h3-video

h3-video is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from open-video-ai/open-video. It costs 103 tokens per session (3,380 once invoked), scanned C, original, Apache-2.0.

A local video-generation skill called OpenVideo that uses the MiniMax H3 model. It supports text-to-video, image-to-video, and first-last-frame video generation through a local setup.

In plain words
What is it for?
Install or update OpenVideo, check its status, and generate videos from text, images, or specified first and last frames.
Why use it?
It gives an agent a defined way to install, configure, and run OpenVideo with the required model files and settings. This reduces confusion between the OpenVideo product and the separate ComfyUI engine it may use.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is mkdir -p logs && cd ComfyUI && nohup ../venv/bin/python main.py \.

Good fit Install or update OpenVideo, check its status, and generate videos from text, images, or specified first and last frames.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/open-video-ai/open-video
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/open-video-ai/open-video/h3-video

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 103 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,380 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 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 $0.00103 $0.03380
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.01690
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00676
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00338

Measured 12d ago against content hash 8383e461a3b4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

h3-video scanned grade C with 2 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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

curl -fsSL https://open-video.ai/install | bash # Linux/macOS

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -sf http://127.0.0.1:8188/system_stats || (
skill/h3-video/SKILL.md · 307 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 307 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OpenVideo skill · v0.0.1

Brand: OpenVideo (always lead with this). MiniMax H3 is the model OpenVideo drives.

Job: use OpenVideo so an agent produces good product video, not a random diffusion click. Quality comes from prompt craft + correct mode + validated settings, not secret samplers.

0. Paths (env-first)

Recommended sibling layout (any parent dir name; no machine-absolute paths):

parent/
├── open-video/       # THIS product — CLI, backends, skills  ← work here
└── lab/              # ComfyUI + weights (not git)
What Path / env
Product root (CLI, skills) $OPEN_VIDEO_ROOT (this checkout)
Install / pull / run From product root: ./scripts/install.sh, python -m open_video …
Lab engine + weights $OPEN_VIDEO_LAB / $H3_LAB (sibling lab/ with ComfyUI + h3_models/)
Weights env export OPEN_VIDEO_MODELS=$H3_LAB/h3_models
ComfyUI URL export OPEN_VIDEO_COMFYUI=http://127.0.0.1:8188 (default)

Resolve product root (never hardcode a machine path):

# Prefer env, else directory of this skill → repo root
export OPEN_VIDEO_ROOT="${OPEN_VIDEO_ROOT:-$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/../.." 2>/dev/null && pwd)}"
cd "$OPEN_VIDEO_ROOT"

Lab harness (same ComfyUI) when you keep a sibling runtime:

export OPEN_VIDEO_LAB="${OPEN_VIDEO_LAB:-$OPEN_VIDEO_ROOT/../lab}"
export H3_LAB="${H3_LAB:-$OPEN_VIDEO_LAB}"
export OPEN_VIDEO_MODELS="${OPEN_VIDEO_MODELS:-$H3_LAB/h3_models}"

Product = open-video/ checkout. lab/ is runtime only — never the product root.


1. Quality hierarchy (what actually moves the needle)

Rank Lever Rule
1 3-field prompt Official structure; concrete visible/audible detail; camera type+amplitude+speed; dialogue in <d>[lang]…</d>
2 Mode T2V / I2V / FL2VA chosen correctly from inputs
3 Resolution / steps 1344×768, 20 steps, res_multistep + simple (defaults in harness)
4 Quant INT8 on 5090-class; lower VRAM → recommend-quant (nf4/w4/int8+lowvram)
5 Duration 5–10 s sweet spot (max 15 s / shot); multi-shot via cut times or open-video director skill
6 Review Watch / extract frames; fix prompt; re-run. Dual vision gate only when shipping

Read the full file on GitHub · 307 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. 12d ago First seen · 307 lines · 103 tokens per session scan C 8383e461a3b4

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h3-video is a skill published in the GitHub repository open-video-ai/open-video (117 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 103 tokens to every session and 3,380 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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