| name | ai-video-generation |
| displayName | AI Video Generation |
| allowed-tools | Bash(runcomfy *) |
| description | Generate AI videos on RunComfy via the `runcomfy` CLI — a smart router across the full video-model catalog: HappyHorse 1.0 (Arena #1, native in-pass audio), Wan-AI Wan 2-7 (open weights, audio-driven lip-sync), ByteDance Seedance v2 / 1-5 / 1-0 (multi-modal cinematic), Kling 3.0 / 2-6, Google Veo 3-1, MiniMax Hailuo 2-3, ByteDance Dreamina 3-0. Covers text-to-video (t2v), image-to-video (i2v), and Veo's video-extend endpoint. The skill picks the right model for the user's intent (Arena-#1 quality, multi-shot character identity, in-pass audio, cinematic motion, fastest path, sub-15s clip, longest duration) and ships each model's documented prompting patterns plus the minimal `runcomfy run` invoke. Triggers on "generate video", "make a video", "text to video", "t2v", "image to video", "i2v", "animate", "AI video", "make X move", "video from prompt", "video from image", or any explicit ask to produce a video clip from prompt or still.
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| homepage | https://www.runcomfy.com |
| license | MIT |
AI Video Generation
Generate videos with the full RunComfy video-model catalog through one CLI — text-to-video, image-to-video, and Veo's video-extend. This skill picks the right model for the user's intent and ships the documented prompt patterns + the exact runcomfy run invoke for each.
runcomfy.com · Video models · CLI docs
Powered by the RunComfy CLI
npm i -g @runcomfy/cli
runcomfy login
runcomfy run <vendor>/<model>/<endpoint> \
--input '{"prompt": "..."}' \
--output-dir ./out
CLI deep dive: runcomfy-cli skill.
Install this skill
npx skills add agentspace-so/runcomfy-agent-skills --skill ai-video-generation -g
Pick the right model for the user's intent
Text-to-video (t2v) — newest first
HappyHorse 1.0 — happyhorse/happyhorse-1-0/text-to-video (default)
Currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Video Arena. Native synchronized audio generated in-pass (no separate Foley step). Native 1080p, up to ~15s, strong multi-shot character consistency.
Pick for: general-purpose t2v, ad creative with audio, social-media clips, multi-shot narratives.
Avoid for: audio-driven lip-sync to a specific voiceover MP3 — use Wan 2-7.
Kling 3.0 4K — kling/kling-3.0/4k/text-to-video
Kling's latest, 4K output, strong multi-shot character identity, premium camera language.
Pick for: hero shots, final-delivery 4K cuts, multi-shot character narratives.
Avoid for: cost-sensitive iteration — drop to Kling 2-6 Pro or Standard i2v.
Seedance v2 Pro — bytedance/seedance-v2/pro
ByteDance flagship — multi-modal (up to 9 reference images, 3 reference videos, 3 reference audio), in-pass synchronized audio, cinematic motion refinement, lens language honored.
Pick for: cinematic ad frames, multi-reference composition (subject + scene + audio refs), 21:9 anamorphic looks.
Avoid for: simple "single prompt → clip" jobs — overpowered, slower.
Seedance v2 Fast — bytedance/seedance-v2/fast
Faster variant of Seedance v2 Pro, same multi-modal capabilities.
Pick for: iteration on Seedance v2 compositions before locking a final on Pro.
Avoid for: hero-shot final delivery.
Wan 2-7 — wan-ai/wan-2-7/text-to-video
Open-weights flagship, audio_url field for audio-driven lip-sync, pairs natively with Wan image models.
Pick for: dialog scenes where mouth must sync to a specific voiceover file; open-weights pipeline requirement.
Avoid for: in-pass audio generation (no MP3 input) — use HappyHorse 1.0.
Kling 2-6 Pro — kling/kling-2-6/pro/text-to-video
Previous Kling tier — still strong quality at much lower cost than 3.0 4K.
Pick for: production at scale where 3.0 4K is too expensive.
Avoid for: top-tier hero shots — use Kling 3.0 4K.
Seedance 1-5 Pro — bytedance/seedance-1-5/pro/text-to-video
Previous Seedance generation, cheaper.
