History, I Guess
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History, I Guess
Make a fast, deadpan "history of anything, i guess" video with Claude: a spinning NASA globe, big misprinted text, sung jingles, all drawn in code.
Download the skillhistory-i-guess.zip · 1.2 MBFree, MIT licence. Works on Windows, Mac and Linux.
Install in 4 steps
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Unzip it. Inside history-i-guess-kit is a folder called history-i-guess (the one with SKILL.md). Move that folder into your Claude Code skills folder:
Mac / Linux~/.claude/skills/Windows%USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\ - 2
Make an empty folder for your video and open Claude Code in it.
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Ask for a video:
Or any thing you like, or say "you pick". The first run installs the free tools by itself.make a history of coffee, i guess video - 4
Check the script and the three test scenes, then say go. Claude draws every scene, renders it on your CPU and checks it.
What it makes
History of the internet, i guess. 70 seconds, made with this skill. The voice in this one was recorded with ElevenLabs; the skill itself uses a free voice that runs on your computer, or your own recording.
- A real-looking spinning planet (NASA's public-domain Earth maps) that dives to every place the story goes
- Jokes on the map: labels, glowing arcs between cities, cables on the sea floor, lights coming on region by region
- Big lowercase text in the picture, one phrase at a time, in misprinted colour, emboss, neon and LED styles
- 1 to 3 sung jingles over a tiny synthesised band
- Every fact checked first, with a sources file
- A 1080x1920 master for Shorts, Reels and TikTok, plus a 7:8 cut for X under 10 MB
You need
- A Claude subscription (Claude Code comes with Pro and Max)
- Python 3.10 or newer
- Any normal computer. No graphics card, no API keys (about 550 MB of free tools, installed once)
Time
About 45 to 90 minutes for a 20 to 30 second video, almost all of it Claude's work. A 70-second one takes 2.5 to 4 hours.
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