Codex: Build Your Full AI Marketing Team (Agents + Skills)
By Riley Brown
Summary
Topics Covered
- Ground AI In Your Taste, Not Its Defaults
- Iterate A Skill, Then Automate It Forever
- Sub-Agents Parallelize The Whole Workflow
- Mini-Apps Bridge Humans And AI Agents
- The Final 10% Is Where Value Lives
Full Transcript
Yesterday, I was working on my laptop, and I realized that 95% of the tasks that I do on my computer for content and
marketing is inside Codex. And Codex is OpenAI's brand-new super app. And the
reason I'm able to use AI agents for almost all of my marketing tasks is because I've built a layer of skills around Codex. These are repeatable
around Codex. These are repeatable workflows that I use every single day to help me go from 1.5 million followers to hopefully 10 million followers by the
end of next year. In this video, I'm going to walk through the top seven plugins and skills that I use every single day inside Codex. And if you are
a Claude co-work or Claude code user, these skills will work in the exact same way, and you can use them, and I guarantee you you will get value from this video. You are going to learn a
this video. You are going to learn a marketing skill that will impact your business or your personal brand. Let's
not waste any more time. Let's dive into the video.
Okay. So, today we're going to be talking about the best skills that I use as a creator and marketer. And again,
this works inside Claude code and Codex.
So, before we dive into the seven skills that I use basically every single day for marketing, I do want to discuss the basics of Codex. And I also want to talk
about what a skill is. All right. So,
this right here is Codex. And Codex is somewhat similar to Claude desktop app, which has chat, co-work, and Claude code. The reason I use Codex is they
code. The reason I use Codex is they basically combined all of them into one experience, and it's just Codex. And on
Codex, you can generate slide decks, you can also generate spreadsheets, and you can work directly in the spreadsheet.
You can generate full documents, and you can also generate any type of app or webpage. When you use Codex, you're
webpage. When you use Codex, you're basically prompting an AI agent, and you can select your model, and this AI model has full control over your computer. It
can edit, delete, and create files on your computer. Basic overview of how the
your computer. Basic overview of how the app is kind of organized visually. You
have your agent chats here on the left side. Up top on the left, you have kind
side. Up top on the left, you have kind of your different features. In this
middle column, you have your agent conversation, and then you have your preview. And this will be a preview of
preview. And this will be a preview of an app if you ask for an app. It'll be a preview of a browser if you ask to navigate to a certain website. It'll be
a preview of a spreadsheet if you ask it to create a spreadsheet. And it will be a preview of a presentation if you ask for a PowerPoint. And so, that's what makes this a super app is depending on
the task, it'll open up a preview, and this preview is very dynamic. Can be
many different things. And so, of course, you can create many type of documents. You can create any type of
documents. You can create any type of app. They have skills and plugins, which
app. They have skills and plugins, which we're going to be talking about today.
This is going to be the most important part. And today, we'll also touch on
part. And today, we'll also touch on automations because automations can actually be used with skills and plugins. They kind of go together
plugins. They kind of go together because you can see here, this is actually a good example of an automation that I've created, and this Google Calendar and this Gmail are plugins. And
so, we're going to talk about that today. And the final thing I will say
today. And the final thing I will say about super apps is they're getting better at controlling your computer.
They have computer use, which allows it to fully control your computer. And it
also has browser use. And so, remember we talked about this in-app browser here. The agent can actually control
here. The agent can actually control your browser, and you can see the mouse moving around controlling your browser.
Every single month that goes by, it'll get better and better at controlling your browser. And so, while you're using
your browser. And so, while you're using Codex, there's two commands that you should be aware of when using skills.
The first one is a skill. So, if you want to use a skill that you've already created, you can press slash, and we can you can see here I can type YouTube researcher skill, I can use the
Excalidraw diagram skill, I can use the Remotion best practices skill. These are
all skills that I've added in the past.
I can also use plugins by pressing the at sign and here we can use computer use which is a plugin, I can use Gmail which is a plugin, I can use calendar which is
indeed a plugin. In order to access plugins and skills, go up to the top left and click plugins. And so you can think of plugins as bundles of skills
and abilities and you can think of skills as instruction files for an AI agent. Just to show you an example, I
agent. Just to show you an example, I use Vercel very often to deploy the apps that I create inside Codex on the internet so I can send them to other people. If you click on the Vercel
people. If you click on the Vercel plugin, you'll see that this includes many skills. You can see 1 2 3, all of
many skills. You can see 1 2 3, all of these different things are skills. So
these are all bundled together into a plugin and when you go on Codex, if you were to type in @Vercel, this points to the plugin and so it'll usually understand what you mean and
it'll actually choose the right skill to use. And then I can also do {slash}
use. And then I can also do {slash} Vercel and if I wanted to tag a specific skill within the plugin, I could go to Vercel sandbox and that would actually
spin up one of the Vercel sandboxes. But
again, the at sign allows you to at mention a plugin and the {slash} symbol allows you to access a specific skill.
