flux-3-prompt-doctor

name	flux-3-prompt-doctor
description	Use when diagnosing a FLUX 3 brief before generation. Resolve missing, conflicting, or schema-changing requirements.
metadata	{"author":"Black Forest Labs","version":"1.0.0","tags":"flux, flux-3, bfl, prompt-doctor, validation, routing"}

FLUX 3 Prompt Doctor

Resolve the decisions that change routing, payload, or production method before a brief becomes a prompt. Ask only blocking questions; use documented defaults or label assumptions for everything else. Preserve the user's product names, exact copy, source roles, and hard constraints verbatim. This skill does not write the final prompt or call the API.

Route by what must survive

Every request names its mode and carries the matching media field:

Requirement	Route
Generate the whole clip from words	mode: "t2v", no media
An image must appear on screen exactly as shot	mode: "i2v", keyframes
Bridge an exact opening and closing frame	mode: "i2v", two keyframes
Pass through visual waypoints	mode: "i2v", keyframes as a storyboard
Continue from an existing ending	mode: "v2v", start_video
Render an approved draft without replanning	mode: "draft_enhance", draft_cache

Two questions separate the image routes: must these exact pixels be on screen (keyframes)? Can the source simply be described (then attach nothing)? There is no field that carries a subject's identity without putting the source on screen; a brief that needs one either opens each shot from a keyframe containing the subject, or is a REVISE.

Feasibility

• Action budget: one subject action and one camera move per short clip. Revise briefs demanding many sequential actions, several locations, exact mechanisms, or multiple full dialogue lines.

• Shot structure: state one continuous unbroken take, or an explicit sequence:

  SHOT ONE: wide aerial of a desert highway at dawn, a single red car speeding through.
  HARD CUT. SHOT TWO: interior close-up, the driver's hands drumming the wheel to the radio.
  HARD CUT. SHOT THREE: from the roadside, the car shrinking into the heat haze.
  Warm engine hum under one continuous music bed across all three shots.
  

  Consecutive shots must contrast hard (scale, location, color) or the cut blends into a continuous take; each shot needs its own beat; one music bed can run across cuts.

• Contradictions to catch: locked-off camera plus tracking; extreme close-up plus establishing view; exact frame preservation plus major geometric change; one continuous shot plus hard cuts; production-critical generated typography with no post fallback; guaranteed speaker identity across separate generations.

• Reserve for deterministic post when exactness is a success condition: typography, subtitles, logos; frame-accurate sync; final mixing; precise mechanisms; cross-generation speaker identity. Generation creates footage and causal intent, not a compositor or final mix.

Verdict

Return exactly one state, with a reason, next action, and a compact handoff (templates/brief.md when it should be reusable):

• READY: route, assumptions, handoff. Recommend a draft first when the concept is unproven.
• NEEDS INFO: only the blocking questions.
• REVISE: name the conflict and the minimum repair.

Non-blocking warnings go under Production risks, not a fourth state. Field names and limits belong to the API reference; flag intent conflicts and leave schema validation to flux-3-generate.