Agentic Skills Pack — setup

The Agentic Skills Pack is a set of ready-to-run agentic workflows and prompting skills — the exact ones we use to make our own videos. Your AI agent (Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, or any MCP client) reads them and drives Slates for you: faceless YouTube videos, UGC ads, product demos, batch B-roll, and more, hands-off.

Before you start: the pack rides on the Slates agent connection. If your AI tool isn't wired to Slates yet, do Connect Claude & AI agents first — it takes about two minutes.

1. Download and unzip

Your download link is in your welcome email (it stays live forever — grab it again anytime, from any device). Unzip the pack anywhere you like. Inside you'll find:

›README.md — the same instructions as this page, offline
›skills/ — one ready-to-use folder per skill (<skill-name>/SKILL.md): the production workflows (one-prompt film, direct-response ad, storyboard-from-script, character turnaround, edit-and-iterate, vision feedback loop) plus per-model prompting mastery and the craft/discipline skills

2. Install the skills

One command (recommended)

From any terminal:

npx -y @slatesvideo/cli install-skills --global

That installs every skill for Claude Code account-wide (drop --global to install into just the current project). Done.

No terminal? Copy the folders

Each skill in skills/ is a ready-to-use folder. Copy the ones you want into:

›Claude Code (this project): .claude/skills/ inside your project folder
›Claude Code (everywhere): ~/.claude/skills/ — on Windows that's C:\Users\<you>\.claude\skills\
›Claude Desktop / Cursor / other MCP clients: the skills also work as plain instructions — open any SKILL.md and paste its contents into your conversation (or your tool's rules/custom-instructions area) when you want that workflow

Restart your AI tool after installing — skills load at startup.

3. Use them

Open your AI tool and just ask. The skills trigger automatically when the request matches — you don't invoke them by name:

"Make me a 30-second UGC-style ad for my coffee brand in Slates."

"Build a faceless YouTube video from this script — storyboard it, generate the shots, and assemble the timeline."

The agent will open a Slates project, generate the assets, and assemble everything while you watch the app fill in live.

Troubleshooting

›The agent doesn't see Slates at all → your MCP connection isn't set up. Do Connect Claude & AI agents, then restart the AI tool.
›Skills don't trigger → make sure the skill folders (not the zip) are in the skills directory, and restart your AI tool. Skills load at startup.
›Generations fail with a credit error → check your balance in the Slates top bar. Every generation shows its credit price before it runs.
›Anything else → jump in the Discord or email hello@slates.video — we'll get you running.