Okay, so now that you have some of the context and you understand what Codex is and how it's a kind of a super app that can use plugins and skills, let's dive into these seven skills. And these are
going to be a mix of plugins and skills and all of these skills are going to be available if you go to chorus.com/skills
by the time this video is done, you can find By the time this video is done, you can find all of your skills here, and in one click, you can use this on Codex, you can use it in Claude code, or you
can use it directly inside Chorus. All
right, so now let's dive into skill number one for content creation inside Codex. All right, so skill number one
Codex. All right, so skill number one and skill number two have to do with a concept called grounding. So, what
grounding is is basically connecting your AI agent to a useful reference point. And so, if you've used ChatGPT
point. And so, if you've used ChatGPT before and you ask it to create content or come up with an outline for a YouTube video or ask it for a short-form script,
it's not grounded in anything useful for you. If you think about it, OpenAI is a
you. If you think about it, OpenAI is a company and they train their model on a vast amount of data, and when you ask it to create a script for Instagram or
TikTok, it's they are the ones who train the model, and they use reinforcement learning, and they basically look at the outputs and they said, "Good job." or
"Bad job." or "Good job." or "Bad job."
and they train these AI models to create a script based on their opinion of what good content is. Well, depending on your niche or depending on who you are, you might have a specific taste that you
like. And so, what you want to do is you
like. And so, what you want to do is you want to actually ground the model or point your AI agent at a place where they can find a high-quality example.
And the best way to do this, in my opinion, is to give it access to YouTube. And so, the first skill that we
YouTube. And so, the first skill that we can use inside Codex is YouTube researcher. So, again, all of these
researcher. So, again, all of these skills can be found on the skills page in the description, but whenever I say {slash} YouTube researcher, "Please, can
you generate an intro for this video in the style of Theo Brown?" I forget the name P3 chat guy. The topic is and then
we'll just say, "this video." And I'm going to give it the outline. And so,
here's where I'm writing my content script. And if I just paste this in
script. And if I just paste this in here, now if I press enter and I want to create an intro for this video in the style of Theo, this will allow it to go to YouTube, pull the transcript
immediately, and I can ask it to say, "Please, can you pull his latest 10 videos and figure out which one best fits your idea, and then I want you to
come up with five hook options or intro options." And so, now what it's doing is
options." And so, now what it's doing is it is going off, going to YouTube, pulling all of these different transcripts, and then it will come up with a good intro grounded in his
examples. And one of my favorite things
examples. And one of my favorite things about Codex is I can actually multitask.
So, if I press command N, I can immediately switch chats, and I can say, "Please, can you find Cleo Abram on
YouTube? I want you to look at the
YouTube? I want you to look at the transcripts for her shorts. Please come
up with five options for short-form content." And I can paste that script
content." And I can paste that script in, and we can run it. Another thing
that I really like to do is if I'm trying to learn a topic, and by the way, we'll come back to these. They're still
loading, right? We can see down here. We
see that they're These both are working, and you can see which one's working. You
can see that this one just finished because it's a blue dot, and this one's still working. I want to learn the
still working. I want to learn the concept of skills and plugins, and I want to learn it really from first principles. I can say {slash} YouTube
principles. I can say {slash} YouTube researcher. I want you to explain it in
researcher. I want you to explain it in the way that Andrej Karpathy does in his YouTube video. So, please pull the
YouTube video. So, please pull the transcript from his LLM video. I really
like that one, and then I want you to explain it to me exactly like he does in a one-page document. Don't create a document, just respond in the chat, but really make it sound like him. Right
now, we're just using it to learn. We're
having it explain it in Andrej Karpathy's voice, and now it's grounded in YouTube. And this is just one really
in YouTube. And this is just one really cool way that I can use it. So here we have some options in the style of Theo.
"Codex is starting to get really weird for me." Classic Theo at hook. A few
for me." Classic Theo at hook. A few
months ago it was the thing that I open when I needed help with code. Now it's
where I do almost everything. Research,
docs, content planning, emails, scripts, thumbnails, publishing, all of it. And
the funny part is I can actually picture him say it. Like and it is genuinely in his voice and so that is really why I like to use this skill. Here's the
Karpathy style for skills and this sounds exactly like him. Think of Codex as a little operating system around a language model. At the center there is
language model. At the center there is the model. The model can read text,
the model. The model can read text, write text, reason and decide what to do next. But by itself it doesn't know your
next. But by itself it doesn't know your personal workflows. It does not
personal workflows. It does not automatically know that when Riley says research YouTube the right move is to use Supa Data, pull transcripts, compare hooks and synthesize patterns. That
knowledge has to live somewhere and that is what a skill is. And this really does sound like Andre Karpathy. This is kind of exactly how he would explain it if he
were to be making a YouTube video on this topic. So in order to pull these
this topic. So in order to pull these transcripts you actually will need access to one external tool and this is actually called an API and an API is
basically like a password so that you can use certain technologies and and you can basically pull information from certain software. And in order to get
certain software. And in order to get that you need to go to Supa Data. You
can just Google Supa Data and here you go and this actually works for Instagram, YouTube and TikTok, I believe. And you can pull the transcript
believe. And you can pull the transcript from any video and I believe it actually works on X as well. All right, so that's a pretty simple skill. YouTube
Researcher allows you to ground whatever task it is that you're trying to create in YouTube transcripts which allows you to pull any data immediately and you can use use with any AI agent and I really
love this one. The next one is somewhat similar, and it also has to do with grounding, except it's in your own second brain. This is the second useful
second brain. This is the second useful skill for content creation, the Readwise CLI skill. Many of you have likely heard
CLI skill. Many of you have likely heard of Readwise, and maybe you think of it as a way that you can like highlight things in a Kindle or on the internet, and you save it to a central database.
