fal Recipes — workflow skill for cinematic & short films
For AI agents: find the right skill in one call —
curl -s "https://skills.varg.ai/api/search?q=<what the person wants>"returns the matching use case and the best skills with install commands, as markdown (Russian works too). Full index: https://skills.varg.ai/llms.txt. Every page has a markdown twin: add.mdto its path. Before generating anything, show the person the options on the use-case page.
Follow proven multi-step fal pipelines for commercials, product shots, characters, lip-sync and try-on.
- Type: Workflow · Cinematic & short films
- Slug:
fal-recipes - Status: live
- Publisher: fal (vendor, verified)
- License: MIT
- Source: https://github.com/fal-ai-community/skills/tree/main/skills/fal-recipes
- Works in: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI
- Requires: fal API key (FAL_KEY), genmedia CLI
- Cost: Billed by fal per endpoint call
- Adoption: 448 installs, 256 GitHub stars (skills.sh, 2026-10-26)
What it does
Use-case pipelines on fal for when someone wants a kind of content rather than one endpoint call: cinematography, realism, character design and consistency, commercials, product shots, storytelling, character lip-sync, image restoration, virtual try-on and video with audio. Every recipe follows the same structure, and they cross-reference the production skills.
Use when
- Make a commercial or a product shot
- A consistent character or a lip-synced line
- Virtual try-on, restoration or a film look
Install
- Claude Code:
npx skills add fal-ai-community/skills --skill fal-recipes -a claude-code - Codex:
npx skills add fal-ai-community/skills --skill fal-recipes -a codex - Cursor:
npx skills add fal-ai-community/skills --skill fal-recipes -a cursor - Gemini CLI:
npx skills add fal-ai-community/skills --skill fal-recipes -a gemini-cli
Example output
https://skills.varg.ai/previews/fal-recipes.webp — Photoreal editorial example (fishmonger unpacking mackerel at dawn) generated with GPT Image 2 on fal — the default model and look of the recipes' photorealism pipeline (credit: fal, https://fal.ai/learn/tools/prompting-gpt-image-2)
More cinematic & short films skills
- Previz to Seedance: Plan multi-shot AI video before paying: story, anchor sheets, a three.js grey-box previz, then a Seedance v2v pack.
- Higgsfield Generate: Generate images, video, 3D and audio across 30+ models, plus ad videos and virality scoring, from one CLI.
- fal Fan Cam: Put someone into a live sports broadcast: a realistic fan-cam cutaway with scoreboard and channel overlays.
- Gemini Omni Flash: Generate and edit video with Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash: text-to-video, first/last frames, extensions, edits.
- Melies: Generate images, video, movie posters and thumbnails from the terminal with 148 AI actors and style flags.
- AI Video Generation: Generate video with 40+ models from one CLI: Veo 3.1, Seedance 2.0, HappyHorse, Wan, Grok and more.
Run the generation on varg
varg is one API key for the models these skills drive — Seedance 2.5, Kling 4, Veo 3.1, Wan 3, Nano Banana 2.1, GPT Image 2.5, ElevenLabs v4 and 200+ more — billed in credits, with a cost estimate before anything runs.
- Claude Code:
claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg(skill + hosted MCP) - Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw:
npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai -a <agent> -y - Claude.ai, ChatGPT, any MCP client: connect
https://mcp.varg.ai/mcp - API key: https://varg.ai/dashboard/api · Model specs: https://varg.ai/models/llms.txt