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Update Director

A weekly, monthly or yearly update in 30–60 seconds: the numbers against last period, one message, with music.

Update Director: its example films and styles →

Paste into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or any agent that supports skills.

Needs: Node.js 22+, FFmpeg, Chrome. No API keys.

Install prompt

Read https://claude-motion.com/skills/update-director/install.md and follow it to install the "update-director" skill, then make a first video with it.

Paste into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or any agent that supports skills.

Example prompt

Use the update-director skill to make a 45-second monthly update from this analytics export, against last month.

Style prompt (Claude Motion or Opus 5.5)

Make a 45-second 16:9 update for [the meeting, e.g for [who will watch, e.g. the team at our next meeting]. our monthly all-hands] on [the period], against [last period]. Use only the numbers in the attached [export or sheet], each shown next to last period's number, and the source and date on screen. End on the one message and its number, held for 3 seconds.

Open on the period, show the three numbers that matter one at a time to scale, land the one sentence they support on the music's lift, and end on what's next in my words.

Numbers: [three metrics]
What's next: [your words]

Nothing to install: paste this into Claude Motion (Team or Enterprise) or give it to Opus 5.5 for a similar look. The result changes from run to run; the skill works from your own material and renders on your computer.

Directs the update film a meeting needs. Your agent reads your data for two periods (a spreadsheet, an analytics export, a repository's public activity), picks the one message the numbers support, shows three or four numbers to scale against last period with their sources and the date pulled, and says what is next only in your words. For weekly updates, all-hands recaps, board updates and a year in review. Every number points to its query or file. Narrated with your recording, your ElevenLabs or HeyGen voice, or a free synthetic voice, and scored under the voice.

Good fit for

A weekly or monthly update for the team
An all-hands recap or a year in review

Not for

One data story with no periods to compare
Numbers you cannot trace to a source

Engine: Motion Skills
Formats: 16:9 · 9:16 · 1:1
Length: 15–60s
Needs: Node.js 22+, FFmpeg, Chrome. No API keys.

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What's included

SKILL.md: step-by-step instructions your agent follows
Reference notes for the agent
Worked examples
LICENSE.md and NOTICE.md with full credits

Last checked Oct 26, 2026 · ✓ PassedFull end-to-end local render

How we curate and test →

Built-in styles: data story, modular grid, kinetic type. Continues a Starter Director trial project. Needs Node 22+, FFmpeg and Chrome; the engine runs through npx.

Credits

Motion Skillsmotion-skills engine and director method
facundoexposito/plan-to-videodecision-brief structure(MIT)

Written by Motion Skills for the motion-skills engine; the projects it learned from are listed above.