And that's partially what it is, but basically I use it on Twitter. I I'm I'm in the AI space, and Twitter is where so much is happening, at least a massive part of the conversation around AI
topics happen on Twitter. And so let's say I find something interesting. All I
have to do is bookmark it. On Readwise,
I can automatically sync my bookmarks to Twitter, and this will automatically send this to Readwise. Now, this only happens once per day once you set up this integration, but in order to send
it right away, you can just use the Chrome extension. So this is Arc
Chrome extension. So this is Arc browser, but you can use the Chrome extension, and you can just press this button right here, and you can automatically save it. And you can even add a note here, and you can say this
should be used in my next video. And you
can save this, and this will automatically get saved to your Readwise. You can see here what we just
Readwise. You can see here what we just saved gets saved to your Readwise. But
here we have just all of the interesting tweets that I've bookmarked or manually saved on my computer or on my phone.
Then you can share it to this central database. And because Readwise has a CLI
database. And because Readwise has a CLI tool you can use, you can create a skill that accesses all of this information.
So what I can do is I can go to Codex, and I can say, "Hey, I'm coming up with video ideas for short form. I want to create seven videos this week. I want
you to look at my last week of items in and I can do slash read wise slash read wise CLI control. Please come up with 30
different concepts that I could do based on the content. Look it for for commonalities and similarities between the items that I've saved and really come up with good content ideas. And so
I can run that prompt. You know, the next level of this might be something like might be an identical prompt. And
remember I actually going to say read wise by control. I'm going to say please make sure to look at my content for the past week on YouTube, right? And then we
can use another skill, which is YouTube researcher. So we can ground it in my
researcher. So we can ground it in my YouTube. And so now we're saying look at
YouTube. And so now we're saying look at my previous content. Also, look at all of the things that I find interesting.
Now come up with 30 ideas. And so then we can run both of those at the same time. All right, so the first one is
time. All right, so the first one is done. And so this is the one that didn't
done. And so this is the one that didn't reference my YouTube videos. But you can see here that it went through all of my different things that I saved inside
Readwise and it came up with 30 different ideas. And here you can see
different ideas. And here you can see search is going to zero. Every startup
needs a content team now. Codex is
becoming the workspace for prosumers.
These are all tweets based on on things that I've saved to my second brain. One
thing that I just realized is I wish there was actually a link a link to the original post that I could click on. And so what I can do is I can
click on. And so what I can do is I can say can you please add the link to the original post um where uh like whatever
your idea is, I want a link to the original post. And then I want you to
original post. And then I want you to update the skill so that you always include that. You should never not
include that. You should never not include the original link. And so this is a skill that I've created that uses Readwise CLI control. And the way that
you edit a skill is just by telling it to edit the skill. You say, "From now on, whenever I use this skill, I want you to do this." And it will just immediately edit the skill. Like, I'll
update the Readwise skill so future content idea outputs always include the original source URL when Reader exposes it. And so that's all it takes. And
it. And so that's all it takes. And
there you go. We now have a list of all of the things that I've saved. These are
video ideas that I can use. And if I want to reference the original tweet, and look, some of them even have two. So
every startup needs a content team. Now,
there's two tweets, so one and two. And
we opened the two tweets that it referenced. So this one, every business
referenced. So this one, every business should have an in-house content team.
And this is the one from TBPN saying the days of turning search and social media traffic into profitable businesses are gone and saying that you need to have an authoritative brand. So they are
authoritative brand. So they are relevant for the video idea, every startup needs a content team. And so I really like this. In fact, I might actually use this to help come up with
content ideas. And maybe, let's say I
content ideas. And maybe, let's say I wanted to see this every single morning.
Well, it's as easy as this. Hello, I
want you to turn this into an automation. Every single morning at 8:00
automation. Every single morning at 8:00 a.m. in this chat, I want you to take
a.m. in this chat, I want you to take the stuff I've saved for the past 3 days and create a document exactly like this.
And yeah, I want that to be in this chat and every single morning. 7 days a week.
So now, this will actually create an automation. And so it will automate the
automation. And so it will automate the use of the Readwise skill and it will create a document just like this. And I tell people that's how you
this. And I tell people that's how you should create skills and automations.
You should do a useful thing, and once you once you use the tools in the right way to create an output that you like, say, "Please turn this into a skill called blank." Once that happens, then
called blank." Once that happens, then you can say, "Okay, I want you to automatically do this." Like after you test your skill and iterate and make it better, you can say, "I want you to do this every day at X time." And so, here
it says done. I created a daily automation for 8:00 a.m. every morning
in this chat, and you can actually click on this directly, or you can come up to automations, and you can see that it's the morning Readwise short form ideas, and there we go. We are using the
Readwise reader CLI workflow, and we are sending them some video ideas every single morning. And that is skill number
single morning. And that is skill number two. Let's move on to skill number
two. Let's move on to skill number three. All right. So, for skill number
three. All right. So, for skill number three, we have Excalidraw diagrams. I've talked a little bit about this before.
This right here is Excalidraw. I
literally use Excalidraw for all of my content, and whenever I'm trying to create a visual diagram of anything, I use the Codex Excalidraw diagrams skill.
And I can do this by going to Codex, command N. I can do {slash} Excalidraw.
command N. I can do {slash} Excalidraw.
And remember, all of these skills you can find in the link in the description.
And you just go Excalidraw diagrams. I want to learn about plugins and skills.
