Videos Made in Code With Opus 5.5: 8 Popular GitHub Repos, Checked
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.
Since Claude Opus 5.5 came out in late September 2026, the same handful of GitHub repositories keeps coming back in lists on X: collections of videos people made by asking Opus 5.5 to write the animation as code, the source of two music videos for the song "I'm Upping My P(doom)", a pack of motion-design styles, a cartoon starter kit and a Claude Code skill that directs short films.
We checked eight of them against GitHub's API and their own READMEs on October 22, 2026: what each one is, which license it carries, what you need to render its videos and what you can reuse. Only one of the eight is a tool you install. Two have no license at all.
An earlier list with six of these repos, by @RodmanAi on X (October 18, 2026)
How fast they grew
All eight repositories were created between September 22 and October 2, 2026. The list above gave star counts on October 18; four days later several had grown several times over:
What each repo is
| Repo | What it is | License | What you can reuse |
|---|---|---|---|
| awesome-opus5-5-videos | A collection of videos people made with Opus 5.5, each with the prompt the creator shared; its README counts 703 prompts, 418 of them with a remake on the Skillry site | MIT | The prompt files and the list; every entry links to the creator's own post |
| lemo-opuscar | A Claude Code skill and plugin: pick a film style, describe your story, the agent writes, voices, scores and renders the film. The README lists 59 styles | MIT for code and docs; the demo films CC BY 4.0 | The skill itself; films you make with it are yours, "no credit needed" per its README |
| pdoom-video | The full project of a karaoke-style music video: three.js renderer, lyric timing tools, scenes | MIT for the code | The engine and scene code; the song and lyrics are not covered by the license |
| PDoomVideo | Another music video for the same song, painted with p5.js and p5.brush; its README says everything in it was generated by the model | None | Nothing without the author's permission: with no license, the default copyright applies |
| mg-styles-15 | Fifteen 10-second motion-design films, one style each, with the full prompt and source of every film | MIT | Prompts and source of all 15 films |
| ClaudeAnimationBase | A starter kit for hand-painted cartoon animation in p5.js, built from the PDoomVideo code, with a character model sheet and an animation guide for the agent | MIT | The kit, the guide and the renderer |
| awesome-claude-5-5-videos | A source-linked directory of videos made with Claude 5.5 models, with research notes; its README counts 424 source posts as of October 11, 301 of them Opus | CC BY 4.0 for its own writing | The notes and data with credit; linked works belong to their creators |
| opus-video-prompts | Chinese collection of copy-ready prompts from the first week: its README counts 18 prompts and 54 cases | None | Read it; copying needs the author's permission |
Only one is a tool
Six of the eight are something to learn from: collections and finished projects. ClaudeAnimationBase is a starting point you clone. lemo-opuscar is the one you install into Claude Code:
claude plugin marketplace add lemomo-ai/lemo-opuscar
claude plugin install lemo-opuscar@lemolab
Its README warns that the styles are tuned for Opus 5.5 and other models may not reproduce them. It needs Node 20+, ffmpeg and Python 3.11+, and the agent installs the rest. It is now in our Agent Skills catalog. Its own license section names three voice tracks in its demo films that are not under CC BY 4.0, so if you reuse the demos, read that section first.
How these videos are made
Opus 5.5 does not output a video file. In every repo here the video is a program: a web page that draws the frame for any moment of the timeline, a headless browser that captures every frame, and ffmpeg that joins the frames with the soundtrack.
That is why they all ask for the same tools: Node.js (or bun), Google Chrome and ffmpeg, plus Python for audio work in mg-styles-15 and lemo-opuscar. Rendering is not instant. The pdoom-video README reports that its 4K render of the whole song takes about 57 minutes on an M5 Pro, with memory peaking at about 23 GB, and that the 1080p export is "not real time" either. ClaudeAnimationBase warns that without a dedicated GPU its watercolour fills render in seconds per frame.
The same approach is what the frameworks in our catalog package for you: HyperFrames renders HTML, CSS and animations into MP4 and ships as a Claude Code plugin, Remotion does it with React components, Manim with Python, and FFmpeg does the final encode for all of them. If you want a finished setup rather than a pile of prompts, our short-video kit lists the parts and their licenses.
What to watch for
- No license means no permission. PDoomVideo and opus-video-prompts have no license file, so their code and text stay under the author's copyright: study them, but do not copy them into your project.
- The song is not open. Both P(doom) videos use a song made by other people. pdoom-video's README says plainly that the song and lyrics are not covered by its MIT license.
- Prompts link out. The two awesome lists point to the creators' original posts; the videos themselves belong to those creators. awesome-opus5-5-videos sends its "watch all" link to Skillry, a separate site.
- Model-specific. The prompts and styles were written for Opus 5.5. lemo-opuscar says so outright; expect weaker results from smaller models.
Where to start
If you want to make a video today, install lemo-opuscar and pick a style, or clone ClaudeAnimationBase and ask your agent to read its animation guide first. If you want to learn how good code-made video is built, read the pdoom-video README and its engine notes: it documents motion blur, render workers and timing data in more detail than any other repo here. For more motion-design building blocks, see our earlier check of 20 open-source repos for a motion design studio.
Agents mentioned in this guide
| # | Agent | Gid Score | Downloads 7d | 7d | 30d | Stars | Latest release | ||||
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| 2 |
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81 | 6.4M | down 23.0% | down 27.2% | 153K+279/day | 2.1.309yesterday | ||||
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