cinecode: a free Claude Code / Cursor skill that writes, renders and scores films in code

What it does, per the README. You give one sentence; the agent asks a few questions with recommended answers, shows a second-by-second beat plan and a director card, then renders two scenes as stills for your approval before building the rest. Quick mode puts a film of up to about three minutes in one self-contained film.html; Film mode handles 10+ minute documentaries and explainers in approved stages with research, archive images and layered sound.

What you can make. Short films in 3D, 2D, paint, ink, paper, clay or pixel looks; ads with 9:16, 1:1 and 16:9 versions and safe areas; vertical explainers; music videos cut to your song's measured beat grid; edits of your own talking-head or screen footage from a word-timed transcript (needs Whisper). There is also a mode that measures a reference video's pacing, cuts and colour and makes a new film on that form, never from its frames.

Under the hood. Scenes are functions of time, sound is synthesized with Web Audio rendered offline, and the README lists a named camera vocabulary (dolly in, orbit, rack focus, whip pan and so on) with default durations and easing. Narration is optional and uses your own Gemini key, ElevenLabs, or a free Turkish voice. Each draft gets automatic checks plus an independent viewer pass by a helper agent.

The catch. It runs on your agent subscription, so the cost is tokens and time. One reviewer on X estimated 100 to 250 agent steps for a 30 to 60 second film; we have not measured that ourselves. Code-rendered pictures suit explainers, title work and stylized shorts better than photoreal shots.

Signals: @RoundtableSpace post on Nov 7 (about 224 likes and 312 bookmarks), steady creator demos in Turkish, Chinese and English, and fast star growth. It was not on GitHub Trending when we checked, so we are not flagging it hot.

Our take: it sits next to HyperFrames, Remotion and claude-motion as a code-first path, with more opinion about story and sound than most. Try a 30-second Quick mode piece first, as the creator himself suggests, to see how much usage a film eats before committing to Film mode.