight need none of that, so you can start before you finish setting up.

python3 skills/blenderspot-shorts/scripts/doctor.py

Your first video

Type a topic. Claude checks it against the rejection rules before anything is spent, researches the real mechanism and shows you its sources, writes the eight narration lines and eight shots, builds the prompt with every required block in place, then preflights it.

You get either a finished file or a checked prompt with the exact settings, depending on the mode below. About ten minutes of your attention.

/short why your stomach growls when you are not hungry

Two ways it can run

It picks based on what is connected and tells you which one it is using. Handoff is the right choice when you want to see the prompt before spending, or pick your own settings in the web app.

• Assisted with a generation account connected to Claude, it generates, waits, downloads and captions without you leaving the chat
• Handoff it writes and checks the prompt, prints it with the exact model settings, and captions the clip you bring back

Captioning on its own

Works on any vertical video, whether or not this kit made it. The timings come from the audio and the words come from your script, so a misheard word cannot reach the screen. Paste your lines into the chat if you do not have a script file.

It always shows you the caption timing table before encoding, so a mismatched script is caught immediately rather than after a render.

/captions ~/Downloads/my-clip.mp4

Reference films

Six finished films travel with the kit, plus a still from each. Open one before your first prompt: the style is described in words in the template, but seeing it is quicker than reading it.

Feed a frame back in when a new film should match an existing character or room. One frame does more than another paragraph of description.

Every clip has the caption band cropped off first, because a reference with captions burned into it makes the generator copy them into your new film and no prompt text prevents it. The included guide gives you the one-line crop for your own footage.

Longer films

Ask for 45 or 60 seconds and it splits the film into 15 second parts with the continuity language handled, then captions each part and stitches them into one file. Nothing extra to configure.

Running the tools yourself

Everything the plugin does is a plain script. Nothing depends on Claude being in the loop.

• build_prompt assembles a full prompt from a small spec file, so no required block can go missing
• preflight scans a prompt for everything known to cause a rejection, before you spend anything
• burn_captions captions any clip you have the script for, with every style value overridable
• build_episode captions each part of a multi-part film and stitches them
• doctor checks your machine and prints the fix for anything missing

Changing the caption look

The defaults match the films on this site. Every value is a command line flag, so nothing needs editing to retarget a different channel style.

--font-size 82  --y-anchor 0.80  --max-words 3  --stroke 5

When something goes wrong

• A generation was rejected work the diagnostic order in the safety rules. The first question is whether the character is in trouble, because that one is not fixable by rewording
• Captions appeared in the video anyway you used a reference clip with captions burned into it. The model copies them and no prompt text prevents it
• It rendered the wrong body part you used a generic word for the subject instead of its real name in every scene
• The narration mispronounced a word acronyms and rare long words get mangled by the voice engine. Rewrite the line in plain words
• Captions look wrong dry run to see the timing table, then adjust position and size with the flags above
• Something will not install run doctor, it prints the exact command for your operating system

What it does not do

Worth knowing before you buy rather than after.

• Generation credits are not included. You generate on your own account and the films are yours
• It cannot promise a topic will never be rejected. The rules cut it down a long way, but content policies move
• It researches and cites, but you own the accuracy of anything published under your name
• No publishing, no thumbnails, no titles or descriptions. It makes the film, not the listing
• It is a stock-3D explainer system with three style variants, not a general purpose video tool