higgsfield-ai-prompt-skill

Use this skill whenever the user asks anything about Higgsfield AI — writing or refining video/image prompts, choosing a model (Kling, Sora 2, Veo, Wan, Seedance, Minimax Hailuo, DoP, Soul, Nano Banana, Seedream, Flux, GPT Image, etc.), camera controls, named motion presets, Soul ID character consistency, Cinema Studio 2.5/3.0, Vibe Motion, troubleshooting failed generations, credit optimization, Photodump, or any mention of higgsfield.ai. Also trigger on generic "write me a video prompt" or "make me an AI video prompt" requests when Higgsfield is the user's configured platform.

Rewrites scene descriptions using professional cinematography language, structures prompts with a six-slot formula (camera + subject + action + setting + style + lighting), and diagnoses content filter rejections via a preflight linter. Use whenever the user asks for a Seedance 2.0 / Seedance Pro prompt, describes a scene for Seedance generation, mentions Seedance, reports a Seedance generation failure or flagged prompt, or is burning credits on Seedance regenerations.

Use when the user asks about Higgsfield Assist (the built-in GPT-5 copilot), how to use the platform's native AI assistant, credit optimization strategies, plan selection, how to get more from fewer credits, or platform efficiency tips.

Use when the user asks about audio in Higgsfield videos, needs to add dialogue or lip-sync, wants sound effects or ambient sound in generated video, asks about music or BGM in output, or is using any audio-capable model (Kling 3.0, Seedance 1.5 Pro, Seedance 2.0, Veo 3/3.1, Grok Imagine Video). Also use when the user's prompt would benefit from audio direction but they haven't mentioned it. Also use when the user wants standalone audio — a soundtrack, ambience bed, multi-speaker scene audio (Seed Audio 1.0), or text-to-speech voiceover.

Guides users through professional filmmaking workflows in Higgsfield Cinema Studio, including creating multi-shot sequences, configuring optical stacks, applying color grading, managing Soul Cast AI actors, and structuring per-scene prompts with Director Panel camera movements. Use when the user mentions Cinema Studio, Cinema Studio 2.5, Cinema Studio 3.0, Soul Cast, color grading, multi-shot video, shot sequences, storyboard workflow, Hero Frame, optical stack, keyframe interpolation, Elements system (@Characters/@Locations/@Props), Speed Ramp, Director Panel, Higgsfield Popcorn, Single Shot / Multi-Shot Auto / Multi-Shot Manual modes, Reference Anchor, Smart shot control, or any professional filmmaking workflow inside Higgsfield.

Controls facial expressions in Seedance 2.0 with FACS (Facial Action Coding System) Action Unit codes — muscle-level direction (AU12 = lip-corner puller, AU6 = cheek raiser) instead of emotion labels. Use whenever the user wants precise facial acting, a forced/uncanny/mixed expression, micro-performance in a close-up, monologue or dialogue facial beats, a 'which AU code for anger/fear/disgust' answer, or to generate a FACS reference sheet for a character. Pairs with higgsfield-soul Micro-Expressions (named expressions), higgsfield-audio (dialogue + lip-sync), and higgsfield-gpt-image-2 (the reference-sheet image).

Use when the user wants to generate a cinematic still image on Higgsfield, asks about shot framing, camera angle, or composition for image prompts, needs a specific shot type (close-up, wide shot, cowboy shot, etc.), or is working with [img] reference-based image generation. Covers distance & size shots, camera angles, and camera movement keywords optimized for AI image models (Soul 2.0, Nano Banana, Seedream, GPT Image, Flux, etc.).

Use when the user mentions Marketing Studio, DTC Ads, ad video, UGC video, the marketing_studio_video MCP model, or wants to generate one of the 9 Marketing Studio ad presets (UGC, Tutorial, Unboxing, Hyper Motion, Product Review, TV Spot, Wild Card, UGC Virtual Try On, Pro Virtual Try On). Also triggers on hook+setting picklist questions, preset-avatar / custom-avatar / text-generated-avatar handling, 4–15s ad video questions, or any reference to Higgsfield's ad-video product surface. Cross-surface workflow handoffs (GPT Image 2.0 / Soul Cinema / Nano Banana Pro / ms_image image gen → Marketing Studio video) covered in the companion cross-surface-workflow.md.

Use when the user wants to create a complete multi-shot video, asks how to chain Higgsfield tools together, wants to build a short film or branded content series, asks "what's the full workflow", needs to connect Popcorn → image → video → Recast → audio → assembly, or wants to understand how the platform works as a production system rather than isolated tools.

