Prompt collections, two P(doom) music videos, a style pack, a cartoon starter kit and a Claude Code skill: we checked the 8 repos people share for Opus 5.5 code-made videos, their licenses, what they need to render and what you can reuse.

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Manim popularity

Gid Score

43 /100

same scale as developer tools

GitHub stars

41.8K

3,214 forks · ManimCommunity/manim

Downloads

52K

PyPI, last 7 days, manim · +53.4% in 4 weeks

Used in agent projects

manim in our scan

Manim: downloads per weekPyPI, manim 51,755

Downloads from pypistats.org (without mirrors), stars and forks from GitHub, checked Oct 22, 2026. How the Gid Score is calculated.

Rules for your agent

- Manim (Video assembly and rendering). Community-maintained Python animation engine for programmatically creating explanatory math videos. Price: free; commercial use OK; no credit needed.
  Connect: PyPI manim.
  Rule: Keep the MIT copyright and permission notice (LICENSE) in any copies or substantial portions of the code you distribute.
  Rule: Install the community edition (manim on PyPI) and not 3b1b/manim; their instructions differ.
  Rule: Render videos locally with the manim CLI, e.g. manim -ql file.py SceneName.
  Rule: Cite Manim in research work when appropriate, as the README asks.
  License: https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/blob/HEAD/LICENSE (checked 2026-10-21; details: https://agentgid.com/assets/manim/)

Paste it into your prompt or AGENTS.md. It is built from the license and API terms below.

License

License	MIT License
Commercial use	Commercial use OK “to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software” github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/blob/HEAD/LICENSE
Credit	No credit needed “The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.” github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/blob/HEAD/LICENSE
Inside your app or game	Can ship inside your app Same clause as quoted for commercial use.
AI training	Not stated
Bots and bulk downloads	Not stated
Rules	Keep the MIT copyright and permission notice (LICENSE) in any copies or substantial portions of the code you distribute. Install the community edition (manim on PyPI) and not 3b1b/manim; their instructions differ. Render videos locally with the manim CLI, e.g. manim -ql file.py SceneName. Cite Manim in research work when appropriate, as the README asks.

Connect it to an agent

MCP server	None found
API	No public API: download by hand
PyPI	`pip install manim`
In AI-agent projects	`manim` is in 1 of 1,622 Python projects (0.1%) in our scan of repos set up for AI coding agents.
GitHub	ManimCommunity/manim

Pricing

Free	Free and open source under the MIT license
Paid from	—
Usage price	—
Good to know	Added automatically: used in 1 public AI-built projects we sampled; 41,746 GitHub stars. License read from the official pages.

Sources

Read on Oct 21, 2026: manim.community, github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/blob/HEAD/LICENSE, github.com/ManimCommunity/manim.

Not legal advice. Check the license page before you ship.

Alternatives to Manim

All video assembly and rendering

Source	Price	License	Agent access
HyperFrames Open-source framework that renders HTML, CSS, media and seekable animations into deterministic MP4 videos, with CLI and AI agent skills. agent.md	Free	Commercial OK No credit	npm `hyperframes`
OpenMontage Open-source agentic video production system that plans, generates and assembles videos locally using your own AI agent and provider accounts agent.md	Free	Commercial: conditions Credit varies	Download
Remotion Make videos programmatically in React; free for individuals and companies of up to 3 employees. agent.md	Free tier · from $25/mo	Commercial: conditions	Download
MoviePy MIT Python library for video editing that wraps FFmpeg. agent.md	Free	Commercial OK	Download
AutoClip Desktop app that cuts long podcasts, interviews and lessons into short clips with subtitles, covers and post copy. agent.md	Free	Commercial OK No credit	Download
FunClip Transcribes a video with FunASR, then cuts it by the words or speakers you pick from the transcript, with subtitles; local Gradio UI. agent.md	Free	Commercial OK No credit	Download
AutoSubs On-device subtitle generation with speaker labels that sends captions straight into DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro and After Effects. agent.md	Free	Commercial OK No credit	Download
Diffusion Studio Open-source video editor that coding agents can drive through MCP and a CLI to cut, animate, caption, generate and render video. agent.md	Free tier · from $20/mo	Commercial OK No credit	MCP API

Agents that do the same job

video-use (video editing agent skill, open source, 29.6K GitHub stars) · Pixelle-Video (short-video generation engine, open source, 29.3K GitHub stars) · Watch (agent skill, open source, 19.1K GitHub stars) · Toonflow (AI video creation platform, open source, 19K GitHub stars) · /brag (agent skill, open source, 17.7K GitHub stars) · Hypit (agent, 24.9K GitHub stars) · Huobao Drama (AI short-drama generator, 16.5K GitHub stars) · Palmier Pro (AI video editor, 14.6K GitHub stars)

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