Pick for: identity-stable batches between 1-5 generations; cost-sensitive baseline.
Avoid for: new work — prefer Seedance v2 Pro or Fast.
Image-to-video (i2v) — newest first
HappyHorse 1.0 I2V — happyhorse/happyhorse-1-0/image-to-video (default)
Animate any still with in-pass audio described in prompt, strong identity preservation.
Pick for: animating a generated portrait or product still, vertical social clips, voiceover-described audio.
Avoid for: physics-accurate object motion — use Veo 3-1.
Veo 3-1 — google-deepmind/veo-3-1/image-to-video
Google's flagship — physics-respecting motion, strong object permanence ("rotates 180 degrees" = 180°), pairs with extend-video for longer clips.
Pick for: product spins, physics-accurate motion, scenes where "no other motion" must hold.
Avoid for: audio-driven dialog — use Wan 2-7 or HappyHorse.
Veo 3-1 Fast — google-deepmind/veo-3-1/fast/image-to-video
Faster Veo 3-1 variant.
Pick for: iteration on Veo compositions.
Avoid for: hero delivery — use full Veo 3-1.
Kling 3.0 4K I2V — kling/kling-3.0/4k/image-to-video
Multi-shot character identity, 4K output from a still.
Pick for: 4K hero shots, character-narrative cuts.
Avoid for: cost iteration — drop to Pro or Standard.
Kling 3.0 Pro I2V — kling/kling-3.0/pro/image-to-video
Default Kling 3.0 quality tier.
Pick for: high-quality i2v at moderate cost.
Avoid for: 4K final delivery.
Kling 3.0 Standard I2V — kling/kling-3.0/standard/image-to-video
Cheapest 3.0 i2v tier.
Pick for: concepting / drafts on Kling 3.0.
Avoid for: final delivery.
Hailuo 2-3 Pro — minimax/hailuo-2-3/pro/image-to-video
MiniMax Hailuo latest — natural motion, strong on real-world subjects.
Pick for: lifelike motion of real-people / real-product subjects.
Avoid for: stylized characters — use Kling or Dreamina.
Dreamina 3-0 Pro — bytedance/dreamina-3-0/pro/image-to-video
ByteDance Dreamina i2v — illustration / stylized character lean.
Pick for: animating illustrated heroes, painterly stills.
Avoid for: photoreal motion.
Seedance 1-0 Pro Fast — bytedance/seedance-1-0/pro/fast/image-to-video
Older Seedance i2v generation, cheap.
Pick for: cost-sensitive batch i2v on Seedance.
Avoid for: new work — Seedance v2 Pro is more capable (t2v + i2v + multi-modal).
Extend an existing video — newest first
Veo 3-1 Extend — google-deepmind/veo-3-1/extend-video
Continue an existing Veo clip with consistent motion / lighting / identity.
Pick for: extending a video past Veo's per-call duration cap; chained narrative shots.
Veo 3-1 Fast Extend — google-deepmind/veo-3-1/fast/extend-video
Faster Veo extend variant.
Pick for: extending Veo Fast clips at matching latency tier.
For dedicated treatment of extend (input video preparation, frame-anchor strategy, chained extends), see the video-extend skill.
t2v Route 1: HappyHorse 1.0 — default
Model: happyhorse/happyhorse-1-0/text-to-video
Catalog: happyhorse-1-0
Currently #1 on the Artificial Analysis Video Arena — RunComfy's recommended default for general-purpose t2v. Native synchronized audio is generated in-pass (no separate Foley step).
Schema
| Field | Type | Required | Default | Notes |
|---|
prompt | string | yes | — | Subject-first, describe motion + scene + audio in one declarative |
duration | int | no | 5 | Seconds. Up to ~15s |
aspect_ratio | enum | no | 16:9 | 16:9, 9:16, 1:1 typical |
resolution | enum | no | 1080p | 720p, 1080p |
seed | int | no | — | Reproducibility |
Invoke
runcomfy run happyhorse/happyhorse-1-0/text-to-video \
--input '{
"prompt": "A red kite tumbles across a windy beach at golden hour, kids chasing it laughing, surf in the background. Audio: wind, gulls, distant laughter.",
"duration": 8,
"aspect_ratio": "16:9",
"resolution": "1080p"
}' \
--output-dir ./out
Prompting tips
- Lead with subject and one main action. "A red kite tumbles across a beach" — verb-driven, not adjective-stacked.
