The pipeline says "generate hero video." This skill decides WHERE that runs - free local preview, a rented GPU, or a paid API - from config, never hardcoded. That indirection is the point: you preview for free, a human approves, and only then does the same call spend money on a hero render.
scripts/generate.sh --prompt "<shot>" --out <path.mp4> [--backend preview|vast|api]
[--res 512x768] [--frames 65] [--image <still.png>]Video Backend is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the video sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/video-backend/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use whenever a pipeline stage needs to turn a prompt into an actual video file and you do not want to hardcode which engine renders it. Invoke for "generate the hero video", "render this clip", "make a preview of this shot".
The Video Backend Claude Code skill is built for content creators, marketers, copywriters, SEO professionals, and editorial teams. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 174,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/video-backend curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/video-backend/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/video-backend/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/video-backend/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/video-backend/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\video-backend\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/video-backend/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Video Backend is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Content category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{video-backend-2026,
author = {grooverLab},
title = {Video Backend [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/video-backend/}
}Grade A · scanned 2026-08-02 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.
The scan flagged 1 of 10 categories (network), including lower-severity patterns. Patterns shown inside code fences are weighted as examples rather than instructions — read the grading methodology for what this does and does not guarantee.
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