Introduce yourself & share your goal 🏆 We’d love to get to know you! - 🌍 Where are you from? - 🎯 What’s one goal you’re working toward? - 🎮 What do you do for fun? Drop your answers in the comments ⬇️ --- Once you've said hi, here's how to get the most out of this community. Two things to do in your first 24 hours: 1️⃣ Head to YouTube Resources and grab whatever's relevant to what you're working on. Every video Marcus publishes drops in there with the companion files. 2️⃣ Post in Show Your Build the moment you start something. Feedback before you ship beats feedback after. That's where most of the community lives. What's where: - Questions ❓: stuck on anything, drop it here. We check daily. - Wins 🥇: shipped something or got a result, post it. Real numbers welcome. - Show Your Build 🚧: WIP critique. The most active part of the community. - Job Board 💰: hire help here, find work here. - General discussion 💬: open chat, AI news takes, what you're working on. What's coming: Automators+ is coming soon. Drop a 🚀 in the comments to get first access when it opens. Let's build.

Sonnet 5.5 is half the price of Opus 5.5 per token. So is Opus worth paying more for motion graphics? I gave both models the same three prompts, one shot each at medium effort. Then I showed the films side by side as A and B before revealing which model made which and what each one cost. The three rounds: Round 1, claymation reel: A reel built from the products and characters in my claymation ads. Opus cost $2.66 and took 13m 54s. Sonnet cost $1.65 and took 19m 38s. I picked Sonnet. Round 2, SCORCH hot sauce ad: A 15-second ad that has to hook a YouTube viewer. Opus cost $5.36 and took 26m 30s. Sonnet cost $0.98 and took 13m 48s. I picked Opus. Round 3, Nimbo app launch: A launch film for an app I made up, in the style of three reference videos. Opus cost $6.89 and took 20m 41s. Sonnet cost $1.46 and took 12m 17s. I picked Sonnet. On average Opus cost $4.97 a film and Sonnet $1.36. Those are the Claude bills, read from Claude Code's own session logs. The Motion Graphics Starter Kit: Everything I use to make these is in one skill. Give it one line or a full brief with your logos and product shots. You get back a finished MP4 with music and sound effects cut to the beat, checked frame by frame before Claude calls it done. It runs on HyperFrames, HeyGen's free engine. Generated music (fal.ai) and generated scenes (Higgsfield) are optional. Without them every film is built in code, for free. Send this prompt to Claude Code **copy below this line** I'm giving you a skill called Motion Graphics Starter Kit. Get the files with: git clone https://github.com/automatorsplus/motion-graphics-starter-kit-skill Follow the README to set it up. Recommend how it would best apply to our setup in plain language, and ask me a few questions to clarify my intent before you install it.

Anthropic just let us mod Claude Code. A mod changes what you see and how Claude Code behaves: panes, buttons and live info right above the prompt. You don't write the code yourself. You describe what you want and Claude builds it. In this video I show five I built. All five are below for you to install. The five: Chomp: A maze game opens beside the chat once Claude has been working for 20 seconds. A line above the maze shows what Claude is doing. The game pauses when it's done. Type /chomp to open it any time. Cache Clock: One line above the prompt: minutes left before your cache goes cold, what your next message would cost if it does, your context, your five-hour and weekly limits and the session cost. Handoff makes Claude write a note so a fresh chat picks up where you left off. Command Centre: Type /centre. Press Find my prompts and it reads your recent sessions, finds the prompts you repeat most and turns them into one-press buttons. The Skills tab puts every skill and command one press away. Prompt Coach: Type /coach and your prompt. It scores it out of 10 on goal, context and done, tells you what's missing and gives you a better version to send or edit. Model Showdown: Type /versus and a question. It goes to Haiku, Sonnet and Opus at once and shows the answers side by side with time, tokens and cost. Use this one sends the answer you pick into your chat. Before you install: You need Claude Code v2.1.287 or later in the terminal, or the Code tab of the Claude Desktop app on v2.1.286 or later. Type /status to check. Mods run in VS Code, but nothing shows in its chat panel. Install in your terminal, two lines per mod: claude plugin marketplace add automatorsplus/chomp-mod claude plugin install chomp@chomp-mod claude plugin marketplace add automatorsplus/cache-clock-mod claude plugin install cache-clock@cache-clock-mod claude plugin marketplace add automatorsplus/command-centre-mod claude plugin install command-centre@command-centre-mod claude plugin marketplace add automatorsplus/prompt-coach-mod