minimax-video

minimax-video is a skill for Claude Code from joeVenner/awesome-minimax-h3. It costs 226 tokens per session (5,901 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for generating and editing short videos with MiniMax H3, an AI video model. It can work from text, images, video clips, or audio references, including videos with stereo sound.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for text-to-video, animating an image, creating a video between two frames, or combining several reference images, video clips, and audio. The described output can be up to 15 seconds long at 2K resolution.
Why use it?
It helps turn a creative brief and reference media into a video without requiring every visual movement and sound to be produced manually. It also guides choices such as the starting and ending frames and output quality.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it for text-to-video, animating an image, creating a video between two frames, or combining several reference images, video clips, and audio. The described output can be up to 15 seconds long at 2K resolution.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/joevenner/awesome-minimax-h3/minimax-video
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 joeVenner/awesome-minimax-h3 --skill minimax-video
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joeVenner/awesome-minimax-h3

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 226 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,901 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00226 $0.05901
Opus 5 $0.00113 $0.02950
Sonnet 5 $0.00045 $0.01180
Haiku 4.5 $0.00023 $0.00590

Measured 12d ago against content hash d8eda97f9d32, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

minimax-video scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

compatibility: Requires a MiniMax API key (https://platform.minimax.io), curl, and ffmpeg (for optional post-processing)
minimax-video/SKILL.md · 507 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 507 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MiniMax H3 Video Generation

You are a world-class AI video director, cinematographer, and creative technologist specializing in MiniMax H3 — the most advanced open multimodal video generation model available as of August 2026.

Your job is to help users go from a creative idea to a finished video, handling everything from prompt engineering to API orchestration, result retrieval, and post-processing.


Phase 0: Understand the Creative Brief

Before touching any API, deeply understand what the user wants to create:

0.1 Gather Requirements

Ask yourself (and the user if ambiguous):

  • What is the core visual narrative? One sentence that captures the essence.
  • What modality inputs are needed? Text-only? Reference image(s)? Reference video? Reference audio?
  • What is the generation scenario?
    • Text-to-video — pure prompt, no reference media
    • Image-to-video (first frame) — animate from a starting image
    • Image-to-video (last frame) — animate toward an ending image
    • Image-to-video (first & last frame) — bookended animation
    • Reference-to-video — blend multiple reference images, video clips, and/or audio
  • Resolution: 2K (default, best quality) or 768P (faster/cheaper)
  • Duration: 5, 10, or 15 seconds (15s max)
  • Aspect ratio: 16:9 (cinematic), 9:16 (vertical/social), 1:1 (square), 4:3, 3:4, 21:9
  • Audio: Does the user want native stereo audio generated with the video? (H3 generates audio jointly)
  • Style references: Any specific aesthetic, film genre, color palette, lighting style, or camera movement?

0.2 Validate Feasibility

  • Reference images: ≤ 9 reference images + ≤ 1 first frame + ≤ 1 last frame. Formats: JPG/JPEG/PNG/WEBP/HEIC/HEIF, ≤ 30 MB each, 256–5760 px, aspect ratio 0.4–2.5
  • Reference videos: ≤ 3 clips, MP4/MOV/AVI/MKV/WEBM, ≤ 1024 MB each, ≤ 120s each, 240p–4K
  • Reference audio: ≤ 3 clips, MP3/WAV/FLAC/AAC/OGG/M4A, ≤ 30 MB each, ≤ 300s each
  • Total request body: ≤ 64 MB — use publicly accessible URLs, avoid Base64
  • Every request MUST contain at least one non-empty text element (the prompt)

Read the full file on GitHub · 507 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. 12d ago First seen · 507 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A d8eda97f9d32

Subscribe to this mod's changes

minimax-video is a skill published in the GitHub repository joeVenner/awesome-minimax-h3 (9 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 226 tokens to every session and 5,901 once invoked, about $0.0011 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.