# Video Prompting Guide — prompt skill for prompts by model

> **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 `.md` to its path. Before generating anything, show the person the options on the use-case page.

Write prompts that video models follow: shot types, camera moves and per-model tips from Veo to Sora.

- **Type:** [Prompt](https://skills.varg.ai/prompts.md) · [Prompts by model](https://skills.varg.ai/browse/skills/prompting.md)
- **Slug:** `inference-sh-video-prompting-guide`
- **Status:** live
- **Publisher:** inference.sh (vendor, verified)
- **License:** MIT
- **Source:** https://github.com/inference-sh/skills/tree/main/guides/prompting/video-prompting-guide
- **Works in:** Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI
- **Requires:** inference.sh account, belt CLI (`belt login`)
- **Cost:** Billed by inference.sh
- **Adoption:** 6 installs, 781 GitHub stars (skills.sh, 2026-10-26)

## What it does

Techniques for AI video prompts across Veo, Seedance, Wan, Grok, Kling, Runway, Pika and Sora: shot types, camera movement, and subject and action description. It adds model-specific strategies with examples that run on inference.sh.

## Use when

- Writing a video prompt
- Porting a prompt between video models

## Install

- Claude Code: `npx skills add inference-sh/skills --skill video-prompting-guide -a claude-code`
- Codex: `npx skills add inference-sh/skills --skill video-prompting-guide -a codex`
- Cursor: `npx skills add inference-sh/skills --skill video-prompting-guide -a cursor`
- Gemini CLI: `npx skills add inference-sh/skills --skill video-prompting-guide -a gemini-cli`

**Models it drives:** veo_3_1, seedance_2, wan_2_5, grok_imagine

## More prompts by model skills

- [fal Prompting](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/fal-prompting.md): Prompt specific model families well: Kling, GPT Image 2 and Happy Horse guides, loaded only when needed.
- [Replicate Prompt Images](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/replicate-prompt-images.md): Write better image prompts and edits: photographic language, lighting, text rendering, consistent characters.
- [Replicate Prompt Videos](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/replicate-prompt-videos.md): Prompt video models like a director: shots, camera motion, four audio layers, dialogue, time-coded beats.
- [FLUX 3 Prompt Doctor](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/flux-3-prompt-doctor.md): Diagnose a FLUX 3 video brief before spending: resolve missing, conflicting or schema-changing asks.
- [FLUX Image Best Practices](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/flux-image-best-practices.md): Prompt FLUX image models well: structure, JSON prompts, hex colors, typography and multi-reference edits.
- [AI Film Director (Visual Skills)](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/visual-skills-video-director.md): AI film director for video prompts: dramaturgy first (Murch, blocking, montage), then exact syntax per model.