@kolbo/mcp 1.114.0 → 1.114.2

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@kolbo/mcp",
-  "version": "1.114.0",
+  "version": "1.114.2",
   "description": "Kolbo AI MCP Server - Generate images, videos, music, speech, and sound effects from Claude Code",
   "main": "src/index.js",
   "bin": {

package/skill/GENERATED.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # AUTO-GENERATED — do not edit
 
-This tree is mirrored from kolbo-code@7434517, the single source of truth.
+This tree is mirrored from kolbo-code@f2ab5de, the single source of truth.
 Canonical source: packages/opencode/skills/kolbo/
 Distribution: .github/workflows/sync-skill-to-plugin.yml
 

package/skill/SKILL.md

@@ -1,19 +1,8 @@
 ---
-version: 0.9.24
+version: 0.9.25
 name: kolbo
 description: |
-  Generate, edit, analyze, and direct creative media through Kolbo AI: images,
-  video (Seedance, Veo, Kling, Hailuo), music, speech, sound, 3D, transcription,
-  Visual DNA, Creative Director batches, marketing assets, HTML artifacts, and
-  AI Docs, Flow node workflows and session/system prompts, and approved Blender scene control. Use for sophisticated AI
-  filmmaking as well as individual media:
-  scripts, production bibles, recurring characters and locations, acting,
-  dialogue, music performance, blocking, physics, multi-shot continuity,
-  connected scenes, prompt audits, feature-length production planning, end-to-end vertical micro-drama series (Micro-Drama Studio), and
-  direct Blender scene building through the connected Kolbo Blender plugin.
-
-  NOT for: unrelated standalone video editing / FFmpeg (use video-production), motion graphics
-  (use remotion-best-practices), code editing, or general chat.
+  Generate, edit, analyze, and direct creative media through Kolbo AI: images, video (Seedance, Veo, Kling, Hailuo), music, speech, sound, 3D, transcription, Visual DNA, Creative Director batches, marketing assets, HTML artifacts, and AI Docs, Flow node workflows and session/system prompts, and approved Blender scene control. Use for sophisticated AI filmmaking as well as individual media: scripts, production bibles, recurring characters and locations, acting, dialogue, music performance, blocking, physics, multi-shot continuity, connected scenes, prompt audits, feature-length production planning, end-to-end vertical micro-drama series (Micro-Drama Studio), and direct Blender scene building through the connected Kolbo Blender plugin. NOT for: unrelated standalone video editing / FFmpeg (use video-production), motion graphics (use remotion-best-practices), code editing, or general chat.
 argument-hint: "[prompt-or-command] [--model <name>] [--image <path>] [--video <path>]"
 allowed-tools: Bash, Read, Write, Edit
 ---
@@ -280,7 +269,7 @@ Dependencies accumulate: narrative Elements work requires **Kolbo + filmmaking +
 
 ## ⚠️ Seedance / Elements prompt contract (HARD RULE)
 
-`generate_elements`, Seedance 2 / 2.5, WAN, MiniMax H3, Gemini, and any Visual DNA video share **one** compile shape — the Locked Intro in `references/models/seedance.md`. Load `elements-prompting` first (craft, `@Image N` mapping, eight elements), then compile:
+Mode wins over model family. **Frames** (`generate_video_from_image`) and **First/Last Frame** (`generate_first_last_frame`) use ordinary motion/camera/transition prose grounded in the supplied composition, including on Seedance 2.5. Do not add Elements CAST/LOCATION blocks, invent DNA names, or enable cuts because a template says so. An ordinary uploaded frame is `@Image1`, not a DNA; an end frame is `@Image2`. For **Elements / text-driven multi-shot** work, `generate_elements`, Seedance 2 / 2.5, WAN, MiniMax H3, Gemini, and reference-composed video share the Locked Intro in `references/models/seedance.md`. Load `elements-prompting` first (craft, exact `@ImageN` mapping, eight elements), then compile:
 
 `N connected cinematic shots, Xs total, AR, Multishot ON` → `Total: Xs / N shots / AR` → `[GLOBAL LOOK – LOCKED, APPLIES TO EVERY SHOT]` → `[CAST – IDENTICAL IN EVERY SHOT]` (each person is `@DNAName`) → `[LOCATION]` → LOCATION MAP / CONTINUITY / PHYSICS → `SHOT N — 0:00–0:02 — …` (ranges sum to Xs) → closing `Total: Xs / N shots / AR`. Pass MCP `duration: X` matching that Total. Omitting Total / Multishot is a failed compile — same contract as the Kolbo help widget.
 
