aliyun-emo

aliyun-emo is a skill for Codex from cinience/alicloud-skills. It costs 49 tokens per session (709 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating talking-head videos from a portrait image and speech audio with Alibaba Cloud’s EMO models.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps prepare and submit expressive avatar-video jobs, including choosing an expression level and recording request results.
Why use it?
It handles the required portrait check and request details needed before generating an expressive video.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit It helps prepare and submit expressive avatar-video jobs, including choosing an expression level and recording request results.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cinience/alicloud-skills/aliyun-emo
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add cinience/alicloud-skills --skill aliyun-emo
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cinience/alicloud-skills

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 709 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: 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 Rogue Agent · line 14
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
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 $0.00049 $0.00709
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00284
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00142
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00071

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 5180ec8d8e36, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aliyun-emo 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 2mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/prepare_emo_request.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/ai/video/aliyun-emo/SKILL.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Category: provider

Model Studio EMO

Validation

mkdir -p output/aliyun-emo
python -m py_compile skills/ai/video/aliyun-emo/scripts/prepare_emo_request.py && echo "py_compile_ok" > output/aliyun-emo/validate.txt

Pass criteria: command exits 0 and output/aliyun-emo/validate.txt is generated.

Output And Evidence

  • Save normalized request payloads, detection boxes, and task polling snapshots under output/aliyun-emo/.
  • Record the chosen style_level and the exact face_bbox / ext_bbox.

Use EMO when the input is a portrait image and speech audio, and you need a non-Wan expressive talking-head result.

Critical model names

Use these exact model strings:

  • emo-v1-detect
  • emo-v1

Selection guidance:

  • Run image detection first to obtain face_bbox and ext_bbox.
  • Use emo-v1 only after detection succeeds.

Prerequisites

  • China mainland (Beijing) only.
  • Set DASHSCOPE_API_KEY in your environment, or add dashscope_api_key to ~/.alibabacloud/credentials.
  • Input files must be public HTTP/HTTPS URLs.

Normalized interface (video.emo)

Detect Request

  • model (string, optional): default emo-v1-detect
  • image_url (string, required)

Generate Request

  • model (string, optional): default emo-v1
  • image_url (string, required)
  • audio_url (string, required)
  • face_bbox (array, required)
  • ext_bbox (array, required)
  • style_level (string, optional): normal, calm, or active

Response

  • task_id (string)
  • task_status (string)
  • video_url (string, when finished)

Quick start

python skills/ai/video/aliyun-emo/scripts/prepare_emo_request.py \
  --image-url "https://example.com/portrait.png" \
  --audio-url "https://example.com/speech.mp3" \
  --face-bbox 302,286,610,593 \
  --ext-bbox 71,9,840,778 \
  --style-level active

Operational guidance

  • Do not invent face_bbox or ext_bbox; use the detection API output.
  • ext_bbox ratio determines output format: 1:1 yields 512x512, 3:4 yields 512x704.
  • Keep the input portrait clear and front-facing for better expression quality.
  • EMO is portrait-focused; for full-scene human videos use other skills instead.

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 2mo ago First seen · 88 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 5180ec8d8e36

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aliyun-emo is a skill published in the GitHub repository cinience/alicloud-skills (396 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 709 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-30.

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