I want you to create a very simplified explanation of this using Excalidraw diagrams. I'm going to use this for my video. And as we go along, I'm going to
video. And as we go along, I'm going to use these skills together, right? So, I
I wanted to create an Excalidraw diagrams. Please do it in my voice, and you can use the YouTube researcher skill to find my voice about Codex. Uh you're
explaining this in context of Codex. And
if you need to reference some of the tweets that I've saved in the past to get some like outside perspective, you can do that as well. All right. And we
can use the Readwise, which is I should probably call this second brain. That
would be a better and easier one to use than the Readwise CLI control. We're basically just using
CLI control. We're basically just using our second brain. We're just giving it some context. But again, I really want
some context. But again, I really want you to uh create it in the format that is outlined in the skill because there's an exact format that's outlined in the skill and it will it should follow those
design patterns. This one might take a
design patterns. This one might take a little bit longer because it has a lot of steps. It knows it needs to create a
of steps. It knows it needs to create a diagram, but it also has to get some context from YouTube. Ooh, watch this.
So I can actually stop this and I'm going to say, "Please use sub agents for the YouTube researcher and the Readwise
to make it go faster." And sub agents are where the main agent that you're talking to can spin off little sub agents and they can work at the same time. And this allows it to go much
time. And this allows it to go much faster. And you can see here it says,
faster. And you can see here it says, "Spawned two agents." And look at this.
It says it created Zeno and Hygens. And
so we can see these sub agents working in the background, which is really fun.
And they work at the same time, so it's just way more efficient time-wise to spin up sub right. So after around 10 minutes and 50
right. So after around 10 minutes and 50 seconds, we are done. And the sub agents completed and this is what we got. So
you could see here that it says Excalidraw share URL. Part of the skill that you'll see when you download the skill, which is in the description, remember, you can just right click this
and you can say, "Open in browser." And
what this will do is it'll load a screen. It looks kind of scary, but then
screen. It looks kind of scary, but then you just hit replace my content. And
there you go. It created these diagrams right here. And so you can see here that
right here. And so you can see here that in the skill folder, we have the skill name, we have a skill.md, scripts,
helpers references assets examples and outputs. And it creates this
and outputs. And it creates this document in this format. I like this format because it kind of just looks like a presentation. It's really easy to follow. There's not a lot of text. I
follow. There's not a lot of text. I
don't like a lot of text. I want the visuals. I can add the text. And so I
visuals. I can add the text. And so I just want to create a general outline.
When you create these diagrams here, I like to full screen this and then you can even remove the side panel so you can kind of go full screen and now we
can just really analyze what we have here and you can edit it directly. So
like here we can say like change this, right? You can change these things and
right? You can change these things and you can create these outlines to your videos and I think videos that use mind maps or Excalidraw diagrams are
incredibly engaging. By default, it will
incredibly engaging. By default, it will use too much text and so that is just my preference but you can edit these however you like. If you If you download this skill and use it within Codex, you
could say, "Hey, can you please update the skill so that it includes more text?" Maybe you want to have two or
text?" Maybe you want to have two or three lines of text beneath the diagram to explain it more and that's perfectly fine. You can customize it however you
fine. You can customize it however you want. All right, so that is the
want. All right, so that is the Excalidraw diagram skill. It's
relatively simple. Now, what if you wanted to create more interactive diagrams? That's a little bit more
diagrams? That's a little bit more professional and that's what brings me to paper. Now, paper is just like Figma
to paper. Now, paper is just like Figma except it's made specifically for AI agents. This is HTML-based and it allows
agents. This is HTML-based and it allows you to create really cool diagrams with AI agents and they have a really good
built-in MCP tool and you can connect it to Codex. So we could actually go to the
to Codex. So we could actually go to the same chat here and I'm going to say, "Can you please make an animated
high-quality diagram on paper that explains these concepts? Can you please focus on the
concepts? Can you please focus on the topics surrounding skills and plugins?"
So now I can scroll down. I can do this slash and I can type in paper and I I use this paper MCP tool. Please look at the canvas that I have open, put it
there. And also notice how I'm kind of
there. And also notice how I'm kind of creating those animated charts. I want
those to be animated as well. So, make
the first intro section not animated and then make the rest of it, which goes through each concept, animated. So, now
we're using the paper MCP. And this one is connected to a tool that is outside of Codex. And I would actually prefer if
of Codex. And I would actually prefer if it opened up in this browser. I want
everything to open up in this browser, but this is a little bit more heavyweight of a tool, right? It's a lot like Figma, looks like Figma. It's just
kind of the AI version of Figma. You can
edit things directly on paper, like I can come in here and change this to banana. And you can edit it directly and
banana. And you can edit it directly and it looks a lot more like a website. And
you can fully design websites and then you can say, "Okay, turn that design into a website." And Codex will just do that. The cool part about paper, which
that. The cool part about paper, which you'll see in a second, is it updates it live. I'll show you. And this is really
live. I'll show you. And this is really cool. You can actually see the AI is
cool. You can actually see the AI is present right here, and it's actually analyzing these right now. It's not
going to change these, but you can see that it's analyzing these to kind of get a style reference. And then it is going to generate some new slides. So, it's
just begun working on this skills and plugin animated explainer, and we can see it work live. Skills and plugins are
the stack around Codex, and we can see it design in real time.
Oh, look at this. So, this one's animated a little bit. I don't know how animated this needs to be.
And we can actually give feedback in real time, right? We can just screenshot this. And since it has steering,
this. And since it has steering, right? Since it has steering,
right? Since it has steering, what we can do is we can go to Codex and say, "Fix this overlap. Also, put all of
these on their own row instead of two wide. They're
scrunched." And since I have steering on by default, I can just inject my prompt directly into Codex and we can steer it back so that everything fits perfectly.
