veo-use

veo-use is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cnemri/google-genai-skills. It costs 74 tokens per session (663 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for creating and editing videos with Google's Veo models. It supports generating videos from text or images, using reference images, extending videos, and changing selected areas with a mask.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to make text-to-video or image-to-video clips, guide a scene with reference images, extend footage, or remove and modify objects with inpainting.
Why use it?
It brings several video-generation and editing tasks into one workflow instead of requiring separate tools for each type of change.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to make text-to-video or image-to-video clips, guide a scene with reference images, extend footage, or remove and modify objects with inpainting.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cnemri/google-genai-skills/veo-use
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 cnemri/google-genai-skills --skill veo-use
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cnemri/google-genai-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 663 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 $0.00074 $0.00663
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00331
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00133
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00066

Measured 12d ago against content hash 49663b389e27, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

veo-use 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 5 executable files (scripts/edit_video.py, scripts/extend_video.py, scripts/image_to_video.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/veo-use/SKILL.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Veo Use

Use this skill to generate and edit videos using Google's Veo models (veo-3.1 and veo-2.0).

This skill uses portable Python scripts managed by uv.

Prerequisites

Ensure you have one of the following authentication methods configured in your environment:

  1. API Key:

    • GOOGLE_API_KEY or GEMINI_API_KEY
  2. Vertex AI:

    • GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT
    • GOOGLE_CLOUD_LOCATION
    • GOOGLE_GENAI_USE_VERTEXAI=1

Usage

1. Text to Video

Generate a video purely from a text description.

uv run skills/veo-use/scripts/text_to_video.py "A cinematic drone shot of a futuristic city" --output city.mp4

2. Image to Video

Generate a video starting from a static image context.

uv run skills/veo-use/scripts/image_to_video.py "Zoom out from the flower" --image start.png --output flower.mp4

3. Reference to Video

Use specific asset images (subjects, products) to guide generation.

uv run skills/veo-use/scripts/reference_to_video.py "A man walking on the moon" --reference-image man.png --output moon_walk.mp4

4. Edit Video (Inpainting)

Modify existing videos using masks.

Modes:

  • REMOVE: Remove dynamic object.
  • REMOVE_STATIC: Remove static object (watermark).
  • INSERT: Insert new object (requires --prompt).
uv run skills/veo-use/scripts/edit_video.py --video input.mp4 --mask mask.png --mode INSERT --prompt "A flying car" --output edited.mp4

5. Extend Video

Extend the duration of an existing video clip.

uv run skills/veo-use/scripts/extend_video.py --video clip.mp4 --prompt "The car flies away into the sunset" --duration 6 --output extended.mp4

Common Options

  • --model: Default veo-3.1-generate-001.
  • --resolution: 1080p (default), 720p, 4k.
  • --aspect-ratio: 16:9 (default), 9:16.
  • --duration: 6 (default), 4, 8.

References

Before running scripts, review the reference guides for prompting tips and best practices.

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 12d ago First seen · 84 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 49663b389e27

Subscribe to this mod's changes

veo-use is a skill published in the GitHub repository cnemri/google-genai-skills (126 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 663 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.

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