Agentic Animation Tool – think After Effects for your agents

AgentFX launched as an open-source agentic animation tool that lets AI agents including Claude Code, Codex and any MCP client write motion-graphics videos in a new Reel Script format (.reel) and render them through a native Rust CPU/GPU renderer rather than a browser. The tool requires Rust stable 1.85 or newer plus ffmpeg, offers lint, single-frame and contact-sheet previews before rendering, and ships an agent skill, a Python standard-library MCP server exposing 10 tools such as agentfx_lint, agentfx_frame and agentfx_render, and an optional local director desk bound to 127.0.0.1 with no authentication.

Motion graphics and video effects for AI agents. A native CPU/GPU renderer, no browser. An agent such as Claude Code, Codex or any MCP client writes a short script in Reel Script .reel . AgentFX lints it with fix hints, shows single frames and contact sheets so the agent can look before it renders, and renders the video with its own Rust renderer. Output is exactly what the script says copy, brand colours, timing , and the same script always gives the same frames. Website: agentfx.dev https://agentfx.dev You need Rust stable 1.85 or newer and ffmpeg . Optional: a Vulkan driver for GPU effects, and piper https://github.com/OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl for text to speech. git clone https://github.com/agentfxhq/agentfx && cd agentfx tools/install.sh builds, installs agentfx + agentfx-render to ~/.local/bin, data to ~/.local/share/agentfx Or build in place with cargo build --release binaries in target/release/ . Details and all environment variables: docs/BUILD.md https://github.com/agentfxhq/agentfx/blob/main/docs/BUILD.md . Write hello.reel also in examples/quickstart.reel https://github.com/agentfxhq/agentfx/blob/main/examples/quickstart.reel : video "Hello AgentFX" size=1280x720 fps=30 captions=off scene ink dur=4s layer film x=0 y=0 w=100% h=100% fluid ink res=1/4 vorticity=18 seed=3 color= 3CBF87 text word "AGENTFX" size=200 weight=900 color= 3CBF87 x=50% y=50% anchor=center nowrap when portrait set word size=110 @1s ink word into ink dur=0.5s noise=400 @1.4s stir ink at=50%,50% radius=30% strength=3 dur=1.4s Then lint, look, render: agentfx lint hello.reel --measure --all-formats JSON diagnostics, checked in 16:9 and 9:16 agentfx frame hello.reel --at 2.2s -o frame.png one frame, to look at agentfx sheet hello.reel -o sheet.png a contact sheet of the whole video agentfx render hello.reel -o hello.mp4 the video .gif, .webp, .mov, .webm by extension agentfx render hello.reel --format 9:16 -o hello-vertical.mp4 agentfx catalog --md lists everything the format can do; docs/SPEC.md https://github.com/agentfxhq/agentfx/blob/main/docs/SPEC.md is the full Reel Script reference. More examples: examples/features/ https://github.com/agentfxhq/agentfx/blob/main/examples/features one effect per file , examples/showcase.reel https://github.com/agentfxhq/agentfx/blob/main/examples/showcase.reel , examples/components.reel https://github.com/agentfxhq/agentfx/blob/main/examples/components.reel . Skill. skill/agentfx/ https://github.com/agentfxhq/agentfx/blob/main/skill/agentfx is an agent skill: quick mode write, lint, look, render by default, and an optional director mode that agrees on brief, directions, dramaturgy, storyboard and hero variants before the full render. For Claude Code, copy or link the folder into ~/.claude/skills/agentfx/ ; other agents can read SKILL.md as instructions. MCP server. mcp/server.py https://github.com/agentfxhq/agentfx/blob/main/mcp/server.py Python standard library only exposes agentfx spec , agentfx catalog , agentfx lint , agentfx timing , agentfx frame , agentfx sheet , agentfx render , agentfx design guide , agentfx lens and an optional agentfx critique . Frames and sheets come back as images, so the agent can look at its work. claude mcp add agentfx -- python3 /path/to/agentfx/mcp/server.py after tools/install.sh: claude mcp add agentfx -- python3 ~/.local/share/agentfx/mcp/server.py Any MCP client that speaks stdio works the same way for Codex, add the same command as an MCP server