Video Gen

Category: Content · Sub-category: video

ai:gemini

Interactive AI video generation using the gemini-media MCP (Google Veo 3.1 models). Use this skill whenever the user asks to generate, create, or make a video, clip, animation, or motion content. Also use when the user wants to animate an existing image into video, extend a video clip, create a short film, promotional video, or any moving visual content. Triggers on "generate a video", "make a clip", "animate this image", "create a video of...", "video generation", or similar requests. This skill handles the full workflow from understanding intent through prompt engineering to async generation management and iterative refinement.

What this skill does

Video Gen 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-gen/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: use when the user wants to animate an existing image into video, extend a video clip, create a short film, promotional video, or any moving visual content. Triggers on "generate a video", "make a clip", "animate this image", "create a video of.

Who uses this skill

The Video Gen skill is built for content creators, marketers, copywriters, SEO professionals, and editorial teams. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 56,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/video-gen
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/video-gen/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/video-gen/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/video-gen/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/video-gen/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\video-gen\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

Pro

For the full experience including quality scoring and one-click install features for each skill — upgrade to Pro.

See pricing → Download desktop app