venice-video-harness: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/venice-agent-guide/SKILL.md

venice-agent-guide is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jordanurbs/venice-video-harness. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,895 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of operating rules for using the Venice Video command-line tool from an AI coding agent. It explains how to move through video projects and episodes safely.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when an AI agent needs to create or manage video projects with Venice Video, check the current pipeline stage, find the next command, and keep track of queued renders.
Why use it?
It helps prevent agents from running stages in the wrong order or losing track of paid video renders. It also avoids relying on settings chosen by a person in a graphical interface.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: mentions subagents; positional $N argument; mentions Claude Code.

This is jordanurbs/venice-video-harness's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on venice-video-harness itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything venice-video-harness configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to jordanurbs/venice-video-harness. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jordanurbs/venice-video-harness/main/.agents/skills/venice-agent-guide/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jordanurbs/venice-video-harness

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,895 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00000 $0.01895
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00948
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00379
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00189

Measured 5d ago against content hash 126522c31fab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

venice-agent-guide 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 5d 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.

.agents/skills/venice-agent-guide/SKILL.md · 55 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Venice Video Harness — Agent Operating Guide

Description

The core rules for driving the venice-video CLI from a coding agent (Hermes, OpenClaw, Cursor, Claude Code, and others). This is the ~80/20 subset of AGENTS.md — the rules whose absence loses money or produces unusable output. It mirrors venice-video agent-guide (the same text ships inside the binary) and the full rules live in AGENTS.md. Read this before running any workflow.

Keep this in sync with src/agent/guide.ts; if a rule changes in one, change it in the other.

Find the next step, do not guess

  • venice-video pipeline --json lists the ordered stages, their gates, and the command that advances each.
  • venice-video status -p <project> --json reports where a project stands and the exact next command.
  • Always pass -p <project> (and -e <episode>) explicitly. Do not rely on a selection a human may have set — a daemon- or GUI-launched agent has an arbitrary working directory, so also set HARNESS_WORKSPACE to a fixed directory.

Money is spent at queue time

  • Venice bills when a render is queued, not when it downloads. A lost queue id is money already spent.
  • Every queued render is recorded to pending-jobs.json before the first poll. If a command is interrupted, re-run the same command with the same output path — that re-attaches to the paid job instead of paying again.
  • A killed render (for example a command timeout) is usually still running and billed. Do not treat a timeout as a failed render and retry it. Re-attach.
  • Inspect in-flight work with venice-video queue --json. Only queue clear a record you know is dead.

Long renders need background invocation

  • generate-videos, assemble-episode, produce-episode, finish, and upscale run 3–10 minutes.
  • Runners cap foreground commands (Hermes defaults to 180s, hard-caps at 600s). Run these in the background with a completion notification, not in the foreground.
  • A foreground timeout kills the process but not the Venice job — see the billing rule above.

Read the full file on GitHub · 55 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. 5d ago Changed · +1 lines 126522c31fab
  2. 6d ago Changed · +8 lines c95682eed9ac
  3. 12d ago First seen · 46 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 367e2097f2a3

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venice-agent-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository jordanurbs/venice-video-harness (30 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,895 tokens. 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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