video-generate

video-generate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from bytedance/agentkit-samples. It costs 34 tokens per session (415 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A script that creates video files from written descriptions, with an optional image controlling the video’s first frame. The image can come from a web URL or a local file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create short videos from prompts, animate a starting image, and save the generated video to a specified filename.
Why use it?
It removes the need to start a video-generation workflow manually or prepare the first frame in a separate step.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex ✓ vendor

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to create short videos from prompts, animate a starting image, and save the generated video to a specified filename.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bytedance/agentkit-samples/video-generate
About the project

bytedance/agentkit-samples is a collection of examples and tutorials for Volcengine AgentKit, an AI-agent development platform for building, deploying, and operating agent applications. Developers use the samples to learn agent creation, multi-agent collaboration, memory, retrieval, MCP integrations, media generation, customer service, and other workflows. The catalogue skills provide agent workflows based on these examples.

bytedance/agentkit-samples · 449 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add bytedance/agentkit-samples --skill video-generate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bytedance/agentkit-samples

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 415 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00034 $0.00415
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00208
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00083
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00042

Measured 3d ago against content hash 48c7f04e1c22, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

video-generate scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/video_generate.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/v1/video-generate/SKILL.md · 49 lines

What it actually says

Video Generate

适用场景

当需要根据文本描述生成视频时,使用该技能。支持通过首帧图片控制视频起始画面,首帧可以是 URL 或本地文件路径。

使用步骤

  1. 准备目标文件名(如 output.mp4)和清晰具体的 prompt
  2. (可选) 准备首帧图片,可以是 HTTP URL,也可以是本地文件路径(脚本会自动转为 Base64)。
  3. 运行脚本 python scripts/video_generate.py <filename> "<prompt>" [first_frame]。运行之前cd到对应的目录。
  4. 脚本将输出视频的 TOS URL 并自动下载到指定文件。

认证与凭据来源

  • 优先读取 MODEL_VIDEO_API_KEYARK_API_KEY 环境变量。
  • 若未配置,将尝试使用 VOLCENGINE_ACCESS_KEYVOLCENGINE_SECRET_KEY 获取 Ark API Key。

输出格式

  • 控制台输出生成的视频 URL。
  • 视频文件将被下载到指定路径。

示例

纯文本生成:

python scripts/video_generate.py "cat.mp4" "一只可爱的猫"

带首帧图片生成(URL):

python scripts/video_generate.py "dog_run.mp4" "一只小狗在草地上奔跑" "https://example.com/dog_start.png"

带首帧图片生成(本地文件):

python scripts/video_generate.py "my_video.mp4" "图片中的人物动起来" "/path/to/local/image.jpg"
Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 49 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 48c7f04e1c22

Subscribe to this mod's changes

video-generate is a skill published in the GitHub repository bytedance/agentkit-samples (449 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 415 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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