Use when building, writing, refining, or structuring a Higgsfield AI prompt. Covers the MCSLA formula, prompt structure, narrative vs. timestamped formats, and how to write for both text-to-video and image-to-video workflows.

Use this skill AUTOMATICALLY before writing any Higgsfield prompt. Query the memory databases for relevant past failures and pre-apply known fixes before the user even hits generate. Triggers include: any request to write a Higgsfield prompt, any use of the higgsfield-prompt skill, any mention of generating a video or image on Higgsfield, any MCSLA prompt construction. This skill should run SILENTLY in the background — don't announce it, just apply what's known. If the databases are empty, skip silently and proceed with normal prompt generation.

Turns a brief, script, scene breakdown, treatment, or story idea into ONE connected director's shotlist for Seedance 2.0 — a single editable HTML artifact with a global Style Prefix, an @-asset glossary, and named per-scene prompts (1a, 1b, 2a…) each in Style → Characters → Scene → CUT 1..N form. Use whenever the user says 'make a shotlist', 'break this script into prompts', 'generate Seedance prompts for this ad/film', 'turn this brief into a shot list', 'director's shotlist', or wants many connected scene prompts rather than one. Also use to revise an existing shotlist (edit-once-propagates: 'change the style prefix everywhere', 'rewrite scene 4', 'split prompt 6'). Each prompt targets 15s; longer scenes split across 1a/1b/1c under one scene number.

Creates and manages reusable character profiles (Soul IDs) for consistent facial and stylistic identity across multiple image and video generations. Provides identity-vs-motion prompt separation, character sheet creation workflows, micro-expression direction, and Soul Cast AI actor configuration. Use when the user wants to maintain character consistency across multiple generations, asks about Soul ID, creating reusable characters, or generating consistent people across different scenes and shots.

Use when the user mentions the Higgsfield CLI (binaries `higgsfield` / `higgs` / `hf`, `higgsfield auth login`, `higgsfield generate create`, the `@higgsfield/cli` npm package), the Higgsfield MCP custom connector (`mcp.higgsfield.ai/mcp`), Higgsfield's bundled skills (`higgsfield-generate` / `higgsfield-soul` / `higgsfield-product-photoshoot` invoked as `/higgsfield:generate` etc.), or asks how this skill coexists with those tools (`do I need both`, `how does this work with the CLI/MCP/skills`).

Use when a Higgsfield generation fails, produces poor quality, looks wrong, doesn't match the prompt, or the user needs to fix or improve an output.

Pre-production story-and-character development for Higgsfield projects — the upstream layer that decides WHAT to prompt before any model runs. Use when the user wants to build a character, design a world, develop a story or premise, create a character sheet / character bible / story bible, lock a visual style or 'visual DNA', plan a multi-shot narrative with consistent characters, or says things like 'help me design a character', 'build the world', 'I need a backstory', 'make this character consistent across shots', 'develop my film/series concept', or 'I keep getting generic AI characters'. Routes the locked outputs into higgsfield-prompt + the right model. Adapted from Higgsfield's official character-design framework by @vavavinca.

Use when the user mentions GPT Image 2.0, gpt-image-2, GPT-Image-2 prompts, or wants to generate an image with GPT Image 2.0. Covers the three-format prompt taxonomy (Format A structured JSON for UI mockups and layout-dense images; Format B dense cinematic prose for single-subject scenes; Format C auto-derive meta-prompt for theme-only concepts), per-format craft patterns, output conventions, the 6-item pre-delivery checklist, and cross-surface workflow context (companion static-ads-workflow.md for ad recreation; higgsfield-marketing-studio cross-surface-workflow.md §3 for ms_image / DTC Ads Higgsfield-native alternative).

Use when the user asks which model to use, wants to compare models, or needs guidance on selecting between Kling, Sora 2, Wan, Seedance, Veo 3, Minimax Hailuo, Soul, Nano Banana, or other Higgsfield engines.

Use when the user asks about camera movements, shot types, or how to describe camera behavior in a Higgsfield prompt. Contains all named camera controls with descriptions, best use cases, and example prompt phrases.

