Generative Media Skills - Setup Guide¶
Source: calesthio/generative-media-skills
GitHub: calesthio/generative-media-skills (137⭐, MIT, published July 11, 2026)
Skills: 153 packages across 25 categories (45 indexed on skills.sh at 43-77 installs each, 2,143 combined indexed installs)
Category: Media Production / Generative AI Operations
First Seen: August 26, 2026 sweep
Quality Tier: 🔵 Community - high craft quality (per-skill EVAL.md, dated fact verification, progressive disclosure) but low install counts and no extracted marketplace audit verdicts; inspect SKILL.md packages before production use
The Generative Media Skills suite is a complete media production brain for AI agents: 153 hand-researched skill packages spanning provider intelligence (image, video, TTS, voice, music, avatar, 3D), production craft (cinematography, editing, sound design, post-production), content formats (ads, shorts, podcasts, demos, trailers), and deterministic QA tooling. It is one of the few skills.sh suites that names Hermes explicitly - the repo ships a HERMES.md entrypoint and the README lists "OpenClaw/Hermes-style agents" as a first-class target.
This maps directly onto CorpusIQ's daily media pipeline: UGC video generation, GPT-Image-2 image production, HyperFrames and Remotion composition, and the pending ElevenLabs voiceover migration.
Installation¶
The maintained-checkout pattern (recommended - keeps all 153 skills updateable with git pull):
git clone https://github.com/calesthio/generative-media-skills.git
# ~/.hermes/config.yaml
skills:
external_dirs:
- /absolute/path/to/generative-media-skills/skills
Or via the skills.sh marketplace CLI (verified working Aug 26, 2026 - discovers 151 of 153 packages):
# Install the whole suite
npx skills add calesthio/generative-media-skills
# Install a single skill
npx skills add calesthio/generative-media-skills -s openai-gpt-image
# List available skills without installing
npx skills add calesthio/generative-media-skills --list
Skills live under skills/providers/<category>/<skill>/ and skills/production/<category>/<skill>/. Each package is plain Markdown (SKILL.md) plus optional scripts/, references/, and assets/ - copy any individual package into ~/.hermes/profiles/<profile>/skills/ and Hermes loads it natively.
Known issue: the CLI skips 2 packages with a YAML parse error (amazon-rekognition, google-cloud-vision - multi-line frontmatter descriptions that trip the strict parser). Install those two by copying their directories manually.
Prerequisites¶
| Requirement | Details |
|---|---|
| Provider API keys (per skill) | Provider skills cite APIs but never bundle keys. Image skills need OpenAI/Stability/Flux keys; TTS skills need ElevenLabs/Cartesia/OpenAI keys; video skills need Runway/Kling/Veo keys - only for the providers you actually use |
| Runtime tooling (skill-dependent) | ffmpeg-media-finishing needs ffmpeg; comfyui-media-workflows needs a ComfyUI instance; hyperframes-video-composition needs the HyperFrames runtime; remotion-video-composition needs Node + Remotion |
| Hermes Agent | Any version that loads SKILL.md packages; no minimum version constraint |
No account registration is required for the suite itself - it is MIT-licensed Markdown + scripts.
Core Skills¶
| Skill | Installs | Use For |
|---|---|---|
| generative-media-skills (meta) | 77 | Suite entrypoint - routes a brief to the right provider and production skills |
| editing-montage | 63 | Montage/editing craft: rhythm, match cuts, structure |
| cinematic-shot-direction | 62 | Shot plans, camera language, lighting intent for video generation prompts |
| audio-mixing-mastering | 59 | Loudness, balance, and delivery mastering for voiceover and music tracks |
| color-grading-finishing | 58 | Look consistency and finishing passes across a shot series |
| generated-media-qa | 57 | Deterministic QA checks on generated media output |
| character-design-continuity | 54 | Keeping a character/avatar visually consistent across shots |
| storyboard-previsualization | 54 | Previsualization boards before committing to renders |
| ecommerce-product-imagery | 53 | Product image production for commerce pages |
| ffmpeg-media-finishing | 52 | FFmpeg-driven finishing: containers, codecs, captions, checksums |
| media-qc-delivery | 51 | Delivery-time QC: specs, manifests, platform requirements |
| social-short-production | 49 | Vertical social short format: hooks, pacing, platform specs |
| hyperframes-video-composition | - | HyperFrames timeline composition (matches CorpusIQ's HyperFrames stack) |
| heygen-avatar-video | - | HeyGen avatar video production |
| openai-gpt-image | - | GPT Image 2/1.5 workflows - matches CorpusIQ's gpt-image-2-medium backend |
| elevenlabs-tts | - | ElevenLabs voiceover production - the pending fix for the rejected macOS say voice |
| ugc-ad-production | - | UGC-style ad production playbook |
| remotion-video-composition | - | Remotion React video composition |
| media-provenance-rights | 47 | Provenance, consent, and rights records for published media |
Full catalog: SKILL_INDEX.md in the repo (153 packages: 25 categories split into Providers and Production families).
CorpusIQ Use Cases¶
| Use Case | How |
|---|---|
| Daily UGC video pipeline | ugc-ad-production + social-short-production replace ad-hoc scripting with researched format specs; media-qc-delivery adds a deterministic QA pass before Postiz posting |
| Image production consistency | openai-gpt-image encodes the current GPT Image 2 lifecycle (aliases, deprecations, cost limits) - exactly the backend image_generate uses; pairs with the GPT-Image-2 Style Library already catalogued |
| Voiceover migration | elevenlabs-tts + elevenlabs-dubbing-voice-conversion provide the researched playbook for moving off macOS say -v Samantha (rejected for robotic quality) to ElevenLabs voices |
| HyperFrames compositions | hyperframes-video-composition and comfyui-media-workflows (which validates HyperFrames timelines) harden the existing HyperFrames UGC pipeline |
| Social QA + rights | generated-media-qa + media-provenance-rights gate every outgoing asset - scriptable checks instead of eyeballing, plus provenance records for platform disputes |
Limitations / Verification¶
- Install counts are modest (43-77 per indexed skill). The value is the research craft: every SKILL.md carries dated fact verification and per-package
EVAL.mdscoring. - Marketplace security audit verdicts (Gen Agent Trust Hub / Socket / Snyk) were not extracted this sweep - inspect
scripts/folders before running anything in production; most packages are Markdown-only. - Provider facts (prices, limits, deprecations) are marked volatile and dated (e.g., gpt-image-1 deprecation verified 2026-07-09) - re-verify against the linked official docs before quoting to users.
- The repo was last pushed July 14, 2026 - treat provider sections as snapshots of that date.
Related¶
- GPT-Image-2 Style Library Setup - style templates for the same image backend
- Skills Marketplace - marketplace index for more discovery batches
- New Skills - August 26, 2026 - discovery page for this sweep
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