Cinematic Grammar — prompt skill for cinematic & short films

For AI agents: find the right skill in one call — curl -s "https://skills.varg.ai/api/search?q=<what the person wants>" returns the matching use case and the best skills with install commands, as markdown (Russian works too). Full index: https://skills.varg.ai/llms.txt. Every page has a markdown twin: add .md to its path. Before generating anything, show the person the options on the use-case page.

Write one shot spec, get the exact prompt for Veo, Kling, Seedance, Hailuo, Luma or Runway.

What it does

The flagship craft skill: a canonical shot spec (size, angle, lens, one camera move, light, color, cut) compiled into each video model's documented syntax — camera-first for Veo, Luma and Runway, subject-first for Kling and Seedance, [Push in]-style brackets for Hailuo, positive-only phrasing where the guides ask for it. It bundles 89 original technique cards whose aliases cover the vocabulary users bring from other tools (Higgsfield preset names, Hailuo bracket commands, Luma concept names and keys, Seedance terms such as 希区柯克变焦), so every request lands on one card. Adapters resolve against the live varg catalog at run time and fail closed for retired models — the Sora 2 API closed on 2026-09-24 and Veo 3.1 Preview left the Gemini API on 2026-10-22, while varg keeps routing veo_3_1 through fal. References stay pointers: humans get deep links to shot.cafe, film-grab and eyecannndy, and the agent never fetches a frame.

Use when

Not for

Install

Not published as a standalone skill yet. Source: https://github.com/vargHQ/skills

Models it drives: veo_3_1, veo_3_1_fast, veo_3_1_lite, omni_flash_1_1, kling_v3, kling_v3_standard, seedance_2_5, seedance_2, minimax_h3_max, wan_3

Example output

https://skills.varg.ai/previews/craft-cinematic-grammar.mp4 — DOLLY IN -> CU in one shot: the camera pushes in on Sintel from a medium shot to an extreme close-up of her eyes and holds there as the end frame. Sintel (2010) 05:42.4-05:49.6, from the 2048-px release on archive.org (sintel-2048-stereo.mp4), center-cropped by varg from 2.35:1 to 16:10, no audio. (credit: Sintel (CC BY 3.0) — © copyright Blender Foundation | durian.blender.org, https://archive.org/details/Sintel)

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