@@ -341,6 +330,16 @@ A user-named tool — in any language — overrides every other rule. Recognized
 
 Model types for `list_models`: `text_to_img`, `image_editing`, `text_to_video`, `img_to_video`, `draw_to_video`, `video_to_video`, `elements`, `firstlastgenerations`, `lipsync-image`, `lipsync-video`, `music_gen`, `text_to_speech`, `text_to_sound`, `stt`, `text`, `3d_text_to_model`, `3d_image_to_model`, `3d_multi_image_to_model`, `3d_world`.
 
+### Practical iteration and prompt diagnosis
+
+- Start from the final deliverable. For a video, intermediate stills need only serve their intended role. Elements references can establish identity, wardrobe, props, environment or style without fixing every camera angle. Frames are literal compositions to animate. Do not make the user perfect every intermediate still when the final video is what matters.
+- Keep the original prompt, original references, model and settings when available. Repeatedly editing an imperfect derivative can compound drift. When a major viewpoint or composition edit keeps failing, compare a different edit wording with a fresh generation from the original reference. Preserve an explicit request to edit rather than silently switching routes.
+- An image prompt describes one still moment. Remove video timelines from an image request and write the desired still. A video prompt describes visible motion, camera trajectory, timing and sound. For an unbroken take, write timed actions within one shot; do not turn intermediate poses into cuts or dissolves.
+- Use economical trials only within the authorized scope and budget. A couple of samples can distinguish random variation from a repeated failure; a few genuinely different prompt approaches can test different mechanisms. These are options, not required extra spending. When comparing models, keep the prompt, references/order, duration and ratio comparable. Ratio affects composition and behavior; preserve the intended output format.
+- Judge the actual result, not whether an LLM praised the prompt. Separate reference binding/delivery failures from a poor source, an unsuitable method, model behavior and mixed conversation context. When an unchanged method fails repeatedly, change the tested hypothesis rather than keep spending on it. Do not promise that a prompt rewrite guarantees success.
+- Use exact numbered upload tokens in attachment order. A title, filename or invented subject name never becomes a registered DNA. Retain a supplied/selected DNA name verbatim, including Hebrew; never invent a DNA to fill a template's CAST block.
+- Keep unrelated goals in separate sessions. When context becomes mixed, preserve a compact checkpoint with the accepted brief, source references, working prompts/settings and observed failures. Offer a supported fork/new session; do not claim to have moved or forked a session without a successful tool result.
+
 ## ⚠️ Generation lifecycle — source of truth, waiting, failures (HARD RULE — read this)
 
 **How calls work:** each generation tool blocks until the job is fully complete. Images: seconds. Video: minutes. Multiple tool calls in one response run concurrently. On hosts with live widgets the tool instead returns `submitted` (or `_timed_out`) instantly — the card updates on its own.

package/skill/VERSION

@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.9.24
+0.9.25

package/skill/references/models/seedance.md

@@ -7,10 +7,12 @@
 
 Load this file when the user wants a **Seedance 2 / Seedance 2.0** (ByteDance) video. For any other video model, see `models/veo.md`, `models/prompt-copilot.md`, or generic video rules in `SKILL.md`.
 
-**Kolbo MCP routing:** Seedance is a video model — call `generate_video` (text-to-video) or `generate_elements` (when video references / Visual DNA / first-last frames are involved). Run `list_models({ type: "text_to_video" })` and pick a Seedance variant by name.
+**Kolbo MCP routing:** the selected inputs/mode choose the tool, not the Seedance name. Use `generate_video` for text-to-video, `generate_elements` for reference-composed scenes, `generate_video_from_image` to animate an opening still, and `generate_first_last_frame` for supplied opening/landing frames. Discover a matching variant and its constraints with the corresponding model type. First/last frames do not become Elements because they contain a recurring character.
 
 **Elements uses this same file.** `generate_elements` is not a second prompt language. Do not write `SCENE CONTEXT` / `OPTICS` / `ACTION` department packs for Elements or Seedance — those are filmmaking audit contracts, not the generation compile shape.
 
