Video Generation Provider Plugins
Building a Video Generation Provider Plugin Video gen provider plugins register a backend that services every tool call. Built in providers (xAI, FAL) ship as p
Video-gen provider plugins register a backend that services every tool call. Built-in providers (xAI, FAL) ship as plugins. Add a new one, or override a bundled one, by dropping a directory into . The tool exposes two modalities through one parameter: Edit and extend are intentionally out of scope. …
What this page covers
- The unified surface (one tool, two modalities)
- How discovery works
- Directory structure
- The VideoGenProvider ABC
- The plugin manifest
- The videogenerate schema
- Model families and endpoint routing (the FAL pattern)
- Selection precedence
- Response shape
- Where to save artifacts
- Testing
Section outline mirrored from the official Hermes Agent documentation. Follow any heading to read the complete text on the source site.
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