All right, you can see here it's kind of fixing its formatting in real time. It
made everything wider and that's why you always want to steer it when you see it it's going wrong. And now it's much cleaner, right? We gave it a lot more
cleaner, right? We gave it a lot more room to operate. And I think this is a pretty good start. And it is finally done. And so this is what it created.
done. And so this is what it created.
Kind of a nice little animated diagram here showing the full process of how skills work within side Codex. And if
you want to use these images anywhere, it's really easy to just click on this right here. You can scroll down and you
right here. You can scroll down and you can export it. So we can export this as a PNG and it gets automatically saved to the downloads. We can click on this. We
the downloads. We can click on this. We
can open this up. We can make this little bit wider. And you can zoom in and you can see all of the images that it creates. And some use cases that I've
it creates. And some use cases that I've personally used it for is just ideation, you know, whether I'm ideating something for my Instagram or if it's has something to do with brand, it's really
good for ideation similar to Excalidraw.
I use it a lot for website creation. So
I'll just have it generate 10 different options for a landing page. I also use it for lead magnets. And then also thumbnail creation, which I'll get to later. We're about to get to the coolest
later. We're about to get to the coolest skill number six, which is Gen Media, which is actually insane. I'll get to that in a second. And we're actually going to come back to the paper skill and that that will be the coolest use
case for paper. And then also just general brand planning and you can use this in tandem with image generation, which is incredibly interesting. And so,
that's kind of how I use skill number four, which is paper. All right. So, now
it's time to dive more into more immersive assets that you can create for marketing. And the next one is kind of a
marketing. And the next one is kind of a duo, two skills or two plugins in one, and that is Remotion and Hyperframes.
So, if you create a new chat on Coda, and you type at Remotion, you can reference Remotion. This is a plugin.
reference Remotion. This is a plugin.
Remember, at is plugin, and you can find this in plugins. So, the plugins we're talking about is Remotion, and we're also talking about Hyperframes. They are
both built into Coda, but you do need to enable them. And so, you can do at
enable them. And so, you can do at Remotion or at Hyperframes. Now, I've
heard many people say that Hyperframes is slightly better. It's just a different technology. I haven't done
different technology. I haven't done enough research to figure out what is the difference. I like the Remotion
the difference. I like the Remotion editor. It's been around for longer, and
editor. It's been around for longer, and it feels more professional, but Hyperframes can do more advanced motion graphics. And so, for example, I've
graphics. And so, for example, I've created a video in the past. This is
with Hyperframes. And so, I created this animation of this phone, and we can actually play this. And here's just a live demo of me putting an AI agent in a
group chat, and I wanted to create it, and look at this. It it basically created this in two prompts. It created
the phone border, and it just created these text animations inside. And so,
just like, you know, Premiere Pro or something, right? you have these
something, right? you have these different timelines. So, you have a
different timelines. So, you have a timeline, and you can scroll to the exact second that you want, and you can reference it. You can say, "At 8
reference it. You can say, "At 8 seconds, I want you to zoom in on the phone." And so, if you work for a
phone." And so, if you work for a company and you want to sell your software, whether that is a a app on the computer, or if it's an iOS app, this is a really good way to do it. You can show
a demo, and you can add a screenshot, and give it to Codex, and say, "I want you to create a demo of this user interface." All right, so it just
interface." All right, so it just finished. It says done. I added a zoom
finished. It says done. I added a zoom at 8 seconds. So, we can go see we're at 6 5, and we can Let's go down right here. We can go to 8 seconds. You see,
here. We can go to 8 seconds. You see,
it zooms in at 8 seconds.
Now.
See that? It zooms in, and you can get super granular. So, I can say, "Zoom out
super granular. So, I can say, "Zoom out at 11 seconds. At the beginning, so 0 seconds, I want the phone to fly in from the left, a little bit more animated. I
want the gradient to turn red at 10 seconds. Once the phone leaves the
seconds. Once the phone leaves the screen, or on the way out, I want it to like do a full 360 spin. When the agent types a chat, I want it to like splat
onto the screen, or like be a little bit more animated when the message comes onto the screen, right? Because it's
just pretty boring when the agent types something. I want it to be a little bit
something. I want it to be a little bit more animated. And so, yeah, we can run
more animated. And so, yeah, we can run that. And this actually goes pretty
that. And this actually goes pretty quickly, right? They make these changes
quickly, right? They make these changes pretty quickly, and here we can see it zooms in. Oh wait, it should fly in from
zooms in. Oh wait, it should fly in from the left now. See, it flies in from the left. Ooh, it's nice and animated. Let's
left. Ooh, it's nice and animated. Let's
see when the agent kind of zooms in.
It does kind of animate a little bit more when the text comes in.
Let's see what happens when it comes out.
Let's see if it's Let's see.
And there we go, it slides out. That's
pretty good. I will say the physics on HyperFrames is a little bit better than Remotion, but you can try out both. And
so, this is really good for launch videos. It's also really good for b-roll
videos. It's also really good for b-roll or on-screen overlays for your YouTube video. For example, in one of my videos
video. For example, in one of my videos recently that got 120,000 views, we used this in the intro.