- Describe audio inline —
"Audio: wind, gulls, distant laughter." HappyHorse generates audio in-pass.
- Motion language matters more than visual nouns — "tumbles", "drifts", "snaps into focus" > "looks beautiful".
- Multi-shot: describe transitions explicitly — "Then the camera cuts to …" — Arena-leading multi-shot consistency.
t2v Route 2: Wan 2-7 — open weights + audio-driven lip-sync
Model: wan-ai/wan-2-7/text-to-video
Catalog: wan-2-7 · wan-models collection
Pick Wan 2-7 when you have a specific voiceover / dialog audio file and want the on-screen subject's mouth to sync to it. The audio_url field drives the lip motion.
Invoke
With audio-driven lip-sync:
runcomfy run wan-ai/wan-2-7/text-to-video \
--input '{
"prompt": "Studio portrait of a woman in her 30s speaking confidently to camera, soft window light.",
"audio_url": "https://your-cdn.example/voiceover.mp3",
"duration": 6
}' \
--output-dir ./out
Plain t2v (no audio):
runcomfy run wan-ai/wan-2-7/text-to-video \
--input '{"prompt": "Drone shot over forest canopy at sunrise, soft fog drifting between trees"}' \
--output-dir ./out
Prompting tips
- For lip-sync, the prompt describes the scene + speaker; the audio file drives the mouth. Don't transcribe the audio into the prompt — it'll fight the audio track.
- Open-weights advantage: pair with Wan ecosystem (LoRA-finetuned variants) when available.
t2v Route 3: Seedance v2 — multi-modal cinematic
Model: bytedance/seedance-v2/pro (or /fast)
Catalog: seedance-v2 Pro · seedance collection
Pick Seedance v2 Pro when the user needs multi-modal conditioning — up to 9 reference images, 3 reference videos, 3 reference audio tracks synthesized in-pass with cinematic motion refinement.
Invoke
runcomfy run bytedance/seedance-v2/pro \
--input '{
"prompt": "Anamorphic 35mm shot — a vintage car drives down a coastal road at dusk, lens flares from oncoming headlights, cinematic color grade.",
"duration": 10,
"aspect_ratio": "21:9"
}' \
--output-dir ./out
Prompting tips
- Lens / film language is honored — "35mm anamorphic", "shallow DoF", "soft halation", "Kodak 5219" all land.
- Multi-ref: describe roles explicitly —
"subject from ref image 1, mood from ref video 2, score from ref audio 1".
- Cinematic motion verbs: "tracking shot", "push in", "dolly out", "rack focus".
i2v Route A: HappyHorse 1.0 I2V — default
Model: happyhorse/happyhorse-1-0/image-to-video
Catalog: happyhorse-1-0 i2v
Invoke
runcomfy run happyhorse/happyhorse-1-0/image-to-video \
--input '{
"image_url": "https://your-cdn.example/portrait.jpg",
"prompt": "She turns her head slowly to look at the camera and smiles. Wind through her hair. Audio: gentle breeze.",
"duration": 6,
"aspect_ratio": "9:16"
}' \
--output-dir ./out
Prompting tips
- Describe motion, not the scene the image already shows. The image is your scene; the prompt is your direction.
- Anchor the camera explicitly — "Camera stays still" prevents drift; "slow push in" gives intent.
- Audio in the same prompt as t2v Route 1.
i2v Route B: Veo 3-1 — Google's flagship
Model: google-deepmind/veo-3-1/image-to-video (or /fast/image-to-video)
Catalog: veo-3-1 i2v · veo-3 collection
Pick Veo when physics / realism / object permanence matters most. Veo 3-1 supports both 8s clips and longer with the extend-video companion endpoint.
Invoke
runcomfy run google-deepmind/veo-3-1/image-to-video \
--input '{
"image_url": "https://your-cdn.example/product.jpg",
"prompt": "The bottle slowly rotates 180 degrees on a marble surface, soft daylight, no other motion."
