Layer Video Generation

Overview

Video models take a prompt the way a director takes a shot list, not the way an illustrator takes a brief. A video prompt describes what changes over the clip. A prompt that only describes the scene yields a near-still image with drifting artefacts, which is the most common failure here.

Pick the use case first: text_to_video from nothing, image_to_video to animate an existing frame, video_extend to continue a clip, video_editing to alter one. The loop and spend gate are in the layer skill. Assembling finished clips into one deliverable is layer-video-timeline.

If a sibling skill named here is missing from your available skills, ask the user to install it (npx skills add layerai/skills --skill <name>); unattended, proceed from tool schemas and flag the gap.

Anchor on an image whenever one exists