In this video, we're going to be breaking down the seven core capabilities of Codex, OpenAI's AI agent super app, each with real-world And just something simple like that that
like really gets the viewer, right? They
they see they can see a clear outline of the video. I use re-motion for this all
the video. I use re-motion for this all the time. And what's cool about this is
the time. And what's cool about this is we can actually reuse these templates.
For instance, now I'm running re-motion.
And remember, I don't fully understand the difference. I just know that I've
the difference. I just know that I've used re-motion a little bit more. And in
re-motion, I've created these different graphics. You can see remember that
graphics. You can see remember that graphic I was just showing you? Here is
the example of one, right? Here is the video that I've created that shows the seven different capabilities. They pop
up on screen. Now, what I can do is I can say, "Okay, I want to create another one except for the seven skills that I'm mentioning in this video here. Please
make a new composition called skills outline." And what I can do is I can go
outline." And what I can do is I can go to our script that we've created. I can
copy this, use the seven just pick seven of of these and put them in this outline, create a new composition. I
actually want you to create the first one exactly like the dotted components composition. And then I want you to
composition. And then I want you to create three more that are like different variations. This should be all
different variations. This should be all on one composition, have four different scenes. That's how I want you to make
scenes. That's how I want you to make the options. And so, just some
the options. And so, just some vocabulary here. So, it's going to
vocabulary here. So, it's going to create a new composition and it's going to have multiple scenes on that same composition and I'll be able to choose which one I like most. And then I can I
can render that one and put it as an overlay in my video. And so it's still working, but you can see that it did create Skills outline. In fact, I think what it's doing right now is taking
screenshots of it in the background to try and get an idea of what it looks like. So this is the first one. And
like. So this is the first one. And
remember, we referenced this dotted tool pop-up which looks exactly like this.
Right? And so this one's going to be very similar, but I told it to be creative for the next one, two, and three. So let's give these all a try. So
three. So let's give these all a try. So
this is the first one. Looks very
similar to the original. The next one Oh, so they have them divided by category. That one's kind of cool.
category. That one's kind of cool.
Here they kind of go around the circle.
And here if we wanted to make a change, all you need to do is come up here, click take a screenshot, paste it in, please fix the overlap. No need for
heading on this one. All right? It's
really easy to just copy the screenshot, give it to the agent. Let's view number four.
And this one a little too much text.
Again, we can I can select this part.
Too much text for all of these here. And
you can see that this has one annotation and we can just say fix. All right?
Because the annotation is part of the context. So that's another hack is you
context. So that's another hack is you have this annotation. You can annotate directly or you can just take a screenshot and paste it in. Those are
kind of the two ways that you can edit it. So I'm going to wait for it to
it. So I'm going to wait for it to finish here just to show you that we made some edits. And here we are. We see
that it made the change. It got rid of the heading for this one and I believe it made some less text on this one. So
you can see here we made we have some options. And then once you're done with
options. And then once you're done with the video that you're creating, whether it's with Hyperframes or Remotion, you can just click render and then render and this will actually save it directly
to your computer. And so, this right here, this whole thing on the right is like a little mini app that runs locally on your computer. And we can open this up, and I can see right here, we have
this skills outline. We can open it up, and here we have the actual video exported. I could put it in Premiere Pro
exported. I could put it in Premiere Pro or any video editing software, and this is super useful for launch videos and for on-screen overlays. Okay, so that
concludes number five, which is Remotion and Hyperframes. I've created a full
and Hyperframes. I've created a full video on using codecs to make Remotion videos that goes much further in detail.
So, that'll be in the link in the description. The next one is the one
description. The next one is the one that I just started working on, and it takes further this idea of mini apps.
Let me show you. So, if you guys have been following my content for a while, you know that I vibe coded this app that uses the FAL API and allows me to generate images. So, I can generate an
generate images. So, I can generate an image of @Riley. I can go @Riley riding a tiger. And what this does is this uses
a tiger. And what this does is this uses the FAL API. And the FAL is just a platform that hosts all of the different
creative AI models, every single one.
And so, what I did is I said, "I want you to create a an app." Except, I I had added a local database, so all of these images are stored on a local database.
And so, the FAL API allows you to just use any of the different image or video models. And if I change it to FAL mode,
models. And if I change it to FAL mode, I can click on this, and I can choose from any model. Here's image to video, video to video. We have Topaz video
upscale, literally any type of asset that you can create on FAL is available in this app. And I created the first version of this app in one prompt, and
it took 40 minutes to go through all of FAL's image generation and video generation APIs and it added all of it and it spun up this app right here. So,
not only can I generate an image of me, right? I generated an image of me on a
right? I generated an image of me on a tiger and then I can very easily just drag it oops.
