Who it is forA developer who wants text-to-video without per-clip cloud fees.
The problemHosted video models charge per clip and keep your prompts.
The outcomeAn MP4 rendered on your own NVIDIA GPU from a text prompt.
What you need first
- Linux with an NVIDIA GPU (WSL2 on Windows)
- About 54 GB of disk for H3 weights
- 12 GiB or more VRAM for the supported INT8 tiers
Steps
- Clone the release with
git clone --depth 1 --branch v0.1.0 https://github.com/agent-next/video-agent - Install the engine and weights with
bash scripts/install.sh - Check health with
open-video status - Generate with
open-video run "waves at sunset, golden hour" --duration 10 --model h3 --output out.mp4
Prompt for your agent
Install agent-next/video-agent v0.1.0, run `open-video status`, then generate <prompt> with `open-video run` for 8 seconds. Report the output path and confirm the MP4 plays and matches the requested duration.
Caveat. The install downloads about 54 GB of weights, and v0.1.0 supports only MiniMax H3.
Use this in your AI agent
Ask your agent
Using the Deduped MCP, get the setup steps for agent-next/video-agent and "Generate short videos locally on your own GPU"
Add Deduped to Claude Code once
claude mcp add --transport http deduped https://dedupedai.com/mcp
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