# fal Prompting — prompt skill for prompts by model

> **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.

Prompt specific model families well: Kling, GPT Image 2 and Happy Horse guides, loaded only when needed.

- **Type:** [Prompt](https://skills.varg.ai/prompts.md) · [Prompts by model](https://skills.varg.ai/browse/skills/prompting.md)
- **Slug:** `fal-prompting`
- **Status:** live
- **Publisher:** fal (vendor, verified)
- **License:** MIT
- **Source:** https://github.com/fal-ai-community/skills/tree/main/skills/fal-prompting
- **Works in:** Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI
- **Requires:** fal API key (FAL_KEY), genmedia CLI
- **Cost:** Billed by fal per endpoint call
- **Adoption:** 513 installs, 256 GitHub stars (skills.sh, 2026-10-26)

## What it does

Model-family prompt craft for fal endpoints, with a table of which reference to load: separate guides for Kling, GPT Image 2 and Happy Horse. Its universal principles include preferring concrete visual facts over prestige adjectives and inspecting an endpoint's schema before assuming a control exists.

## Use when

- How do I prompt Kling or GPT Image 2?
- Prompts keep coming back generic
- Moving a prompt between model families

## Install

- Claude Code: `npx skills add fal-ai-community/skills --skill fal-prompting -a claude-code`
- Codex: `npx skills add fal-ai-community/skills --skill fal-prompting -a codex`
- Cursor: `npx skills add fal-ai-community/skills --skill fal-prompting -a cursor`
- Gemini CLI: `npx skills add fal-ai-community/skills --skill fal-prompting -a gemini-cli`

**Models it drives:** kling_v3, gpt_image_2, happy_horse

## Example output

https://skills.varg.ai/previews/fal-prompting.mp4 — 'Short legible text' pattern from fal's Happy Horse prompting guide: slow push-in on a bookshop window with a readable 'THE STARS BELOW' cover (credit: fal, https://fal.ai/learn/tools/prompting-happy-horse)

## More prompts by model skills

- [Replicate Prompt Images](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/replicate-prompt-images.md): Write better image prompts and edits: photographic language, lighting, text rendering, consistent characters.
- [Replicate Prompt Videos](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/replicate-prompt-videos.md): Prompt video models like a director: shots, camera motion, four audio layers, dialogue, time-coded beats.
- [Video Prompting Guide](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/inference-sh-video-prompting-guide.md): Write prompts that video models follow: shot types, camera moves and per-model tips from Veo to Sora.
- [FLUX 3 Prompt Doctor](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/flux-3-prompt-doctor.md): Diagnose a FLUX 3 video brief before spending: resolve missing, conflicting or schema-changing asks.
- [FLUX Image Best Practices](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/flux-image-best-practices.md): Prompt FLUX image models well: structure, JSON prompts, hex colors, typography and multi-reference edits.
- [AI Film Director (Visual Skills)](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/visual-skills-video-director.md): AI film director for video prompts: dramaturgy first (Murch, blocking, montage), then exact syntax per model.