in its config . Without MCP, agents simply call the agentfx CLI: every command prints JSON. Director desk optional . director/ https://github.com/agentfxhq/agentfx/blob/main/director holds a small local web page and a second MCP server for director mode: the agent posts decision cards, you answer them in the browser. It binds to 127.0.0.1 only and has no authentication. See skill/agentfx/desk.md https://github.com/agentfxhq/agentfx/blob/main/skill/agentfx/desk.md . - Fluid and ink: a 2D fluid solver: pour, stir, dissolve a word into ink, reveal a layout through a stain. - Physics: drop, pile, push and swing; rigid bodies solved at compile time and baked into keyframes. - Shatter: Voronoi fracture for text, logos and shapes, driven by the same physics. - Slit-scan and time displacement, time remap, rewind, echo: effects that need the frames before and after. - Infinite zoom: seamless loops with nested worlds and a constant-speed camera. - Glitch, RGB split, VHS and CRT, dither, ASCII: seeded looks, animatable per layer. - Halftone, risograph, grain, colour grading and LUTs. - Light on flat design: soft shadows from distance fields, light sweeps, god rays. - Kinetic typography: per letter, word or line animators, variable font axes, OpenType features, strokes, text on a path. - Audio: beat and bar anchors, properties driven by the music, spectrum and waveform visualizers. - Captions: word-by-word styles from SRT, VTT or Whisper JSON, with safe-area and read-time lint. - Presenter: a rigged character with lip sync, gestures and moods. - Point clouds and world camera: tens of thousands of particles, camera tours over one large canvas. - Layout and components: cards, stats, charts, diagrams, code with diffs, browser and phone mockups, a 2.5D camera. - Motion blur shutter-accurate , masks and mattes, blend modes. Output: MP4 H.264 via x264, VAAPI/QSV or NVENC , ProRes 4444 and VP9 with alpha, GIF, animated WebP, PNG sequences; 16:9, 9:16, 1:1 and 4:5 from one script. AgentFX is early software 0.1.0 . Expect the format and the CLI to change. - Platforms: tested on Linux x86 64 . macOS and Windows are experimental and untested. - GPU: GPU effects use Vulkan only via wgpu . Without a usable GPU everything renders on the CPU. - No true 3D: a 2.5D camera, parallax and projected point clouds, but no 3D meshes or lighting. - No timeline editor: the script is the source of truth. - Text to speech: piper local is the default. The edge engine uses an undocumented online service and is opt-in only; see docs/INSTALL-NOTES.md https://github.com/agentfxhq/agentfx/blob/main/docs/INSTALL-NOTES.md . - Music: bring your own track; AgentFX analyses it for beats but does not compose. - HTML input: the renderer also takes HTML/CSS scenes with CSS animations docs/INPUT.md https://github.com/agentfxhq/agentfx/blob/main/docs/INPUT.md ; full CSS and JavaScript are not supported. | Path | What | |---|---| | crates/ir | agentfx-ir : the intermediate representation docs/IR.md https://github.com/agentfxhq/agentfx/blob/main/docs/IR.md | | crates/render | agentfx-render : the renderer IR or HTML scene to video | | crates/script | agentfx : the Reel Script compiler and main CLI | | vendor/ | patched Blitz, Parley and Stylo crates vendor/README.md https://github.com/agentfxhq/agentfx/blob/main/vendor/README.md | | assets/ , design/ | bundled fonts OFL , design lenses and component skins | | examples/ | Reel Script examples, IR and HTML samples | | docs/ | spec, IR and input formats, build notes | | tools/ , mcp/ , skill/ , director/ | helper scripts, MCP server, agent skill, director desk | Apache License 2.0, see LICENSE https://github.com/agentfxhq/agentfx/blob/main/LICENSE . Copyright 2026 Levels Branding and Webdevelopment OG. Third-party code and fonts keep their own licences MIT/Apache-2.0, MPL-2.0 for the vendored Stylo, OFL-1.1 for the fonts ; see NOTICE https://github.com/agentfxhq/agentfx/blob/main/NOTICE . Security issues: see SECURITY.md https://github.com/agentfxhq/agentfx/blob/main/SECURITY.md . Contributions: CONTRIBUTING.md https://github.com/agentfxhq/agentfx/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md .