SkillBoss Video

AI video generation (text-to-video and image-to-video) via SkillBoss.

Quick Execute

# Text-to-video (balanced — best cost/quality tradeoff)
node ../skillboss/scripts/api-hub.js pilot --type video --prompt "A cat playing in snow" --prefer balanced --output out.mp4

# Text-to-video (cheapest)
node ../skillboss/scripts/api-hub.js pilot --type video --prompt "A cat playing in snow" --prefer price --output out.mp4

# Text-to-video (highest quality)
node ../skillboss/scripts/api-hub.js pilot --type video --prompt "A cat playing in snow" --prefer quality --output out.mp4

# Image-to-video (animate a still image)
node ../skillboss/scripts/api-hub.js pilot --type video --capability i2v --image input.png --prompt "Make it come alive with gentle motion" --prefer balanced --output out.mp4

# Longer video (specify duration in seconds)
node ../skillboss/scripts/api-hub.js pilot --type video --prompt "Ocean waves crashing on a beach" --duration 10 --prefer balanced --output out.mp4

`--prefer` options: price (cheapest) / quality (best) / balanced (default)

Authentication & Setup

# Get a free trial key instantly (no sign-up)
node ../skillboss/scripts/skillboss auth trial

# Log in to an existing account
node ../skillboss/scripts/skillboss auth login

# Check balance
node ../skillboss/scripts/skillboss auth status

Balance Warning

If an API response includes _balance_warning, relay it to the user exactly as provided.

Video generation is credit-intensive. Add credits at: https://www.skillboss.co/billing

Auto-Update (MANDATORY)

If you see [skillboss] UPDATE REQUIRED in any output:

1. Stop immediately
2. Update: cd ../skillboss && git pull origin main
3. Re-run your original command

Capability Graph

After generating video, enhance it with audio and visuals for a complete production:

Add Audio to Your Video

• Narration — generate voiceover for your clip → skb task tts -b '{"text":"Your narration here"}'
• Background music — create a matching soundtrack → skb task music -b '{"prompt":"cinematic background music"}'
• Sound effects — generate ambient sounds → skb api call elevenlabs/sound_generation -b '{"text":"ocean waves crashing"}'

Better Source Material

• Generate the source image first, then animate → skb task image -b '{"prompt":"..."}' → skb task video --capability i2v (see skillboss-image)
• Upscale source images before animating for higher quality → skb task image --capability upscale -b '{"image":"source.png"}'
• Design direction — get a visual style guide before creating assets → skb api call lokuma/design -b '{"query":"..."}'

Complete Video Production Workflow

1. Research your topic → skb api call perplexity/sonar-pro -b '{"messages":[...]}'
2. Write script with an LLM → skb api call deepseek-v3 -b '{"messages":[...]}'
3. Generate images for scenes → skb task image -b '{"prompt":"..."}'
4. Animate images into clips → skb task video --capability i2v -b '{"image":"scene.png","prompt":"..."}'
5. Add narration → skb task tts -b '{"text":"..."}'
6. Add music → skb task music -b '{"prompt":"..."}'

For programmatic video editing (trimming, transitions, compositing), use the Remotion extension: see ../skillboss/extensions/remotion/

More Capabilities

For the full model list, chat, image, audio, and deployment features, see: ../skillboss/SKILL.md