| name | comfy-director |
| description | Use when asked to make a narrative video — an ad, brand film, short, trailer, music video, or any multi-shot clip that tells a story (not a single shot or loop). Also use when a video was rejected for "no story", "doesn't flow", "feels like a montage", or characters that change between shots. |
Comfy Director
Story first, pictures second. Multi-shot AI films fail in the edit, not the
render: beats that don't cause each other read as a montage wearing a story's
clothes, no matter how good each clip looks.
REQUIRED BACKGROUND: the comfy skill (CLI mechanics + the recipe path —
apply/capture/foreach — for reusable multi-stage graphs). On any failed job,
comfy-debug.
Order of operations
- Concept — one idea a stranger can retell.
- Screenplay — before touching the pipeline. Deliver it to the user first.
- Shot list — each scene mapped to a continuity strategy.
- Audio design — against the screenplay's emotional beats, not after picture.
- Produce → conform → QC.
Skipping 2 and jumping to renders is the #1 cause of killed cuts.
Screenplay rules
- One protagonist the camera can follow. Recognizable in every shot.
- Causality test: every cut answers "and BECAUSE of that…" — never
"and then, somewhere else…". If a beat can be reordered without breaking
anything, it isn't a story yet.
- Stranger test: someone with zero context must retell the plot in two
sentences ("X wanted A, B stopped them, they did C, so D").
- Beats carry timings that sum to the target runtime.
Concept rules
