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What you can do with Khan Explainer

A Claude Code skill that turns a written description into a Khan Academy style explainer video, with a pen drawing on a board while a voice explains, rendered locally to MP4.

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What do you want to do?

4 use cases

  • Make a Khan-style explainer video from one sentence

    Describe a topic to Claude Code and get a drawn-and-narrated MP4 rendered on your Mac.

    View prompt
    Using the khan-explainer skill in ~/.claude/skills/khan-explainer, write a 30-second Khan-style explainer scene about <topic> and render it to an MP4. Confirm the render prints a contact sheet path and that the MP4 plays with narration and drawing in sync.

  • Draw arrows and steps over screenshots for a product tutorial

    Turn product screenshots into a narrated tutorial with arrows, circles and numbered steps.

    View prompt
    Using the khan-explainer skill, build a draw-over-UI tutorial from the screenshots in <screenshot folder> that shows a new user how to <task>. Expected output is a tutorial MP4 with arrows and numbered steps drawn over the screenshots. Verify with the contact sheet that every step points at the correct part of the screen.

  • Cut a YouTube video or podcast into vertical shorts

    Clip the best moments of a long video into vertical shorts with the speaker's own voice.

    View prompt
    Using the khan-explainer clip pipeline, find the strongest moments in <video URL> and render vertical shorts in light and dark themes. Expected output is a set of vertical MP4 clips with the speaker's audio. Verify that each clip's audio and board drawing stay in sync using the contact sheet.

  • Make a lesson board in Arabic, Urdu, Hebrew or another language

    Render a board where the writing runs right to left or left to right in many scripts.

    View prompt
    Using the khan-explainer skill, create a lesson in <language> with the scene set to lang <language code> and render it to an MP4. Expected output is a narrated board MP4 with correct writing direction. Verify with the contact sheet that the text reads in the right direction and is not clipped.

How to use Khan Explainer

  1. Check you have what it needs: macOS; Node 20 or newer; ffmpeg (install with brew install ffmpeg).
  2. Open haiderfarooq3/khan-explainer on GitHub and read the README and license.
  3. Install ffmpeg on macOS with brew install ffmpeg.
  4. Clone the skill into Claude Code's skills folder with git clone https://github.com/haiderfarooq3/khan-explainer ~/.claude/skills/khan-explainer.
  5. Install dependencies with cd ~/.claude/skills/khan-explainer/scripts && npm install && npx playwright install chromium.
  6. Ask Claude Code: Make a 30-second Khan-style explainer on <topic>.

These steps come from our top use case, Make a Khan-style explainer video from one sentence, which also has a copy-paste agent prompt.

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About this repo

Requirements

  • macOS
  • Node 20 or newer
  • ffmpeg (install with brew install ffmpeg)
  • Claude Code, since the repo installs as a Claude Code skill
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Questions about Khan Explainer

What is Khan Explainer?

A Claude Code skill that turns a written description into a Khan Academy style explainer video, with a pen drawing on a board while a voice explains, rendered locally to MP4. It is an open-source project on GitHub: https://github.com/haiderfarooq3/khan-explainer.

Who is Khan Explainer for?

Built for macOS users who work with Claude Code and want free, local explainer or tutorial videos without API keys.

What can I do with Khan Explainer?

4 use cases so far, for example: Make a Khan-style explainer video from one sentence; Draw arrows and steps over screenshots for a product tutorial; Cut a YouTube video or podcast into vertical shorts. Each has steps and a copy-paste agent prompt.

What do I need to run Khan Explainer?

macOS; Node 20 or newer; ffmpeg (install with brew install ffmpeg); Claude Code, since the repo installs as a Claude Code skill.

What are alternatives to Khan Explainer?

Other hot AI repos in Content: Voice Studio, Anatomy, Comfy UI, Hyperframes, Earshot.

Is Khan Explainer safe to run?

Deduped does not own, audit or vouch for it. Read the README and license, run it on your own systems first and review every command before you run it.