Writes, improves, or rewrites Seedance 2.0 prompts that TRANSFORM footage the user already has (video-to-video), rather than building a scene from scratch. Use whenever a real clip is the starting point and they want to: add a VFX element (set a head or hair on fire, transform a hand, make a limb invisible), swap the environment around a preserved subject (desert, clouds, lava, a neon city), drop a giant photoreal creature behind or onto a subject/landmark, relight or regrade so subject and added elements read as one shot, sync a crash-zoom or push-in to a spoken line or timecode, or generate a matching transformed start frame to animate from. Also use when they paste such a prompt and ask to change its lighting, timing, creature, or runtime, or say 'make a Seedance prompt for this video' with a clip attached. This is the video-to-video specialization; for a brand-new scene from image references with no source clip to preserve, higgsfield-seedance applies instead.

End-to-end motion-design / animated-ad creation flow on Higgsfield via the MCP connector. Use when the user wants to create motion design, animate a logo, make a video from an image, build an animated ad or brand promo, turn a product into motion, or says 'make a motion', 'motion design', 'animate this', 'make a video from my logo', 'animated brand', 'motion graphics', 'brand motion', 'kinetic graphics', 'promo video', or 'ad video'. Drives a storyboard-first pipeline: brief → storyboard sheet (GPT Image 2) → video (Seedance 2.0) — an AI-generated pixel video clip. Distinct from higgsfield-motion (the named camera/motion preset library) and from higgsfield-vibe-motion (deterministic Remotion code with crisp text); use vibe-motion instead when the text/logo must stay perfectly crisp, editable, and deployable as code.

Use when the user asks about Vibe Motion, motion graphics, kinetic typography, animated text, brand animations, logo animations, infographic animation, presentation animation, data-driven video, or prompt-to-motion-graphic workflows. Vibe Motion is fundamentally different from video generation — it creates deterministic code-based motion graphics, not AI-predicted pixel sequences. Use this when the text/logo must stay perfectly crisp and editable (code). For a cinematic/kinetic AI-generated video ad built from a storyboard (pixel render, native audio), use higgsfield-motion-design instead.

Use when the user mentions Higgsfield Canvas, a node-based or node graph workspace, an infinite board/canvas, chaining generations into a pipeline, or wants to wire prompts → images → videos across models on one surface. Covers what Canvas is, the node categories, the seven models that run inside Canvas, the named canvas patterns (Simple Seedance, Extend Video, Image Edit, StoryBoard With Elements, Long Video fan-out), the build-free / generate-paid cost model, reusable templates, assets-as-nodes, and Shared Canvas live collaboration. Also trigger on 'Higgsfield ComfyUI alternative', 'node workflow', or 'connect nodes to build a scene/campaign'.

Use when the user wants to run a full ad-campaign pipeline on top of Higgsfield Marketing Studio — 'create a campaign', 'build a content plan', 'run the content pipeline', 'generate 100 UGC videos', 'plan and schedule a launch', 'make a batch of ads from my product', or 'how much did this save vs traditional production'. Covers the 5-stage orchestration (Research → Plan → Generate → Publish → Report), the UGC-first 5-format campaign mix (UGC Entertainment, Street Interview, Unboxing, Product Review, ASMR), the even-split allocation math, button-driven onboarding, the per-batch generation gate, and the publish + cost-report tail (satellite). Defers all Marketing Studio API ground-truth (presets, params, hooks, avatars) to higgsfield-marketing-studio.

Use when the user wants to apply a named Higgsfield motion preset, asks about VFX presets, transformation effects, elemental effects, or transition presets. Contains the full named preset library with descriptions and prompt usage.

Use when the user is unsure which Higgsfield workspace fits their task, needs to decide between Cinema Studio / Lipsync Studio / Draw-to-Video / Sora 2 Trends / Click to Ad / Higgsfield Audio, or is asking 'what should I use for X'. This sub-skill routes by production problem BEFORE model selection.

Use when the user asks about Higgsfield's one-click Apps, wants to know which app to use for a specific output, or needs guidance on the Apps workflow.

Use when the user asks about Mixed Media, wants to apply artistic preset styles to an image (Noir, Sketch, Paper, Canvas, Particles, Neon, etc.), combine multiple artistic treatments, or create stylized non-photorealistic outputs.

Use when the user asks about Moodboard, building a moodboard from reference images, curated moodboard presets, Soul Hex color transfer, applying a visual style direction to generations, or named moodboard styles like Y2K studio, Warm ambient, Theatrical light, Swag era, Flash editorial, Street photography, Asian nostalgia, Retro BW, Surreal solarization, etc.

Use when the user wants a genre-specific scene template, starting point for a type of video (action, horror, romance, product ad, documentary, sci-fi, dance, etc.), or asks for prompt examples for a specific style of content.

Use when the user asks about visual styles, aesthetics, color grades, film looks, or how to set the tone and atmosphere of a Higgsfield generation.