generate-video

generate-video is a skill for Claude Code from indranilbanerjee/socialforge. It costs 113 tokens per session (1,710 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided workflow for creating short videos through five stages: concept, opening image, closing image, motion, and final rendering.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for image-to-video work, animated images, short social posts, reels, and other video assets when the required brand and service setup is available.
Why use it?
It breaks video creation into reviewable steps so the user can approve each stage before generation credits are used.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the socialforge plugin — 20 skills, 25 commands, 5 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it for image-to-video work, animated images, short social posts, reels, and other video assets when the required brand and service setup is available.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/indranilbanerjee/socialforge/generate-video
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add indranilbanerjee/socialforge --skill generate-video
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/indranilbanerjee/socialforge

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install socialforge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills, 25 commands, 5 agents.

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Per session 113 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,710 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 $0.00113 $0.01710
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.00855
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00342
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00171

Measured 10d ago against content hash f43fc0ffab71, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

generate-video 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 10d 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/generate-video/SKILL.md · 130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/socialforge:generate-video — Video Production Kit

Generate video production assets through a 5-stage human-in-the-loop pipeline. Each stage requires user approval before advancing.

Context efficiency

Asset-heavy skill. Grep before Read the asset catalog (${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA}/socialforge/brands/<brand>/asset-index.json) — never list the asset directory. Reference generated images / videos by path, not by loading metadata. Brand profile loads once per session.

Prerequisites

  • Credentials must be configured via /socialforge:setup:
    • Vertex AI (Nano Banana Pro / Gemini 3 Pro Image, resolved via latest-image-google) — used for first-frame and last-frame keyframe generation
    • WaveSpeed API — used for image-to-video generation via Kling v3.0 Pro
  • Brand profile must be active (/socialforge:switch-brand if needed)
  • Calendar must be parsed (/socialforge:parse-calendar) with video posts identified

The 5-Stage Pipeline

Stage 1: Video Concept + Script (no API call)

Claude generates 2-3 video concept ideas based on the post brief, brand voice, and platform requirements. Each concept includes:

  • Working title and hook
  • Visual narrative arc (opening, middle, close)
  • Suggested duration and pacing
  • Tone and style direction

The user picks one concept (or requests refinements). Then fill the script scaffold (generate_script in generate_video.py) from the chosen concept and the post's actual brief, in the brand's voice — every [FILL] replaced, no placeholder survives into Stage 2. The scaffold enforces the structure; this pass supplies the craft, under four rules the scaffold carries with it:

  1. Hook first, never the logo. The open earns attention with the single most arresting thing the brief supports; the brand mark lives as the corner watermark and in the end card. Three seconds of logo reveal is the classic retention killer this pipeline used to scaffold by default.
  2. Payoff per scene. Every scene's payoff field states what the viewer has gained by the time it ends. A beat that only sets up the next beat is where viewers leave — give it a payoff or fold it.
  3. The pairing rule. The hook's text overlay and the post's caption (written by adapt-copy) do different jobs and never echo. Check against the adapted copy if it already exists for this post.
  4. Compliance before credits. Run the filled script's narration and overlay text through compliance_check.py BEFORE Stage 2 — a banned phrase caught in a script costs nothing; caught in a rendered video it costs the whole generation chain. Claims in narration follow the same rules as claims in copy: sourced or absent.

Read the full file on GitHub · 130 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. 10d ago First seen · 130 lines · 113 tokens per session scan A f43fc0ffab71

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generate-video is a skill published in the GitHub repository indranilbanerjee/socialforge (37 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 113 tokens to every session and 1,710 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 2026-08-30.

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