vidu-video

vidu-video is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from calesthio/generative-media-skills. It costs 93 tokens per session (7,713 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A practical guide for using ShengShu’s Vidu Open Platform, an API for generating videos from text, images, frames, and other media. It also explains how its asynchronous jobs and separate product surfaces work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan or integrate text-to-video, image-to-video, start/end-frame transitions, multi-subject references, and media-based video generation.
Why use it?
It helps prevent requests from using the wrong model, endpoint, pricing rules, or product, and adds approval steps before paid work or private uploads.

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 plan or integrate text-to-video, image-to-video, start/end-frame transitions, multi-subject references, and media-based video generation.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote 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.

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README.md
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Per session 93 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,713 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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: 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 Data Exfiltration · line 217
    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 $0.00093 $0.07713
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.03857
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.01543
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00771

Measured 9d ago against content hash 093aa22ac2d3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vidu-video scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

import datetime, hashlib, json, os, pathlib, sys, urllib.error, urllib.request
skills/providers/video-generation/vidu-video/SKILL.md · 385 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 385 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Vidu video

Use this skill to design a production request or integration for the Vidu Open Platform API. Default to dry-run planning. Never submit a paid generation, upload private media, cancel a task, or download a result until the operator has approved the exact provider, endpoint, model, inputs, request digest, maximum charge, storage destination, and disclosure plan.

This document was verified against first-party public documentation on 2026-07-10. Models, prices, accepted fields, policies, and availability are volatile; re-open the linked endpoint and pricing pages immediately before execution.

Keep the surfaces separate

  • Open Platform API: https://api.vidu.com, API keys, organization-level limits, asynchronous tasks, and API credits. This is the surface covered here.
  • Vidu consumer product: https://www.vidu.com and its subscription/plan credits. Do not assume its credits, features, watermark behavior, or terms apply to the API.
  • Vidu-S1 (Beta): a separate interactive digital-human product using HTTP session setup, AliRTC media, and WebSocket control. It is not a Q3/Q2 clip model. Its public page currently mixes “1 minute to 2 hours” marketing language with a 600-second session maximum. Its pricing section separately says 3 S1 credits per 2 seconds, lists a 0.03125 credit unit price, deducts every 6 seconds, rounds to 2-second intervals, and requires at least 45 credits to create a session. Do not revalue those statements using the clip API's $0.005 credit price without written confirmation.
  • S1 documentation conflict: Step 3 says browser WebSocket authentication belongs in the URL query because browsers cannot set custom headers, while the page's Important Notes says it must be in an authorization header. Treat this as unresolved. Confirm the current transport with Vidu before implementation, never place a bearer URL in logs/analytics/referrers, and do not infer a secure browser design from the sample alone.
  • China host: the S1 page documents api.vidu.cn for China and api.vidu.com internationally. The ordinary clip endpoints documented here use api.vidu.com; do not infer compute residency from the hostname.

Read the full file on GitHub · 385 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 · 385 lines · 93 tokens per session scan A 093aa22ac2d3

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vidu-video is a skill published in the GitHub repository calesthio/generative-media-skills (171 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 93 tokens to every session and 7,713 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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