# video-prompting

Drafts model-specific video generation prompts and creates character-sheet prompts for image models to maintain character consistency.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 602 installs · ★ 186
- Author: Square-Zero-Labs
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/Square-Zero-Labs/video-prompting-skill/tree/HEAD/video-prompting/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/video-prompting

## What it does

The skill handles two distinct workflows: drafting video prompts and generating reference sheets for image models. The character-sheet path produces turnarounds and expression sheets so an identity stays stable before you run image-to-video passes.

For video requests, it pulls model-specific guidance for engines like MiniMax H3, Seedance 2.5, Wan 2.2, Veo 3, and LTX. It checks the input mode, separating text-to-video from image-to-video or reference-driven clips. It deliberately keeps resolution, aspect ratio, and clip duration outside the prompt text, because injecting control flags into model prompts degrades output quality.

In image-to-video mode, the skill uses the source image as an anchor and avoids redundant visual descriptions. Instead, it directs the prompt toward camera motion, subject action, and sound.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Square-Zero-Labs/video-prompting-skill --skill video-prompting -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/video-prompting/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/video-prompting/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Square-Zero-Labs/video-prompting-skill --skill video-prompting -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/video-prompting/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Square-Zero-Labs/video-prompting-skill --skill video-prompting -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/video-prompting/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install Square-Zero-Labs/video-prompting-skill video-prompting
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/video-prompting/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Square-Zero-Labs/video-prompting-skill --skill video-prompting -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/Square-Zero-Labs/video-prompting-skill --path video-prompting
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/video-prompting/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Square-Zero-Labs/video-prompting-skill --skill video-prompting -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/Square-Zero-Labs/video-prompting-skill/tree/HEAD/video-prompting/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- format prompts according to rules of specific video models
- generate consistent character turnaround sheets for image models
- define camera movement and subject action for image-to-video inputs
- structure multi-beat timelines for Seedance 2.5 and MiniMax H3

## Example prompts
- Draft an image-to-video prompt for MiniMax H3: slow camera push-in on a detective sitting in a dim diner.
- Create a character reference sheet prompt with front, side, and three-quarter angles for an astronaut.
- Write a Seedance 2.5 text-to-video prompt for a five-second sequence of a drone flying through morning fog.

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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---
name: video-prompting
description: Draft and refine prompts for video generation models (including text-to-video, image/keyframe-to-video, and reference-driven generation), and create character-sheet prompts for image models when the goal is character consistency before image-to-video. Use when a user asks for a "video prompt", a model-specific prompt such as MiniMax H3, Seedance 2.0, Seedance 2.5, Ovi, Veo 3, Wan 2.2, Wan Animate 2, LTX-2, LTX-2.3, or LTX-2.5, or a consistent-character prompt such as "character sheet prompt", "character turnaround", "character reference sheet", or "photographic identity sheet".
---

# Video Prompting

## Overview

Turn a user’s intent into either:

- a strong, model-compliant video prompt, or
- a strong image-model prompt for a character sheet that will later support image-to-video consistency.

Model-specific video guidance lives in `references/models/`. Character-sheet guidance lives in `references/workflows/character-sheets.md`.
This file is the entry point: route to the right path, ask the minimum clarifying questions, then draft the prompt in the expected format.

## Model Index

- Ovi: `references/models/ovi/prompting.md`
- Veo 3 / 3.1: `references/models/veo3/prompting.md`
- Wan 2.2: `references/models/wan22/prompting.md`
- Wan Animate 2: `references/models/wan-animate-2/prompting.md`
- Seedance 2.0: `references/models/seedance2/prompting.md`
- Seedance 2.5: `references/models/seedance2-5/prompting.md`
- MiniMax H3: `references/models/minimax-h3/prompting.md`
- LTX-2: `references/models/ltx2/prompting.md`
- LTX-2.3: `references/models/ltx2-3/prompting.md`
- LTX-2.5: `references/models/ltx2-5/prompting.md`

## Workflow Index

- Character sheets for consistent characters: `references/workflows/character-sheets.md`

To add a new model later: create `references/models/<model>/prompting.md`, then add it to this index.

To add a new workflow later: create `references/workflows/<workflow>.md`, then add it to the Workflow Index.

## Global video-prompt rules

These rules apply to every video model reference:

- Never include the model name, model version, duration, aspect ratio, resolution, or API/control parameter names in the final prompt text unless the selected model's required prompt schema explicitly includes timing. MiniMax H3 alignment instructions and shot timestamps are such an exception.
- Otherwise, use duration only as internal planning context for how many action beats the prompt can support.
- If the user asks for parameters or the model requires them, provide them outside the prompt in a separate recommended-parameters line.
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