runway-api

Runway API Skills

Video generation at scale. Generate videos, images, and audio with Runway's API — batch Ad campaigns, product videos, multishot stories, and creative iteration. Supports seedance2, gen4.5, veo3, Nano, Banana Pro, and more.

Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and other compatible agents.

Two Ways to Use

1. Generate media at scale

Tell your agent what to create and it handles the rest — calls the API, polls for completion, downloads the result. Generate one asset or orchestrate hundreds.

Generate a 15-second product video from this image using seedance2

Generate a video for each of these 5 product photos, 9:16 ratio for Instagram Reels

Create a voiceover for this ad script, then generate a sound effect of applause

2. Integrate into your app

Guide your agent through adding Runway capabilities to a server-side project: verify compatibility, set up credentials, write framework-specific routes, and handle edge cases like file uploads and task polling.

Set up Runway video generation in my Next.js app

Installation

Claude Code (community marketplace)

claude plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community
claude plugin install runway-api-skills@claude-community

You can also run /plugin in Claude Code, open Discover, search for runway-api-skills, and install from there. After installing or updating plugins, run /reload-plugins if skills do not appear immediately.

Other agents (npx skills)

npx skills add runwayml/skills

Select all the skills with your keyboard (Space to select, arrow keys to navigate), then press Enter to install.

Prerequisites

• A Runway developer account with prepaid credits ($10 minimum)
• For generation skills: uv (Python package runner) and RUNWAYML_API_SECRET env var
• For integration skills: a server-side project — Node.js 18+ or Python 3.8+ with a backend framework

Available Skills

Generation (run directly)

Generate media assets directly — your agent runs the scripts, polls for completion, and saves the output.

Skill	Description
rw-generate-video	Generate videos: text-to-video, image-to-video, video-to-video
rw-generate-image	Generate images: text-to-image with optional reference images
rw-generate-audio	Generate audio: TTS, sound effects, voice isolation, dubbing, voice conversion

Integration (add to your app)

Add Runway generation to your server-side project with framework-specific code.

Skill	Description
rw-integrate-video	Text-to-video, image-to-video, video-to-video, and character performance generation
rw-integrate-image	Text-to-image generation with optional reference images via @Tag syntax
rw-integrate-audio	Text-to-speech, sound effects, voice isolation, dubbing, and speech-to-speech

Getting Started

Skill	Description
rw-recipe-full-setup	End-to-end setup: compatibility check → API key → SDK install → integration code → test
rw-check-compatibility	Analyze your project to verify it can safely call the Runway API server-side
rw-setup-api-key	Guide through account creation, SDK installation, and environment variable configuration
rw-check-org-details	Query your organization's rate limits, credit balance, usage tier, and daily generation counts

Characters (Real-Time Avatars)

Skill	Description
rw-integrate-characters	Create GWM-1 avatars and set up server-side session management for real-time conversations
rw-integrate-character-embed	Embed avatar call UI in React apps using @runwayml/avatars-react
rw-integrate-documents	Add knowledge base documents to avatars for domain-specific conversations

Utilities