HappyHorse — model skill for cinematic & short films
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Generate and edit video with Alibaba HappyHorse 1.0: text, image and reference-to-video plus video edits.
- Type: Model · Cinematic & short films
- Slug:
inference-sh-happyhorse - Status: live
- Publisher: inference.sh (vendor, verified)
- License: MIT
- Source: https://github.com/inference-sh/skills/tree/main/tools/video/happyhorse
- Works in: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI
- Requires: inference.sh account, belt CLI (
belt login) - Cost: Billed by inference.sh
- Adoption: 9 installs, 781 GitHub stars (skills.sh, 2026-10-26)
What it does
Runs Alibaba's HappyHorse 1.0 family through inference.sh: text-to-video, image-to-video, reference-to-video and video editing. It lists the app ID and input shape for each mode.
Use when
- Expressive character motion
- Editing an existing clip with a prompt
Install
- Claude Code:
npx skills add inference-sh/skills --skill happyhorse -a claude-code - Codex:
npx skills add inference-sh/skills --skill happyhorse -a codex - Cursor:
npx skills add inference-sh/skills --skill happyhorse -a cursor - Gemini CLI:
npx skills add inference-sh/skills --skill happyhorse -a gemini-cli
Models it drives: happy_horse
Example output
https://skills.varg.ai/previews/inference-sh-happyhorse.mp4 — HappyHorse 1.0 text-to-video case from Alibaba Cloud Model Studio's official prompt repo: an orange-jacketed skier outruns a huge avalanche, from aerial shot to close tracking (credit: Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (HappyHorse 1.0), https://github.com/modelstudioai/awesome-happyhorse-prompts/blob/main/cases/t2v.en.md)
More cinematic & short films skills
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- fal Recipes: Follow proven multi-step fal pipelines for commercials, product shots, characters, lip-sync and try-on.
- 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.
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