replicate

replicate is an Open Design catalogue entry for a skill that discovers, compares, and runs AI models through Replicate's API. It targets generative media pipelines, image, audio, and video, where teams frequently swap between models to find the best quality or cost tradeoff. The problem it solves is the friction of exploring and switching among many hosted models: the skill frames model discovery, comparison, and execution as a single agent-driven capability backed by Replicate.

In this catalogue, the entry is a thin advertisement rather than the executable skill. The SKILL.md describes the capability, lists trigger phrases such as "replicate", "run ai model", "model comparison", and "replicate api", and points to the upstream source curated by Replicate. To run the real workflow with its original scripts and references, users install the upstream bundle from github.com/replicate/skills into their active agent's skills directory. The catalogue entry contains no API code or credentials itself; actual runs require access to Replicate's API.

Intended users are ML practitioners, creative technologists, and product teams building image, audio, or video generation pipelines that change models often. Typical use cases include benchmarking candidate models against each other and wiring a chosen Replicate model into a generation pipeline, once the upstream bundle and Replicate API access are configured.