custom-claude-skills/skills/minimax-video/SKILL.md

name, description, allowed-tools

name	description	allowed-tools
minimax-video	Generate a short video clip from a text prompt or an image via the MiniMax video API. Use when the user wants video, a moving clip, animation, or a short film. Trigger on phrases like "make a video", "animate this", "film", "create a clip", "video of X".	Bash(minimax-gen video *), Bash(minimax-gen --help), Bash(mkdir *), Bash(ls *), Bash(test *), Bash(file *), Read

/minimax-video — Video Generation

Generate a short video clip. Asynchronous — submit, poll, download.

CLI

# Text-to-video
minimax-gen video --prompt "A paper plane gliding over a city" \
  --duration 6 --resolution 768P \
  --out /tmp/plane.mp4

# Image-to-video (animate a still)
minimax-gen video --image-url https://example.com/cover.jpg \
  --out /tmp/anim.mp4

The CLI is at ~/dev/claude/gamedev/minimax-gen/bin/minimax-gen.

Models and resolutions

Model	Resolutions
MiniMax-Hailuo-2.3 (default)	768P, 1080P
MiniMax-Hailuo-2.3Fast	768P, 1080P (cheaper, faster)
MiniMax-Hailuo-02	legacy

720p is rejected — use 768P or 1080P (capitalised).

Duration

Common: 6 seconds. The default is 6.

Timeouts

Async work — total wall-clock can be 1–5 minutes. Default --timeout is 900s. --poll-interval controls how often we ask the server for status (default 5s).

After the call

1. Show the path written and the task_id from the sidecar .meta.json.
2. Note the resolution (video_width × video_height) and file size.
3. Do NOT print the meta JSON — point at the file.

Never do

• Never echo, log, or commit the contents of ~/.claude-secrets/minimax-auth-token.

Reference

Full option list: minimax-gen video --help