Video Prompting (Agent Skill)

This is an Agent Skill for drafting and refining prompts for video generation models (text-to-video and image-to-video), and for creating character-sheet prompts for image models when the goal is consistent characters before image-to-video.

Supported video-model guides include Seedance 2.0, LTX-2, LTX-2.3, Sora, Veo 3/3.1, Wan 2.2, and Ovi.

The skill also includes a character-sheet workflow for:

• reusable turnaround sheets
• expression sheets and prop callouts
• scene-still handoff prompts for image-to-video pipelines
• photoreal photographic identity sheets for real-person consistency

It follows the Agent Skills spec (agentskills.io).

Tutorial

Agent Skills walkthrough and demo of this skill:

Contents

• video-prompting/SKILL.md: skill entry point and workflow
• video-prompting/references/models/: model-specific prompting guides
• video-prompting/references/workflows/character-sheets.md: character-sheet and identity-sheet workflow for image-model prompting

What It Covers

• video prompt drafting for text-to-video and image-to-video
• model-specific routing for supported video models
• character-sheet prompting for consistent characters across longer projects
• photoreal identity-sheet prompting when the user wants real-person reference photography rather than a stylized turnaround
• recommended handoff order: character sheet -> scene still -> video prompt

Install

Claude

In Claude, install the skill using whichever format your Claude product prompts for:

• If it asks for a .skill file: see instructions below to build a .skill bundle.
• If it asks for a folder: select video-prompting-skill/video-prompting/.

Codex

Codex loads skills from skill directories (user-scoped or repo-scoped). Pick one:

• User-scoped (default): ~/.codex/skills/<skill-name>/
• Repo-scoped: .codex/skills/<skill-name>/ (committed with your project)

To install user-scoped:

mkdir -p ~/.codex/skills
cp -R video-prompting-skill/video-prompting ~/.codex/skills/video-prompting

Restart Codex so it re-scans skills.

Build (.skill file)

The .skill file is just a zip archive of the skill folder (useful for Claude import/sharing). Codex does not require a .skill bundle.

To generate the .skill zip file:

cd video-prompting-skill
mkdir -p dist
rm -f dist/video-prompting.skill
zip -r dist/video-prompting.skill video-prompting -x '**/.DS_Store'