Skill catalog
A skill is a playbook Claude follows for one task family — how to rig a comp to data, how to write an expression, how to debug why a render looks wrong — not a plugin you install separately. Every skill below installs automatically with Valet (macOS), landing in your own ~/.claude/skills— and Valet never overwrites a skill you’ve edited yourself. See what the agent itself needs, or see these skills in action across the three agent workflows.
Lets Claude drive the DataDriver panel directly — rigging layers to data columns, loading data sources, applying layouts, and running batch operations without you clicking through the UI yourself.
"Rig the Lower Third comp to the leaderboard.csv columns and load the first 10 rows."
Lets Claude write After Effects expressions from a plain-language description and verify them against the curve you actually want before committing them to a layer.
"Make this layer wiggle its position by 20px whenever the audio track is above -12dB."
Lets Claude learn an existing After Effects comp and turn it into a reusable, driven component in your component library.
"Decompile the Intro Card comp into a component so I can reuse it in the new season."
Lets Claude decide which properties of a just-captured component should become drivable slots, so the component can be rigged to data later.
"This captured Scoreboard component has 12 properties — which of them should be drivable slots?"
Lets Claude see what is actually happening inside your project — rendering frames, snapshotting comp state, and evaluating expressions — and verify a fix before claiming it worked, instead of guessing from a description of the problem.
"Render frame 90 of the Lower Third comp and tell me why the text looks clipped."
Lets Claude wire a comp to a CSV or spreadsheet from the Valet panel — proposing the layer → column mapping, applying the rigs after one approval, and rendering row 1 to prove they landed.
"Wire this comp to leaderboard.csv and show me row 1."
Lets Claude save a comp as a reusable component with a thumbnail and reviewed slots, browse your library from the panel, and apply a saved component into a new project.
"Save this lower-third as a component, then apply it to the new season's intro."
Lets Claude build a gray-box After Effects comp from a sketch, whiteboard photo or layout image, then check its own work by rendering the result.
"Build a comp from this storyboard frame — 1920×1080, gray boxes are fine."
Lets Claude design motion for a comp and apply it — reading what is there, choosing a choreography, and landing it as approval cards you can undo in one step.
"Animate this comp — bring the storyboard to life, four seconds, calm."
Lets Claude critique a comp's motion like a director — ranking the timing and easing tells that read as amateur — and offer fix cards you can approve one by one.
"Why does this comp feel cheap? Critique the motion and propose fixes."
Lets Claude drive the CameraOp panel from the Valet chat — check a camera tour that exists and offer each fix as an approval card, turn "tighter" or "slower" into one refine card, or run a tour over your DataDriver rows from a single Run Tour card. Baking stays yours: Valet points you at the Bake button and tells you the wait.
"Make a camera tour of these cards — a Museum walk, calm."