veo-prompting

veo-prompting is a skill for Claude Code from u2n4/gemini-media-mcp. It costs 108 tokens per session (4,336 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for writing professional prompts for VEO 3.1, an AI system that generates or edits short videos. It covers directing shots, sound, duration, framing, reference images, and video extensions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating text-to-video clips, animating an image, transitioning between frames, or extending an existing VEO 3.1 video.
Why use it?
It turns a rough video idea into clearer directions that the video system can follow more consistently.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the veo-prompting plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it when creating text-to-video clips, animating an image, transitioning between frames, or extending an existing VEO 3.1 video.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/u2n4/gemini-media-mcp/veo-prompting
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add u2n4/gemini-media-mcp --skill veo-prompting
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/u2n4/gemini-media-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install veo-prompting, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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Per session 108 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,336 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 $0.00108 $0.04336
Opus 5 $0.00054 $0.02168
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00867
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00434

Measured 11d ago against content hash b21b6b25805e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

veo-prompting 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 11d 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.

plugins/veo-prompting/skills/veo-prompting/SKILL.md · 335 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 335 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

VEO 3.1 Professional Prompting Mastery

When to Use This Skill

Activate this skill EVERY TIME before calling any VEO tool:

  • veo:veo_generate_video — Text-to-Video
  • veo:veo_image_to_video — Image-to-Video
  • veo:veo_interpolate_video — First/Last Frame transitions
  • veo:veo_extend_video — Extend existing clips

Read and apply these techniques to transform any video request into a cinematic-grade prompt.


Model Capabilities & Constraints

Parameter Options
Resolution 720p, 1080p (1080p requires 8s duration)
Duration 4, 6, or 8 seconds per clip
Aspect Ratio 16:9 (landscape), 9:16 (portrait)
Audio Native synchronized audio (dialogue, SFX, ambient, music)
Reference Images Up to 3 images for character/style consistency
Frame Control First frame, last frame, or both for transitions
Extension ~7s per extension, max 148s total (720p only)

Key Behaviors

  • VEO interprets prompts like a film crew — precise direction yields precise results
  • Front-loaded shot type ensures framing priority
  • Without explicit camera direction, defaults to static/subtle handheld
  • Audio is generated WITH video — not layered on top
  • Same prompt + different seed = very similar output (unlike image models)
  • 100-180 words is the sweet spot for text-to-video prompts
  • 50-100 words for image-to-video prompts

THE MASTER FORMULA (7 Layers)

[1. CINEMATOGRAPHY] + [2. SUBJECT] + [3. ACTION] + [4. ENVIRONMENT] + [5. LIGHTING & MOOD] + [6. AUDIO DESIGN] + [7. TECHNICAL CONTROLS]

Layer 1: CINEMATOGRAPHY (Camera — Always First!)

Shot Types: Extreme Wide (EWS) → Wide (WS) → Medium (MS) → Medium Close-Up (MCU) → Close-Up (CU) → Extreme Close-Up (ECU) → Over-the-Shoulder (OTS) → Two-Shot

Camera Movements: Static/Tripod | Slow Pan | Dolly In/Out | Tracking | Crane | Aerial/Drone | Handheld | Whip Pan | POV | Orbit/Arc

Lens & Focus: 16mm wide-angle | 24mm establishing | 35mm natural | 50mm balanced | 85mm portrait | Macro detail | Shallow DOF f/1.4-2.8 | Deep Focus | Soft Focus

Read the full file on GitHub · 335 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. 11d ago First seen · 335 lines · 108 tokens per session scan A b21b6b25805e

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veo-prompting is a skill published in the GitHub repository u2n4/gemini-media-mcp (1 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 108 tokens to every session and 4,336 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 2026-08-31.

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