recommend-model

recommend-model is a skill for Claude Code from danielrosehill/Claude-AI-Video-Producer-Plugin. It costs 128 tokens per session (1,302 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A conversational tool for choosing an AI model for image, video, audio, or related generation work across several model providers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you need a model recommendation for tasks such as text-to-image, text-to-video, image-to-video, lip-sync, voice generation, upscaling, or interpolation.
Why use it?
It narrows model choices using practical preferences such as workload, quality, speed, cost, budget, output requirements, and provider access.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the ai-video-producer plugin — 11 skills, 11 commands, 7 agents, 3 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it when you need a model recommendation for tasks such as text-to-image, text-to-video, image-to-video, lip-sync, voice generation, upscaling, or interpolation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/danielrosehill/claude-ai-video-producer-plugin/recommend-model
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 danielrosehill/Claude-AI-Video-Producer-Plugin --skill recommend-model
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danielrosehill/Claude-AI-Video-Producer-Plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-video-producer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 11 commands, 7 agents, 3 MCP servers.

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Per session 128 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,302 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 $0.00128 $0.01302
Opus 5 $0.00064 $0.00651
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00260
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00130

Measured 12d ago against content hash 34400acaed2f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

recommend-model 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.

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/recommend-model/SKILL.md · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Recommend model

Conversational model picker. Use this when the user asks "what should I use for X" or "find me a cheap/good/fast model for X". For deep written research, use model-researcher instead.

Step 1 — Capture preferences

Ask only the questions you don't already know from brief/creative-brief.md:

  • Workload: text-to-image, text-to-video, image-to-video, lip-sync, voice/TTS, upscale, interpolate, other.
  • Priority: quality / speed / cost (pick one as primary, one as secondary).
  • Budget ceiling: per-output cap (e.g. "$0.20 per clip"), or "no cap, just tell me".
  • Output specs: resolution, aspect ratio, duration (for video).
  • Hard requirements: e.g. needs audio, needs >10s, needs lip-sync, needs photoreal faces, needs commercial license.
  • Provider preference: fal / Replicate / WaveSpeed / MiniMax / any (default: any). Only suggest providers whose key is present in ~/.config/ai-video-producer/.env.

Keep this short — one batched message, not five round trips. Infer from the brief where possible.

Step 2 — Query providers

Replicate (use the bundled MCP):

  • mcp__plugin_ai-video-producer_replicate__search_models with a query like the workload ("image-to-video", "lipsync", "upscaler").
  • For top hits, call mcp__plugin_ai-video-producer_replicate__get_models for pricing/hardware metadata, and list_models_versions if a specific version is needed.
  • Pricing on Replicate is usually per-second of GPU time × hardware tier — convert to per-output by multiplying by typical run time stated on the model page.

fal.ai (hosted MCP exists for catalogue, but is thin — prefer web fetch):

  • Use WebFetch against https://fal.ai/models?categories=<category> and individual model pages (e.g. https://fal.ai/models/fal-ai/<slug>).
  • fal usually quotes per-second-of-output or per-megapixel — use what the page states.
  • Execution path is runners/fal_run.mjs — confirm the model id matches the fal-ai/<slug> form the runner expects.

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 lines

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 · 75 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 34400acaed2f

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recommend-model is a skill published in the GitHub repository danielrosehill/Claude-AI-Video-Producer-Plugin (4 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 128 tokens to every session and 1,302 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-31.

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