MiniMax H3 Skills - Setup Guide¶

Source: minimax-ai/minimax-h3 (15,683+ combined installs on skills.sh) Category: Video Generation / AI Content Quality Tier: 🟡 Unverified (no skills.sh Trust Hub / Socket / Snyk verdicts published)

MiniMax H3 is MiniMax's flagship video generation model (Hailuo). The official MiniMax org publishes this repo (8,630★, 599 forks, created Jul 30 2026) with nine bundled agent skills: one portable prompt-writing skill (h3-prompt-writing) and eight style-specific generators built for the MiniMax Hub canvas workflow.

Installation¶

# Portable prompt-writing skill (recommended - works in any agent harness)
npx skills add minimax-ai/minimax-h3 --skill h3-prompt-writing

# Alternative URL form used in the README
npx skills add https://github.com/MiniMax-AI/MiniMax-H3 --skill h3-prompt-writing

# MiniMax Hub canvas skills (require the MiniMax Hub runtime)
npx skills add minimax-ai/minimax-h3 --skill brand-promo-video-generator
npx skills add minimax-ai/minimax-h3 --skill music-video-subtitle-generator
npx skills add minimax-ai/minimax-h3 --skill handdrawn-live-video-generator

Prerequisites¶

Requirement	Details
Nothing for h3-prompt-writing	Pure Markdown + local reference files - no API calls, no keys, no runtime
MiniMax account	platform.minimax.io for H3 API access (generation only)
MiniMax Hub	The 8 canvas skills target the Hub's `hub_generate_video` / `hub_generate_image` canvas workflow
Hermes Agent	Any version that reads SKILL.md and local files

Capabilities¶

h3-prompt-writing (portable - 7,857 installs)¶

Agent Skills format (name/description/compatibility frontmatter). Explicitly portable: "no external API calls, MiniMax Hub tools, or proprietary runtime required." Ships two prompt guides under references/: base-en.txt (text/keyframe modes) and ref-en.txt (full-reference Ref2VA mode).

Mode	What it does
T2VA	Builds the full audiovisual timeline from text
I2VA	Starts from a first frame, develops forward
FL2VA	Describes the continuous path between first and last frames
L2VA	Infers an opening that converges on the supplied last frame
Ref2VA	Full-reference rewrites with `subject_definitions`, `summary`, `retention_analysis`, `detailed_description`, `overall_soundscape`, `non_diegetic_music`

Key fields: integrated_multimodal_description, overall_soundscape, non_diegetic_music - exact field names, section order, and timing notation matter.

MiniMax Hub canvas skills (platform-bound)¶

Skill	Installs	Notes
brand-promo-video-generator	2,629	Hub canvas workflow
music-video-subtitle-generator	2,609	Hub canvas workflow
handdrawn-live-video-generator	2,588	Hub canvas workflow
minimalist-product-ad-generator, 3d-animation-short-generator, papercraft-stop-motion-explainer, paper-collage-explainer-generator, co-op-game-intro-generator	-	Hub-bound; per README "not portable to generic agent harnesses"

CorpusIQ Use Cases¶

Use Case	How
UGC video prompt engineering	Apply H3 T2VA/I2VA prompt structures when scripting CorpusIQ UGC videos - the field ordering and timing notation are reusable outside MiniMax
Brand promo video briefs	brand-promo-video-generator for CorpusIQ product-ad briefs (requires MiniMax Hub)
Prompt-pattern research	base-en.txt / ref-en.txt are portable multimodal prompt-structure references - feed into the CorpusIQ UGC pipeline regardless of model
Multimodal answer enrichment	H3's audio-visual timeline format (integrated_multimodal_description + overall_soundscape) is a reusable structure for CorpusIQ visual answers

Troubleshooting¶

Issue	Fix
Hub skills fail outside MiniMax Hub	Expected - the 8 canvas skills call `hub_generate_video` etc. Use only `h3-prompt-writing` in generic agent harnesses
`npx skills add` lists 9 skills but installs none	Install per-skill with `--skill h3-prompt-writing`
Missing license	The repo has no LICENSE file (GitHub API reports none) - internal review recommended before commercial reuse of the prompt guides

Verification¶

# List what the bundle provides
npx skills add minimax-ai/minimax-h3 --list

# After install, confirm the portable skill is present
ls ~/.hermes/skills/h3-prompt-writing/SKILL.md

Security¶

No skills.sh security audits are published for this publisher (Trust Hub / Socket / Snyk verdicts all absent as of Sep 14, 2026).

Audit	Status
Gen Agent Trust Hub	Not published
Socket	Not published
Snyk	Not published

h3-prompt-writing itself performs no network calls and ships only local Markdown reference files. The Hub-bound skills require a MiniMax account and the Hub runtime. Review the repo before adopting the Hub workflow into production pipelines.

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