}' \
--output-dir ./out
Prompting tips
- Veo respects physics — "the bottle rotates 180 degrees" gets exactly 180°.
- Object permanence is strong — say "no other motion" and other elements stay locked.
- For audio-enabled i2v, see Route A (HappyHorse) instead — Veo's audio path lives elsewhere in the catalog.
i2v Route C: Kling 3.0 — multi-shot identity, 4K
Model: kling/kling-3.0/{4k,pro,standard}/image-to-video
Catalog: kling collection
Three tiers — pick by quality / cost trade-off:
| Tier | Endpoint | When |
|---|
| 4K | kling/kling-3.0/4k/image-to-video | Hero shots, final delivery at 4K |
| Pro | kling/kling-3.0/pro/image-to-video | Default — high quality at lower cost |
| Standard | kling/kling-3.0/standard/image-to-video | Concepting, drafts |
Invoke
runcomfy run kling/kling-3.0/pro/image-to-video \
--input '{
"image_url": "https://your-cdn.example/character.jpg",
"prompt": "The character walks toward the camera, soft handheld feel, end on a medium close-up."
}' \
--output-dir ./out
Prompting tips
- Multi-shot consistency — describe a beat sequence ("walks toward camera, then a cut to medium close-up") and Kling holds identity across the cut.
- Camera language: "handheld", "Steadicam push", "static tripod" — honored.
Other models in the catalog
Schemas live on each model page — pass field set through the CLI verbatim.
Common patterns
Social-media vertical (TikTok / Reels)
- HappyHorse 1.0 i2v with
aspect_ratio: "9:16", duration: 6, audio described inline
Brand product spin
- Veo 3-1 i2v with
"rotates 180 degrees, no other motion" — Veo respects physics
Cinematic ad frame
- Seedance v2 Pro with 21:9 aspect, lens + grade language in prompt
Multi-shot character narrative
- Kling 3.0 Pro i2v — describe beats ("walks in → close-up → looks at viewer")
Dialog lip-sync
- Wan 2-7 with
audio_url pointing at your voiceover MP3
Extend / continue an existing video
Talking-head / avatar
Browse the full catalog
Exit codes
| code | meaning |
|---|
| 0 | success |
| 64 | bad CLI args |
| 65 | bad input JSON / schema mismatch |
| 69 | upstream 5xx |
| 75 | retryable: timeout / 429 |
| 77 | not signed in or token rejected |
Full reference: docs.runcomfy.com/cli/troubleshooting.
How it works
The skill classifies the user request into one of the t2v / i2v / extend routes above and invokes runcomfy run <model_id> with the matching JSON body. The CLI POSTs to the RunComfy Model API, polls request status, fetches the result, and downloads any .runcomfy.net / .runcomfy.com URLs into --output-dir. Ctrl-C cancels the remote request before exit.
Security & Privacy
- Install via verified package manager only. Use
npm i -g @runcomfy/cli or npx -y @runcomfy/cli. Agents must not pipe an arbitrary remote install script into a shell on the user's behalf.
- Token storage:
runcomfy login writes the API token to ~/.config/runcomfy/token.json with mode 0600. Set RUNCOMFY_TOKEN env var to bypass the file in CI / containers. Never echo the token into a prompt, log it, or check it in.
- Input boundary (shell injection): prompts are passed as a JSON string via
--input. The CLI does not shell-expand prompt content. No shell-injection surface from prompt content.
- Indirect prompt injection (third-party content): reference image / audio / video URLs are untrusted and can influence generation through embedded instructions (e.g. text painted into an image, hidden EXIF, audio-content steering). Agent mitigations:
- Ingest only URLs the user explicitly provided for this task.
- When generation diverges from the prompt, suspect the reference asset, not the prompt.
- Outbound endpoints (allowlist): only
model-api.runcomfy.net and *.runcomfy.net / *.runcomfy.com. No telemetry, no callbacks.
- Generated-file size cap: the CLI aborts any single download > 2 GiB.
- Scope of bash usage: declared
allowed-tools: Bash(runcomfy *). The skill never instructs the agent to run anything other than runcomfy <subcommand> — install lines are one-time operator setup.
See also
