Generate AI Marketing Videos From Claude Code: The Arcads Skill Pack

What this skill pack does

The Arcads skill pack connects Claude Code to the Arcads AI creative platform — a stack of video and image generation models purpose-built for marketing ads. From inside your Claude Code session, you can generate UGC-style product videos, premium product reveals, studio lookbooks, feature walkthrough demos, and static Meta image ads without leaving the agent.

The agent handles API calls, polling, prompt engineering, file organization, and cost confirmation.

Getting started

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# Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/krusemediallc/arcads-claude-code.git
cd arcads-claude-code

# Run setup (installs deps, saves your Arcads API key, verifies connection)
./scripts/setup.sh

Open the folder in Claude Code. A

SessionStart

.env

MASTER_CONTEXT.md

The model stack

• Seedance 2.0 — flagship video model. 4–15s clips, native audio, image-to-video or video-to-video, reference images, multiple shot styles.
• Sora 2 — longer-form cinematic content via OpenAI's model
• Veo 3.1 — Google's model, strong on photorealistic motion and product shots
• Kling 3.0 — smooth motion, good for lifestyle and fashion content
• Grok Video — variety; use when other models don't fit the aesthetic
• Nano Banana 2 / Pro / Edit — short-form, fast-turnaround and edit-from-existing-asset workflows
• ChatGPT Image 2 — static image ads, stdlib-only
• OmniHuman / Audio-driven — avatar and talking-head formats for spokesperson-style ads

Five Seedance 2.0 prompt formulas

The skill ships with five prompt formulas tuned for specific ad types:

• UGC selfie-style product review —
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  "Make a 12-second Seedance UGC video — woman in a kitchen, holding the product, says she stopped buying [competitor]"

• Premium product reveal (no person) —
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  "Premium reveal of [product] — dark void, text narrative, hero rotation"

• Product hero with elemental effects —
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  "Seedance product hero — water splash, mist, slow rotation"

• Studio lookbook with voiceover —
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  "Studio lookbook of [product] — multi-look, polished, with voiceover script"

• Feature walkthrough demo —
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  "Seedance feature walkthrough — fast-paced, show off [features]"

Static image ads

Beyond video, the skill pack includes a 37-template static Meta image-ad library plus Pixar-style and claymation animated ad pipelines. The image-ad generators (

chatgpt-image-ad

nano-banana-image-ad

image-ad-clone

Prerequisites by workflow

• Python 3.10+ — required for everything
• ffmpeg — Pixar-style ad, claymation, caption-video:
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  brew install ffmpeg

• jq — several bash scripts:
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  brew install jq

• Node.js — caption burn-in:
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  brew install node

• whisper — caption transcription:
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  pip install openai-whisper

Frequently asked questions

Do I need an Arcads account? Yes. The skill calls the Arcads external API.

./scripts/setup.sh

.env

How does cost confirmation work? The agent prompts for confirmation before any generation workflow. Video generation cost varies by model, duration, and resolution — the skill shows estimated cost before executing.

Can I use this in Cursor as well as Claude Code? Yes. The same skills are exposed at

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