topaz-video-enhancement

topaz-video-enhancement is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from calesthio/generative-media-skills. It costs 174 tokens per session (5,996 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to Topaz Labs tools for improving existing video and images. Enhancement means repairing or reconstructing visible detail in footage, rather than creating entirely new content.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to upscale, denoise, sharpen, deinterlace, stabilize, deblur, colorize, convert SDR video to HDR, change frame rates, create slow motion, or automate these jobs through an API.
Why use it?
It helps developers choose suitable processing for blurry, noisy, compressed, interlaced, unstable, old, or low-resolution media while understanding that enhancement cannot recover detail that was never captured.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to upscale, denoise, sharpen, deinterlace, stabilize, deblur, colorize, convert SDR video to HDR, change frame rates, create slow motion, or automate these jobs through an API.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/calesthio/generative-media-skills/topaz-video-enhancement
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 calesthio/generative-media-skills --skill topaz-video-enhancement
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/calesthio/generative-media-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 174 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,996 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high

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 →

  • high Anti-Refusal · line 266
    Skill instructs the agent to omit warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Stripping safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.
    Fix: Remove instructions that suppress warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Let the agent surface safety-relevant caveats to the user.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 207
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00174 $0.05996
Opus 5 $0.00087 $0.02998
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.01199
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00600

Measured 9d ago against content hash c6afaabd7e07, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

topaz-video-enhancement 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.

skills/providers/video-enhancement/topaz-video-enhancement/SKILL.md · 378 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 378 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Topaz Labs video (and image) enhancement

Topaz Labs makes AI enhancement/restoration models delivered three ways: the desktop apps (Topaz Video AI, Gigapixel, Photo AI), and the Topaz Platform REST API (api.topazlabs.com) which exposes the same model families for programmatic, batch, and pipeline use. This skill is about applying the models to solve concrete footage problems and about driving the API inside an automated pipeline. When a task is a one-off manual cleanup, the desktop app is usually faster; when enhancement is a repeatable stage in a generate → enhance → deliver pipeline, use the API.

Enhancement is a repair and finishing operation, not a creation operation. It cannot add information that was never plausibly there; it can only reconstruct, interpolate, or invent detail. Every model on this page trades some fidelity for some apparent quality, and the whole discipline is choosing the trade that matches the footage and the deliverable.

Verification note: model names, model codes/slugs, parameters, limits, and pricing below were verified against Topaz's developer documentation on 2026-07-10. These are volatile — Topaz ships new model versions frequently (the -N suffix in a code is a version). Before hard-coding a code in a pipeline, confirm it against the live Available Models reference / OpenAPI schema (developer.topazlabs.com/reference). Codes are used in API filters[].model; the desktop app shows friendly names.

When this skill applies (and when it does not)

Applies:

  • Upscaling video to a higher resolution (SD→HD, HD→4K/8K).
  • Cleaning AI-generated video that came out soft, low-res, flickery, or plastic.
  • Restoring old/archival footage: film grain, compression, interlacing, low res.
  • Denoising, sharpening, deblurring, deinterlacing, stabilizing.
  • Frame-rate conversion and slow-motion (frame interpolation).
  • SDR→HDR conversion, black-and-white colorization, foreground object removal.
  • Enhancing stills (Gigapixel/Photo models via the Image API) as a secondary need.
  • Designing the enhancement stage of a "generate low-res, then upscale" pipeline.

Read the full file on GitHub · 378 lines

Files

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.

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. 9d ago First seen · 378 lines · 174 tokens per session scan A c6afaabd7e07

Subscribe to this mod's changes

topaz-video-enhancement is a skill published in the GitHub repository calesthio/generative-media-skills (171 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 174 tokens to every session and 5,996 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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