VidMuse Skill

Use this skill when a task asks for VidMuse account state, subscription plan, model discovery, assets, style library entries, voice library entries, generation params, thread/message operations, or long-term memory operations. Treat the vidmuse command as the runtime for accessing VidMuse capabilities; keep user-facing answers focused on the VidMuse task unless the user asks about the command itself.

Workflow

1. Ensure the vidmuse command runtime exists.

   macOS, Linux, WSL, or Git Bash:

   if vidmuse_path="$(command -v vidmuse)"; then
     :
   else
     tmp="$(mktemp)"
     curl -fsSL "https://vidmuse.sandcdn.com/cli/install.sh" -o "$tmp"
     installed_path="$(VIDMUSE_CLI_VERSION="${VIDMUSE_CLI_VERSION:-latest}" bash "$tmp" | tail -n 1)"
     installed_dir="$(dirname "$installed_path")"
     case ":${PATH:-}:" in *":${installed_dir}:"*) ;; *) export PATH="${installed_dir}:${PATH:-}" ;; esac
   fi
   vidmuse --version
   

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   Windows PowerShell:

   if (-not (Get-Command vidmuse -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)) {
       $tmp = Join-Path $env:TEMP "install-vidmuse.ps1"
       Invoke-WebRequest "https://vidmuse.sandcdn.com/cli/install.ps1" -OutFile $tmp -UseBasicParsing
       $installedPath = (& powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File $tmp | Select-Object -Last 1)
       $installedDir = Split-Path -Parent $installedPath
       if (($env:PATH -split [System.IO.Path]::PathSeparator) -notcontains $installedDir) {
           $env:PATH = "$installedDir$([System.IO.Path]::PathSeparator)$env:PATH"
       }
   }
   vidmuse --version
   

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2. Authenticate when needed.

   First check whether the current session is already authenticated:

   vidmuse profile get --output json
   

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   If the command returns an auth error, ask before starting any login flow because browser and device login require user action.

   Use this decision tree:

   Environment	Command
   Local desktop with browser access	vidmuse login
   Headless or remote terminal with streaming output	vidmuse login --device
   Agent shell cannot keep a long-running command visible	vidmuse login --device --start, show the URL/code to the user, then run vidmuse login --device --complete after the user confirms authorization

3. For command routing, read references/command-map.md.

Local media runtime

The released CLI binary does not require Go. Account, model, asset, style, voice, thread, message, and memory commands require only the vidmuse binary and network access. Check extra tools before using local preview or rendering commands:

node --version
ffmpeg -version

When Node.js or FFmpeg is missing, do not install system packages without the user's approval. Tell the user which prerequisite is missing and offer the appropriate command:

# macOS (Homebrew)
brew install node ffmpeg

# Debian or Ubuntu
curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_22.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs ffmpeg

The render command uses npx --yes hyperframes@0.7.26 when no HYPERFRAMES_BIN is supplied. The first such render needs npm network access. Use NODE_BIN, FFMPEG_BIN, and HYPERFRAMES_BIN for nonstandard executable paths.

Output Contract

Default output mode is text. Add --output json only when structured parsing is needed. Do not add it to vidmuse render: its -o/--output flag specifies the rendered video file path.

Use text for compact plain-language responses. Nested lists and maps are rendered as indented blocks.

Use table only for short human-facing summaries because top-level structs, maps, lists, and lists of maps are rendered as tables when possible, while nested lists and maps stay compact inside table cells.

Paginated text/table output uses a human summary such as:

Showing 1-20 of 88

JSON output preserves structured fields such as limit, offset, total, and data when the API returns them.

Streams:

Exit codes:

Error handling:

1. Check the exit code first.
2. If exit code is 0, parse stdout only when json mode was requested.
3. If exit code is non-zero, show a concise error based on stderr.
4. For exit code 3, ask the user to run vidmuse login or vidmuse login --device.
5. For exit code 4, mention the network or API failure and retry only when the operation is read-only or explicitly safe to repeat.

Safety

Read-only commands may be run directly when the user asks for information. Mutating commands such as thread create, message send, memory create, memory update, memory append, memory push, and memory pop require explicit user intent.

Never print auth tokens, cookies, or full config files in the final answer because final answers can be saved to transcripts, shared as screenshots, or copied into bug reports.