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.
npx skills add calesthio/generative-media-skills --skill pika-videogit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/calesthio/generative-media-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/calesthio/generative-media-skills/pika-video)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/calesthio/generative-media-skills/pika-video"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/calesthio/generative-media-skills/pika-video/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/calesthio/generative-media-skills/pika-video"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/calesthio/generative-media-skills/pika-video.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- medium Excessive Agency · line 160 Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00161 | $0.04699 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00081 | $0.02350 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00032 | $0.00940 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00016 | $0.00470 |
Grade A, and why
pika-video 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 9d ago.
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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 304 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Pika video generation
Pika (the company was branded "Pika Labs" during its Discord beta; the product and domain are now pika.art) is a generative-video platform whose distinctive value is effect-driven, short-form, stylized clips and generative edits to real footage, not photoreal long-form filmmaking. Treat this skill as the guide for choosing Pika, driving its specific tools, and knowing when to route elsewhere.
All volatile facts below (model names, prices, credits, limits, feature availability) were verified 2026-07-10 against the cited sources. Pika ships frequently; re-verify version and pricing before quoting them to a user.
When to use Pika vs. something else
Reach for Pika when the job is (production heuristic):
- Playful / meme / social short-form: TikTok, Reels, Shorts, ad-grade hooks.
- Applying a transformation effect to an existing image or clip — inflate, melt, explode, squash, crush, "cake-ify," etc. (Pikaffects). This is Pika's signature and is hard to reproduce cleanly elsewhere.
- Editing real footage generatively: adding an object/character into a clip (Pikadditions), or swapping an object/background while preserving motion and lighting (Pikaswaps).
- Keyframe transitions / morphs between 2–5 stills (Pikaframes).
- Talking-avatar / lip sync from a still + audio (Pikaformance).
- Fast iteration where a stylized 5–10s clip at 720p/1080p is the deliverable.
Route to a higher-fidelity model instead when the job needs (heuristic):
- Photoreal humans holding identity across a longer take, accurate hands, or legible on-screen text baked into the render.
- Sustained (multi-take, >~25s) coherent narrative from a single generation.
- Rigorous physical simulation (fluids, crowds, reflections) at documentary fidelity.
In those cases Pika will often "invent" motion badly, drift faces, or garble text. Named competitors change too fast to rank here; the decision rule is the capability profile above, not a fixed leaderboard.
What ships with it
1 file 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.
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 304 lines · 161 tokens per session scan A 5bf18c83dfcb
pika-video is a skill published in the GitHub repository calesthio/generative-media-skills (171 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 161 tokens to every session and 4,699 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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