Kits

VideoKit content policy

VideoKit only handles user-owned, royalty-free, or original Remotion compositions — never copyrighted source video. How provenance validation works.

VideoKit is a programmatic video studio, not a video editor for arbitrary footage. To keep it legally clean and safe to ship with, its scope is deliberately narrow and enforced by the skills themselves.

What VideoKit handles

VideoKit only works with media you have the right to use:

  • User-owned content — footage, images, audio, or fonts you created or own.
  • Royalty-free / licensed content — assets covered by a royalty-free or otherwise permissive license you can point to.
  • Original Remotion compositions — video generated from code (React/Remotion), which is original by construction.

What VideoKit refuses

VideoKit never processes copyrighted source video. It will not ingest, edit, transcribe, or render clips, images, audio, or fonts you do not have the rights to. This is not a soft guideline — the ingestion skills enforce it.

How provenance is validated

Every skill that ingests an external asset validates provenance before touching the file:

  1. It checks the file's license metadata where available.
  2. It asks you to attest ownership or paste a royalty-free license URL for the asset.
  3. It logs the attestation into the project manifest, so the project carries a record of why each asset was cleared.

If provenance cannot be established for an imported clip, image, font, or audio track, the skill halts and returns a provenance error rather than rendering it. There is no override that lets a skill proceed with unverified copyrighted material.

Why this exists

This policy is a locked product decision (see Core concepts for how kits are designed). It gives you two things: legal safety — you are not piping copyrighted footage through an automated pipeline — and clean positioning — VideoKit is the programmatic, code-first video kit, distinct from tools that promise to edit anything you throw at them.

Your responsibility

Attesting that you own or are licensed to use an asset is a representation you are making. VideoKit's provenance checks are a guardrail, not legal advice; you remain responsible for the rights to the media you bring into a project. If you are unsure whether an asset is cleared, don't import it — generate the equivalent as an original Remotion composition instead. Questions? Email hello@theclaudekit.com.