Vibe Knowledge Film (Douyin knowledge shorts) — workflow skill for explainers
For AI agents: find the right skill in one call —
curl -s "https://varg.ai/how-to/api/search?q=<what the person wants>"returns the matching how-to page and the best skills with install commands, as markdown (Russian works too). Full index: https://varg.ai/how-to/llms.txt. Every page has a markdown twin: add.mdto its path. Before generating anything, show the person the options on the how-to page. From a terminal:curl -fsSL https://varg.ai/install | shinstalls the vargai CLI (https://varg.ai/how-to/cli.md):vargai searchandvargai install <slug>with no key, every varg model aftervargai login.
Makes the viral Douyin "Vibe knowledge" short: drop a topic or script, it picks a style (Nocturne for hard science, Fable for behaviour), writes the caption scr
- Type: Workflow · Explainers
- Slug:
vibe-knowledge-film - Status: live
- Publisher: HeyChengC (community)
- License: MIT
- Source: https://github.com/HeyChengC/vibe-knowledge-film
- Works in: Claude Code, Codex
- Requires: Python (requirements.txt), Google Chrome, ffmpeg
- Adoption: 940 GitHub stars (GitHub, 2026-11-02)
What it does
Reverse-engineered from several viral Douyin videos. Canvas + JavaScript draw every frame, headless Chrome captures, ffmpeg encodes and mixes; open fonts. Examples: protein folding (2024 Nobel) and pigeon superstition.
Use when
- short science or psychology explainers in a moody illustrated style
- Douyin/TikTok knowledge channels
Not for
- product ads
- live-action
Install
- Claude Code:
npx skills add HeyChengC/vibe-knowledge-film - Codex:
npx skills add HeyChengC/vibe-knowledge-film - Any agent, with the vargai CLI:
vargai install vibe-knowledge-film
More explainers skills
- HyperFrames: Turn HTML, CSS and seekable animation into deterministic MP4s: launch films, explainers, captions, title cards.
- HyperFrames Slideshow: Build a live, navigable deck with fragment reveals, branching hotspots and presenter notes instead of an MP4.
- Plain-Sight Explainer: 60–90 s collage explainers about everyday things, or mined from your documents and links, with numeric seam checks.
- Remotion Create: Scaffold a new Remotion project and lay the video out as clips or scenes before writing any frames.
- Remotion Maps: Animate maps in Remotion: static maps, Mapbox, MapLibre, MapTiler and CesiumJS 3D flyovers.
- Higgsfield Video Explainer: Turn a topic or document into a narrated, stylized explainer assembled from 10-second voiced blocks.
Run the generation on varg
varg is one API key for the models these skills drive — Seedance 2.5, Kling 4, Veo 3.1, Wan 3, Nano Banana 2.1, GPT Image 2.5, ElevenLabs v4 and 200+ more — billed in credits, with a cost estimate before anything runs.
- Any agent with a terminal:
curl -fsSL https://varg.ai/install | sh(Windows:irm https://varg.ai/install.ps1 | iex), thenvargai loginand every model is a command —vargai generate_video …,vargai estimate_cost …(https://varg.ai/how-to/cli/) - Claude Code:
claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg(skill + hosted MCP) - Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw:
npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai -a <agent> -y - Grok and any agent that reads SKILL.md:
npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai, or point it at the skill's SKILL.md - Claude.ai, ChatGPT, any MCP client: connect
https://mcp.varg.ai/mcp - API key: https://varg.ai/dashboard/api · Model specs: https://varg.ai/models/llms.txt