Runway Studio Skills — model 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.
Run Runway's API from Python scripts: text, image and video-to-video, character performance, images, TTS.
- Type: Model · Cinematic & short films
- Slug:
runway-studio-skills - Status: live
- Publisher: Runway (vendor, verified)
- License: MIT
- Source: https://github.com/runwayml/runway-studio-skills
- Works in: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI
- Requires: Runway API key (RUNWAYML_API_SECRET), Python with uv
- Cost: Billed in Runway credits
- Adoption: 44 installs (skills.sh, 2026-10-26)
What it does
Generates video, images and audio with the Runway API through bundled Python scripts: text-to-video, image-to-video, video-to-video, character performance, image generation with references, sound effects, text-to-speech, speech-to-speech, voice dubbing and voice isolation, plus task polling. It covers product-ad workflows and lists models including Gen-4.5, Gen-4 Aleph, Veo 3.1 and Seedance 2.
Use when
- Generate a video, image or audio with the Runway API
- A product ad video
- Dubbing or isolating a voice
Install
- Claude Code:
npx skills add runwayml/runway-studio-skills -a claude-code - Codex:
npx skills add runwayml/runway-studio-skills -a codex - Cursor:
npx skills add runwayml/runway-studio-skills -a cursor - Gemini CLI:
npx skills add runwayml/runway-studio-skills -a gemini-cli
Models it drives: gen4.5, gen4_aleph, gen4_image, gen4_turbo, veo_3_1, seedance_2, eleven_multilingual_v2
Example output
https://skills.varg.ai/previews/runway-studio-skills.mp4 — Aleph 2.0 video-to-video example on the Runway Dev landing page: edits applied to existing clips (balloons added to a car, a sneaker swapped and recolored); 0-8 s (credit: Runway, https://dev.runway.com/)
Used for
- Put your character into a reference video: Your character (or person) performs the exact motion of a trending video: dance, gesture, walk, ad performance — motion transfer.
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 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