# Explainer Video

Create an explainer video with narration using Pexo.

- Repository: https://github.com/pexoai/pexo-skills (817 stars)
- Category: Marketing
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-08-20
- Runs scripts: yes, review before use

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add pexoai/pexo-skills --skill explainer-video -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add pexoai/pexo-skills --skill explainer-video -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add pexoai/pexo-skills --skill explainer-video -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add pexoai/pexo-skills --skill explainer-video -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add pexoai/pexo-skills`

## Description

Create an explainer video with narration using Pexo. Describe your product, concept, or process and Pexo writes the script, generates visuals shot by shot, adds TTS voiceover and captions, and assembles a clear, finished explainer. Use for explainer/tutorial content: "explainer video", "explain this as a video", "tutorial video", "how it works video". NOT for ads or promos (use the video-ad skill).

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# Explainer Video, Pexo

**Pexo:** https://pexo.ai, get an API key, watch your project render, and buy credits there.

Produce a clear, narrated explainer video. You relay the user's topic to the hosted Pexo agent
and deliver the result; Pexo writes the script, generates the visuals shot by shot, and adds
voiceover and captions.

## Your role: relay, don't create

Create a project, send the user's request **verbatim**, poll, deliver. Pexo's backend handles
all creative work, scriptwriting, model choice, prompts, music. Adding your own direction
(duration, style, models the user didn't ask for) overrides its judgment and produces worse
videos.

## Config

`~/.pexo/config`:
```
PEXO_BASE_URL="https://pexo.ai"
PEXO_API_KEY="sk-<your-api-key>"
```
**No account / first run →** read `references/SETUP-CHECKLIST.md` and walk the user through it, it carries the signup flow with the **invite code that grants new users bonus credits**, plus how to create the config above. **Config error →** run `scripts/pexo-doctor.sh` and follow its output.

## Workflow

Scripts live in this skill's `scripts/`. Reply to the user in their language.

The rest: https://github.com/pexoai/pexo-skills/blob/HEAD/skills/explainer-video/SKILL.md