veo

name	veo
description	Generate video using Google Veo (Veo 3.1 / Veo 3.0). Use when: creating video clips from text prompts, generating B-roll, making animated content. DON'T use when: editing existing videos (use ffmpeg/video-frames), extracting frames from video (use video-frames skill), or adding subtitles (use video-subtitles skill).

Veo (Google Video Generation)

Generate video clips using Google's Veo API.

Generate video

uv run {baseDir}/scripts/generate_video.py --prompt "your video description" --filename "output.mp4"

Options

• --duration / -d: Video duration in seconds (default: 8, max varies by model)
• --aspect-ratio / -a: Aspect ratio (16:9, 9:16, 1:1)
• --model: Veo model to use (veo-2.0-generate-001, veo-3.0-generate-001, veo-3.1-generate-preview, etc.)
• --api-key: Override GEMINI_API_KEY

API key

• GEMINI_API_KEY env var (preferred)
• Or set skills."veo".env.GEMINI_API_KEY in ~/.clawdbot/clawdbot.json

Notes

• Veo 3.1 supports higher quality and longer durations
• Output is MP4 format
• Use --model veo-3.1-generate-preview for best results
• Veo 3.0-fast-generate-001 is faster but lower quality
• The script prints a MEDIA: line for Clawdbot to auto-attach on supported chat providers.