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# 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](https://slates.video/docs/connect-claude) 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:

```bash
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](https://slates.video/docs/connect-claude), 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](https://discord.gg/d9qnuM2rjv) or email [hello@slates.video](mailto:hello@slates.video) — we'll get you running.