MiniMax Shader Dev — effect skill for backgrounds & shaders
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36 GLSL shader techniques for agents: ray marching, SDFs, fluids, particles, noise and post, ShaderToy-style or WebGL2.
- Type: Effect · Backgrounds & shaders
- Slug:
minimax-shader-dev - Status: live
- Publisher: MiniMax (vendor)
- License: MIT
- Source: https://github.com/MiniMax-AI/skills/tree/main/skills/shader-dev
- Works in: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor
- Cost: Free, MIT: renders in the browser, no API calls
- Adoption: 2,668 installs, 13,814 GitHub stars (skills.sh, 2026-11-10)
What it does
One skill that routes the agent across 36 GLSL techniques, each with an implementation guide and a deeper reference: ray marching and 2D/3D SDFs, CSG and domain repetition, lighting models, shadows and ambient occlusion, path tracing, procedural noise and domain warping, Voronoi, terrain, water and atmosphere, volumetrics, fluids, particles, cellular automata, multipass buffers, post-processing and even sound synthesis. Techniques are written ShaderToy-style, and WebGL2 adaptation rules turn them into standalone HTML pages that HyperFrames or a headless capture can render to video. With a word-per-beat type skill it covers the wanted card want-word-per-beat-shader-promo.
Use when
- a ray-marched SDF scene, fractal or volumetric cloud
- procedural noise, domain warping, Voronoi or water for a background
- a particle, fluid or cellular-automata animation in a fragment shader
- post-processing, camera effects or anti-aliasing for a WebGL2 page
- port ShaderToy-style GLSL to a standalone HTML page
Not for
- Shaders for a specific engine's material system (Unity, Unreal, Godot)
- Picking a ready-made background without code: see Paper Shaders
Install
- Claude Code:
npx skills add MiniMax-AI/skills --skill shader-dev -a claude-code - Codex:
npx skills add MiniMax-AI/skills --skill shader-dev -a codex - Cursor:
npx skills add MiniMax-AI/skills --skill shader-dev -a cursor - Any agent, with the vargai CLI:
vargai install minimax-shader-dev
More backgrounds & shaders skills
- PixiJS Blend Modes: Composite PixiJS v8 layers with add, multiply and screen, or advanced modes like overlay and color-burn.
- PixiJS Custom Rendering: Write custom shaders, uniforms and batchers for PixiJS v8 that run on both WebGL and WebGPU.
- PixiJS Filters: Add blur, displacement, color-matrix and custom GLSL/WGSL filters to PixiJS v8 scenes without killing FPS.
- PixiJS Meshes: Deform images with custom geometry in PixiJS v8: meshes, planes, ropes and 2.5D perspective corners.
- PixiJS Particles: Render thousands of lightweight particles in PixiJS v8 with ParticleContainer and dynamic properties.
- WebGPU Three.js TSL: TSL node materials, GPU compute, post-processing and WGSL for three.js WebGPURenderer, by the Three.js Roadmap author.
Run the generation on varg
varg is one API key for the models these skills drive — Seedance 2.5, Kling 4, Veo 3.1, Wan 3, Nano Banana 2.1, GPT Image 2.5, ElevenLabs v4 and 200+ more — billed in credits, with a cost estimate before anything runs.
- Any agent with a terminal:
curl -fsSL https://varg.ai/install | sh(Windows:irm https://varg.ai/install.ps1 | iex), thenvargai loginand every model is a command —vargai generate_video …,vargai estimate_cost …(https://varg.ai/how-to/cli/) - Claude Code:
claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg(skill + hosted MCP) - Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw:
npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai -a <agent> -y - Grok and any agent that reads SKILL.md:
npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai, or point it at the skill's SKILL.md - Claude.ai, ChatGPT, any MCP client: connect
https://mcp.varg.ai/mcp - API key: https://varg.ai/dashboard/api · Model specs: https://varg.ai/models/llms.txt