video-animate SKILL.md skillA
video-animate from varghq/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add varghq/skills/video-animate@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- varghq/skills
- Path
video-animate/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Nov 4, 2026
- Size
- 20,929 bytes
- Repository stars
- 21
- License
- MIT
Animate a video once the previz, characters, moodboard, script and sound exist. Decide per element whether code, AI video or both makes it, pick Seedance 2.5 or another model per shot, run a cheap 480p pass before paying for quality, choose one long generation or short clips, roll takes that differ only in performance, cut picture to the locked track, and generate plates the next agent can add motion design to and edit. Built from working AI filmmakers, vendor guides, sync standards and the…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Video animate You already have the hard parts: an approved previz in Blender or three.js, characters, a moodboard, a script and locked sound. This skill turns them into footage. One idea runs through all of it: **give each variable one owner, and change it in the layer where changing it is cheapest and most exact.** | Layer | Owns | Why | |---|---|---| | Previz | camera, blocking, timing | Free and exact. Change one thing and nothing else moves | | Video model | look, performance, skin, cloth, weather, crowds | Plausible, but every call re-rolls whatever you left open | | Code | text, numbers, UI, logos, charts, captions | Right to the character and the frame, every render | | Edit | sync, final rhythm, cadence, retiming | Free, reversible, re-rolls nothing | Something missing? Go back first: `find-references`, `video-moodboard`, `video-script`, `character-passport`, `video-sound`, then `threejs-animatic` or `varg-previz`. No previz at all and only 1 to 3 simple shots: approve a still per shot and use image-to-video (`varg-video-prompting`). ## What the evidence says …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add varghq/skills/video-animate@sha256:a5b54bddacdcc1d3The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_hwtuyxhiaswq5cq6)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Nov 4, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (20929 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
varghq/skills · 21 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_hwtuyxhiaswq5cq6 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=varghq/skills/video-animate GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a5b54bddacdcc1d3ee1f89907cdc9568fec168a4a4f8154727c78423f238e477
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.