text-to-video-direct

text-to-video-direct is a skill for Claude Code from danielrosehill/Claude-AI-Video-Producer-Plugin. It costs 41 tokens per session (401 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A video workflow that creates a clip directly from a text prompt in one model call. It does not first create a still image.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for exploratory footage, B-roll, and motion-heavy scenes, then review the clip and accept it, retry it, or switch to an image-first workflow.
Why use it?
It is suited to quick exploration and motion-focused shots where exact framing is less important. It avoids extra setup when a fixed opening image is unnecessary.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

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

Good fit Use it for exploratory footage, B-roll, and motion-heavy scenes, then review the clip and accept it, retry it, or switch to an image-first workflow.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/danielrosehill/claude-ai-video-producer-plugin/text-to-video-direct
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add danielrosehill/Claude-AI-Video-Producer-Plugin --skill text-to-video-direct
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 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 401 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 $0.00041 $0.00401
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00200
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00080
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00040

Measured 12d ago against content hash f76a8f171da7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

text-to-video-direct 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/text-to-video-direct/SKILL.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

Direct Text-to-Video Pipeline

Single model call from a text prompt to a clip. No intermediate still.

When to use

  • Exploratory or B-roll shots where you don't need to lock the opening frame.
  • Motion-heavy shots where the model's interpretation of motion matters more than composition.
  • Faster iteration when image-then-animate is overkill.

When NOT to use

  • Character-specific shots needing visual consistency — direct text-to-video drifts heavily across takes. Use text-to-image-to-video instead.
  • Talking heads — use voice-to-lip-sync over a generated character clip.

Inputs

  • Shot brief from scripts/storyboards/NN-*.md.
  • Text-to-video model from brief/tools-and-models.md.

Steps

  1. Compose prompt. Combine visual seed + motion description + style/vibe. Show to user.
  2. Generate. Call the configured text-to-video model. Save to generation/text-to-video/NN-shortname-vN.mp4. Save prompt + model + parameters to generation/prompts/NN-shortname-vN.md. Log it.
  3. Surface. Show clip. Offer retry, accept, or switch to text-to-image-to-video for tighter control.
  4. Accept. Copy to clips/raw/ and suggest /promote-take.

Common gotchas

  • Cost per retry is high. Text-to-video models are typically the most expensive call in any pipeline. Iterate the prompt carefully before each call — don't just hit retry.
  • Aspect / duration locked at gen time. Most models don't let you crop or extend after the fact cleanly. Set both correctly per the brief.
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 · 37 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A f76a8f171da7

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text-to-video-direct is a skill published in the GitHub repository danielrosehill/Claude-AI-Video-Producer-Plugin (4 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 401 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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