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

Available Skills

Generation (run directly)

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

Integration (add to your app)

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

Getting Started

Characters (Real-Time Avatars)

Utilities

Supported Models

Video

Image

Audio

Characters

Supported Frameworks

The integration skills generate framework-specific code for:

• Node.js — Express, Fastify, Next.js (App Router & Pages Router), Remix, SvelteKit, Nuxt, Astro
• Python — FastAPI, Flask, Django
• Serverless — Vercel Functions, AWS Lambda, Cloudflare Workers

API Reference

• Base URL: https://api.dev.runwayml.com
• Auth header: Authorization: Bearer <RUNWAYML_API_SECRET>
• Version header: X-Runway-Version: 2024-11-06
• Official docs: docs.dev.runwayml.com
• API Reference: docs.dev.runwayml.com/api
• Developer portal: dev.runwayml.com

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

Quick Start

Generate media directly

Generate a 10-second video of a sunset over the ocean

Generate an image of a red door in a white wall

Create a voiceover saying "Welcome to our store" and save it as welcome.mp3

Integrate into a project

Set up Runway video generation in my Next.js app

Add an endpoint to generate videos from text prompts

License

MIT