video-shortform

video-shortform is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nexu-io/open-design. It costs 102 tokens per session (1,139 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for generating very short videos, usually 3–10 seconds long, from one clear visual idea. It covers product reveals, motion teasers, ambient loops, and motion-design cards.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create short MP4 clips with video-generation models or render animated title cards and product interstitials from HTML.
Why use it?
It helps avoid overloaded video prompts by planning one subject, camera movement, lighting setup, action, and sound for each clip.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to create short MP4 clips with video-generation models or render animated title cards and product interstitials from HTML.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nexu-io/open-design/video-shortform
About the project

OpenDesign is an open-source, local-first desktop app that lets coding agents create prototypes, dashboards, slide decks, images, video, and design systems as exportable files. It is used by people working with agent runtimes such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and DeepSeek Harness. The catalogue add-ons extend the OpenDesign workflow with skills, instructions, commands, and plugins.

nexu-io/open-design · 95,624 stars · on GitHub · open-design.ai

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 nexu-io/open-design --skill video-shortform
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 102 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,139 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
  • Snyk pass 7 Sept 2026
  • 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 $0.00102 $0.01139
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00570
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00228
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00114

Measured 4d ago against content hash b1f8d998c755, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

video-shortform 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 4d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

design-templates/video-shortform/SKILL.md · 131 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Video Shortform Skill

Short-form (≤ 10s) is the sweet spot for current text-to-video models — they're great at one shot with one idea, weaker at multi-cut narratives. Plan one shot per call.

Special case: hyperframes-html is not a photoreal text-to-video model. It's a local HTML-to-MP4 renderer. For that model, do not roleplay cinematography or "real-world" camera physics. Treat the brief as a motion design card / title-frame / product interstitial, ask at most one clarifying question, then dispatch immediately.

Resource map

video-shortform/
├── SKILL.md
└── example.html

Workflow

Step 0 — Read the project metadata

videoModel, videoLength (seconds), videoAspect. These are hard-locks — clamp the prompt to whatever the chosen model supports (Seedance 2 caps at 10s; Kling 4 supports up to 10s + image-to-video; Veo 3 supports 8s with audio).

Step 1 — Plan the shot

Write the shotlist BEFORE calling the model:

Slot Content
Subject What's in frame?
Camera Static / pan / push-in / orbit?
Lighting Key direction + temperature
Motion What moves, at what pace? Subject motion vs camera motion.
Sound Ambient bed? (only if the model supports audio)

Normally, show this to the user as a one-sentence plan before dispatching — they can redirect cheaply.

For hyperframes-html, skip the extra pre-dispatch narration once the user has answered the discovery form. Collapse the plan into the actual generation prompt and dispatch immediately.

Step 2 — Compose the prompt

Use the format the upstream model prefers (Seedance: motion + camera + mood; Kling: subject + camera + style; Veo: subject + cinematography + sound). Bind the project's videoAspect and videoLength directly to the API parameters; never put them in prose.

For hyperframes-html, write a concise motion-design brief instead of a camera-realism prompt. Focus on subject, layout, palette, motion character, and overall tone. Do not spend turns narrating environment checks, missing side files, or "I am about to dispatch" status updates.

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 4d ago Changed · +2 lines b1f8d998c755
  2. 9d ago First seen · 129 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A a14393165bd3

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video-shortform is a skill published in the GitHub repository nexu-io/open-design (95,624 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 1,139 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-03.