I can go to basic mode. Basic mode just uses the GPT model and I can just drag this down here and I can say make it night time and make the tiger pink. So,
I basically vibe coded this app. What
separates an app that you create and a mini app is that the agent can also use it. So, if I were to ask the agent, "Can
it. So, if I were to ask the agent, "Can you please generate four photos of Riley for YouTube thumbnail and add them to
the grid?" I'm not actually using the
the grid?" I'm not actually using the app. The agent is going to go through
app. The agent is going to go through and use the APIs. I don't know which API it's going to use. I don't know if it's going to use GPT image or one of the FAL APIs. The agent has access to all of
APIs. The agent has access to all of them. It can use any technology that it
them. It can use any technology that it wants and then it's just going to put them in the grid. All right, so it's done and as you can see here, not only can I generate images right here, I can
type in man and it will generate a within the grid, but the AI agent just generated one, two, three, and four. So,
the same APIs that I can use within this app, the AI agent can also use those same APIs. I control the app and the
same APIs. I control the app and the agent controls the app as well. And so,
I think this is a massive opportunity right now in the market is to create skills that have apps within them, right? There's a gen media skill and
right? There's a gen media skill and within this skill.md it teaches the agent how to use the APIs, specifically
the FAL API. And so, it can use any image or video model or sound model, etc. And within that skill, the agent can use the FALA API, but it also
includes an app where the human, right, a human can use the FALA API. And so,
when the AI agent uses this FALA API, it actually just places the images in the app. So, anytime I ask the agent to
app. So, anytime I ask the agent to generate an image or a video, it'll just give me a link to the app. I can open the app, and I can see all of my images or videos in the grid, and then I can
immediately edit it. The agent generated these right here. The agent generated this. And so, I can very easily just
this. And so, I can very easily just drag this into here, and I can say, "Please add a white text on screen that says, 'Oh my god.'" Dim the background
and make it look a little bit more cinematic. And now, it's generating. AI
cinematic. And now, it's generating. AI
generates something, places it in the app. The purpose of the mini app is so
app. The purpose of the mini app is so that I can immediately open it up and make some changes. And look at that, it's done. So, AI generated a bunch of
it's done. So, AI generated a bunch of images, I found my favorite one, I immediately edited the image, and here we have this YouTube thumbnail. And the
AI has what I call elements. So, it has photos of me in the app. So, if I ask for a photo of Riley, it has Riley as an example, right? It can use Riley as an
example, right? It can use Riley as an example, and then I had it scrape YouTube to grab some thumbnails from other creators. And so, I can very
other creators. And so, I can very easily just say, "Generate a bunch of thumbnails of Riley in the style of Matt Wolf." And since it has the elements,
Wolf." And since it has the elements, it's able to do that. Both the agent and I can use that feature. The agent can go into the database and see all the elements, and I can also see the
elements and use them manually. Like, I
can just say, "Matt Wolf," right? And
it'll insert all of those thumbnails into the image reference. And then, I can generate photos of me in the style of Matt Wolf. And so, this one is a little bit more confusing, and it's one that I'm just working on now. But, if
there's one thing I want you to get from this, it's I'm ideating around how do I create this little mini app that I can use and the agent can use and the purpose of the mini app is for the agent
to be able to to cook, do whatever it wants, and then I can go in at the end and make some final changes until I really like the final output, right?
That's how I like to use AI. I don't
like to rely on AI to do everything for me. I want it to create a bunch of
me. I want it to create a bunch of options and then I want to take it the final 10% because that's where all the value is. Finally, the seventh way that
value is. Finally, the seventh way that I use AI agents for content creation, the seventh skill that I use is my email manager. And so, I have one skill that's
manager. And so, I have one skill that's a little bit less autonomous than the next one. I want to first go over the
next one. I want to first go over the less autonomous one, which is the brand deal manager. So, what happens is is
deal manager. So, what happens is is it's going to search the inbox, it's going to filter paid offers, and it's going to look for companies likely to pay a high amount, right? We want to filter out the low amounts, and then we
want to get rid of duplicates, and then we want to research whether it's a fit or not. It's going to look at my
or not. It's going to look at my YouTube, right? It's going to use the
YouTube, right? It's going to use the YouTube research skill. It uses some other skills within this skill, and it is going to create a priority table or
sheet. It is going to create a table of
sheet. It is going to create a table of the best brand deals or best companies for brand deals for my content. So, I'm
going to run a couple of chats in parallel because that's how I normally work. I literally have so many chats
work. I literally have so many chats over the last few days just firing them off. And what I do is is I'm I'm going
off. And what I do is is I'm I'm going to first say, "Please run brand researcher and make a table for the past week." I can run this. And it already
week." I can run this. And it already knows how to do it. We can click on this and see the skills specifically, and that's one thing that you can do with a skill is you can view the skill very easily here on the right here. And as
you can see here, we have like established the scope, search the email more broadly. To break this down, I'm
more broadly. To break this down, I'm going to run a new chat, and I'm going to show you the plugin that this skill uses. And it's just the Gmail skill or
uses. And it's just the Gmail skill or the Gmail plugin. And I can say, "Can you please summarize the important
emails today about brand sponsorships?
Anyone reaching out for this purpose over the past 72 hours? I want you to please make a document for this." I'm
just trying to generalize it a little bit because this Gmail skill is incredibly useful. You also have a
incredibly useful. You also have a calendar skill. So, you can say, "Look
calendar skill. So, you can say, "Look at calendar." After doing this, please
at calendar." After doing this, please give me open times for next week when I
could schedule a call with their team.
Please select which companies I should and then I want you to suggest some calendar times and then I will give you approval after that on whether to email
them and actually schedule those calls.
And so now, it's going to go through all of my emails. It's going to It's going to summarize all of my emails for brand deals. And then, it's going to look at
deals. And then, it's going to look at my calendar and decide what are some good times that you I we could schedule calls with these brands. And then, it's going to suggest the times and then I'm
going to approve them. This is a very easy process, right? Most of my time on email is filtering out and reading the bad ones. Based on its memory of me, it
bad ones. Based on its memory of me, it knows what I want and what I don't want.
So, I can get so much of that work done just with an AI agent. And then, this is how you kind of like skill stack here and we're able to just like schedule all the meetings. I can say, "Okay, I want
the meetings. I can say, "Okay, I want to schedule all my meetings during this time, this time, and this time." And if you want to further automate it, of course, you can add automations, which we talked about earlier. And look at
this. So, we have a table of every
this. So, we have a table of every single person who's reached out to me, Hyper Agent, Air Wallex, Minimax,
HubSpot, Cursor, Canva, Opus Clip, Abacus, GenSpark. all of these companies
Abacus, GenSpark. all of these companies have reached out and we have this massive table. These are all like high
massive table. These are all like high quality companies here in the high priority and as we move down to the medium, these are ones I haven't heard of as much, right? The AI knows exactly
what we're looking for and it put it into this table. And I could literally ask it like, hey, can you please respond to this company, this company and this company? This is just a really good
company? This is just a really good overview. Also, the summarized
overview. Also, the summarized sponsorship emails, the one where I did the Gmail then the calendar, this one worked for 7 minutes and it's like I created a document here cuz we asked it
for a document. If we click on this, this opens up and it created this very clean document, brand sponsorship outreach and here it shows some spare
time that I have and it gave us some suggested times to set up meetings. I
could very easily ask it, say, yep, set it up during this time, this time and this time and it would absolutely do that and this is actually how I schedule my meetings. And regarding the
my meetings. And regarding the automations, I do have an automation set up that does that first thing which it creates a table of everyone who's reached out for the day. I check it every single morning and it also emails
me the same table that I can check on email. So if I don't see it within the
email. So if I don't see it within the Codex app, I get it sent to my email. It
just sends it from me to myself and it's incredibly useful and yeah, I get it every morning and it gives me a nice overview of everything. I just use AI to organize all the information so I can
make really, really quick decisions. And
finally, we actually have an eighth skill. Consider this a bonus. This is
skill. Consider this a bonus. This is
one that I almost forgot about. I just
realized that I have a buffer skill. So
on Codex, I have a {slash} buffer publisher and I'm going to say, can you please take all of the research that I've done recently, look at the memory, look at the chats. I want you to analyze
it and I want you to add five ideas to buffer based on this information. I know
we've talked a lot of a a lot today about some things. So, look at your memory. I want you to pick the five
memory. I want you to pick the five ideas that you think I should make content about and add it to buffer as an idea. And so, Buffer is just my social
idea. And so, Buffer is just my social media scheduler. So, I can very easily
media scheduler. So, I can very easily upload a draft and I'm able to post this across every single channel that I have.
And I can post short-form content. And
what they just released a brand new API that I can give access to Codex. And so
now, Codex has the ability to create drafts. So, if I were to give it a
drafts. So, if I were to give it a video, it could create a draft for me.
But I think the most useful thing is I can very easily just store ideas. And
what it's going to do here, you see only two ideas right now. I've kind of cleared these out. Every day I take all my ideas that I save here and either put them in motion, so I start creating content, or I just remove them. A lot of
ideas I don't end up actually using. And
now, Codex can actually take a look at all of the memory and look it's looking through all of its memory files on things that we've done and it's going to upload those ideas to Buffer. And then,
I will be able to see them in Buffer.
And this is where I look for for all my ideas in publishing. And would you look at this? It added them directly to
at this? It added them directly to Buffer. This one's not anything special.
Buffer. This one's not anything special.
I do just like to be able to upload my ideas and make sure they don't get lost.
And this is a good way to just unload all of the things that I've been working on every single day in Codex and upload them to Buffer as ideas. So, all of these skills can be found on
chorus.com/skills.
chorus.com/skills.
I will have all of those skills updated and you can try them in Codex or Claude Code. If you want to test them out for
Code. If you want to test them out for free, you can test them in our new experimental AI agent product that we're releasing very soon. We've been working on this for the past few months and I'm
really excited about it. I can click try for free and it will spin up an AI agent and this is the iOS app skill. And so,
so is a virtual computer running in the cloud and it's running Claude code and you're soon going to be able to run Claude code and code X and sign in with
your code X account and this will never die. Right? With code X your computer
die. Right? With code X your computer dies, this will never die. This is
running in the cloud and it is a full computer. In fact, you can see all of
computer. In fact, you can see all of your files, you can see all of your skills, all of your channels. I can very easily connect it to I message and I can connect it with all of my tools just
like you can in code X except it never dies and you can use it directly in I message and you can add it to your group chat. So you can add this agent to your
chat. So you can add this agent to your group chat and you can use it with a friend. And so all of these skills,
friend. And so all of these skills, we're actually going to call them agents. You can with one click test
agents. You can with one click test these skills/agents in a little virtual computer that never dies and you can message it through I message and it's running the best AI
models in the world and yeah, anyway, let me know what you guys think of this product. We're trying to get to gather
product. We're trying to get to gather early feedback. We just launched it a
early feedback. We just launched it a few days ago silently. We didn't really announce it. It's just something we've
announce it. It's just something we've been working on. So if you guys could give us some feedback, that would be amazing. I'm super excited about it.
amazing. I'm super excited about it.
I'll definitely talk about it more as we build it out. We have a lot of features we want to get out before we do our full release. But anyway, thank you guys for
release. But anyway, thank you guys for watching. chorus.com/skills
watching. chorus.com/skills
and you can find all your skills. You
can use them in code X Claude code or chorus. Anyway, thank you guys so much
chorus. Anyway, thank you guys so much for watching. I'll see you here in the
for watching. I'll see you here in the next video.
Loading video analysis...