+**Frames format takes precedence:** on image-to-video or first/last-frame, write ordinary motion, camera and transition prose grounded in the supplied composition. Default to one continuous take; timed action beats are allowed. Omit Locked Intro/CAST/LOCATION blocks and multi-shot headers unless the user's selected route actually requires them. Use `@Image1` for the opening still and `@Image2` for a supplied landing still; never invent a DNA name or copy a placeholder identifier. Existing supplied DNA tags retain their exact spelling.
+
 ## Creative direction takes precedence
 
 The current user brief overrides template defaults and illustrative examples. Keep the two-layer organization, but include only relevant locks. State concrete camera trajectory and visible action prominently; optics numbers, equipment names, repetition and word counts are not guarantees of fidelity. Preserve a continuous-shot exception even when other scenes are multishot. For one shot use `Single continuous shot`, `Total: Xs / 1 shot / AR`, one SHOT heading and `multi_shots: false`; for multiple shots use `Multishot ON` and matching counts. AR comes from the brief, never a copied example. Seedance does not speak Hebrew — use Latin transliteration in quotes or route native Hebrew to Gemini Omni. Narration reserved for post does not belong in the generation prompt.
@@ -128,7 +130,7 @@ FORBIDDEN: omitting Total / Multishot; "same character throughout" as the only l
 
 ### 6. Reference-Anchored Cinematic Sequence (multi-character / named references — highest-fidelity format)
 
-Use whenever the user gives named characters, Visual DNAs, or multiple reference images (`@Image1`, `@Image2`, …). **This is always an Elements-mode prompt** (`generate_elements`). Structure:
+Use for **reference-composed Elements scenes** with named characters, Visual DNAs, or multiple reference assets (`@Image1`, `@Image2`, …). This is an Elements-mode prompt (`generate_elements`), not a replacement for explicitly selected Frames/first-last mode. Structure:
 
 1. **Locked Intro FIRST** (GLOBAL LOOK / CAST / LOCATION). CAST is one line per person: `@Exact_DNA_name` or `Name @ImageN — wardrobe, position, what they carry`. End CAST with "All must match their character references exactly." Never "the man on the LEFT" without an `@tag`.
 2. **REFERENCE CONSISTENCY block** — map every reference and pin what must NOT change: `@Zohar` / `Reference Image 1 is <X>. Preserve exact face, hair, anatomy, wardrobe, colors, props.`

package/skill/references/models/seedance25.md

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 Load this file when the user wants a **Seedance 2.5** video (they said "2.5" / "25", or they need longer than 15s, more than ~10 shots, or a large cast of references). Also load `models/seedance.md` for the shared craft layer.
 
-**Kolbo MCP routing:** `generate_video` or `generate_elements` (refs / Visual DNA / first-last). Run `list_models({ type: "text_to_video" })` and pick the Seedance 2.5 variant by name.
+**Kolbo MCP routing:** preserve the selected mode. `generate_video` is text-to-video; `generate_elements` composes reference assets; `generate_video_from_image` animates an opening still; `generate_first_last_frame` connects supplied opening/landing frames. Discover the compatible Seedance 2.5 variant using that tool's model type. Frames use ordinary motion/transition prose, not the Elements Locked Intro. An uploaded frame is `@Image1` (landing frame `@Image2`), never an invented DNA name.
 
 **Audio:** Seedance 2.5 emits real synced audio. `list_models` shows `sound_generation_type: none` only because there is no in-app toggle (`sound_baked_in: true`) — it does NOT mean the model is silent, and it is never a reason to reach for TTS. Quoted dialogue is PERFORMED (synced voices, lip movement, room tone) alongside the SFX named in AUDIO, so scene dialogue never goes through `generate_speech` or `generate_lipsync`; write the lines in quotes inside their shot beats.
 

package/skill/references/workflows/prompt-structure.md

@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ Rules that make it work rather than just look organised:
 
 ## 2. The reference contract — how an edit stops drifting
 
+For iterative work, retain the original source prompt and reference as the baseline. An edit request should preserve only the properties that must survive. If a major camera/viewpoint change repeatedly resists the same edit method, offer a materially different prompt approach or a fresh generation grounded in the original reference; do not keep chaining degraded outputs. Preserve an explicitly selected edit route unless the user accepts changing it. Diagnose with comparable, budgeted samples, not unbounded retries. Image prompts describe one still moment; video timing/action belongs in the video prompt.
+
 This is the highest-value pattern in the file. "Keep everything else the same" is too
 vague to hold, and it is why a chain of edits quietly turns a person into someone else.
 An edit prompt opens with an explicit contract:

package/src/tools/generate.js

@@ -1617,9 +1617,9 @@ function registerGenerateTools(server, client, options = {}) {
   // ─── generate_elements ─────────────────────────────────────
   server.tool(
     'generate_elements',
-    'Generate a video from reference elements (images, videos, and/or audio) + a text prompt. SPECIAL MODEL EXCEPTION: seedance-2-5-multilingual accepts an ordinary prompt in any language with the ORIGINAL target-language dialogue in double quotes, including Hebrew script. Use this tool even without references for that model, duration 8 or 12, resolution 480p/720p/1080p (no Draft), up to 3 still references or Visual DNAs, no video/audio references. It performs translation, distinct designed voices and segmented lip sync internally; never transliterate or pre-translate its quoted dialogue. The following regular Seedance instructions apply only to other model IDs. Use when the user wants to animate specific uploaded/referenced assets — e.g. "animate this product", "put these 3 characters into a scene". PRIMARY ROUTE FOR A DNA-ANCHORED MULTI-SHOT FILM: one call can carry the whole sequence — seedance-2-5 takes 4-30s, up to 30 shots and 20 Visual DNAs in a SINGLE generation (seedance-2: 4-15s, 9 DNAs) — instead of a stack of separate clips. DIALOGUE IS PERFORMED NATIVELY: quoted dialogue in the prompt comes back as synced voices with lip movement, room tone and the SFX named in the AUDIO block — never route scene dialogue to generate_speech or generate_lipsync. Write dialogue in ENGLISH or Latin transliteration of Hebrew ("shalom"), never Hebrew script — Seedance does not speak Hebrew; prefer Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 or Gemini Omni 1 for native Hebrew. COST: resolution is a multiplier. When list_models publishes `video_input_credit` and this call carries videos, charge that rate against nominal input seconds + nominal output seconds; MP4 padding within 0.15s of an integer snaps to that integer and larger fractions round up. Otherwise use the normal output-second rate. PROMPT CONTRACT (Seedance / Elements): Locked Intro only — Total line, then [GLOBAL LOOK] / [CAST] / [LOCATION] / SHOT N. Do NOT write SCENE CONTEXT / OPTICS / ACTION department packs. Every Visual DNA in visual_dna_ids MUST also appear in the prompt as @ExactDNAName (e.g. "@Zohar walks…") — never "Zohar\'s" or "the man on the left" as a substitute. IMPORTANT: different models accept different numbers and durations of inputs — call list_models type="elements" and read elements_max_images / elements_max_videos / elements_max_audio plus min_video_duration / max_video_duration before generating. For text-only → video use generate_video instead. For animating a single still image use generate_video_from_image. Returns the final video URL when complete.' + MORPHIOUS_GUIDE,
+    'Generate a video from reference elements (images, videos, and/or audio) + a text prompt. Use when the user wants to animate specific uploaded/referenced assets — e.g. "animate this product", "put these 3 characters into a scene". PRIMARY ROUTE FOR A DNA-ANCHORED MULTI-SHOT FILM: one call can carry the whole sequence — seedance-2-5 takes 4-30s, up to 30 shots and 20 Visual DNAs in a SINGLE generation (seedance-2: 4-15s, 9 DNAs) — instead of a stack of separate clips. DIALOGUE IS PERFORMED NATIVELY: quoted dialogue in the prompt comes back as synced voices with lip movement, room tone and the SFX named in the AUDIO block — never route scene dialogue to generate_speech or generate_lipsync. Write dialogue in ENGLISH or Latin transliteration of Hebrew ("shalom"), never Hebrew script — Seedance does not speak Hebrew; prefer Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 or Gemini Omni 1 for native Hebrew. COST: resolution is a multiplier. When list_models publishes `video_input_credit` and this call carries videos, charge that rate against nominal input seconds + nominal output seconds; MP4 padding within 0.15s of an integer snaps to that integer and larger fractions round up. Otherwise use the normal output-second rate. PROMPT CONTRACT (Seedance / Elements): Locked Intro only — Total line, then [GLOBAL LOOK] / [CAST] / [LOCATION] / SHOT N. Do NOT write SCENE CONTEXT / OPTICS / ACTION department packs. Every Visual DNA in visual_dna_ids MUST also appear in the prompt as @ExactDNAName (e.g. "@Zohar walks…") — never "Zohar\'s" or "the man on the left" as a substitute. IMPORTANT: different models accept different numbers and durations of inputs — call list_models type="elements" and read elements_max_images / elements_max_videos / elements_max_audio plus min_video_duration / max_video_duration before generating. For text-only → video use generate_video instead. For animating a single still image use generate_video_from_image. Returns the final video URL when complete.' + MORPHIOUS_GUIDE,
     {
-      prompt: z.string().optional().describe('Optional ONLY for kolbo-morphious-* and higgsfield-genjutsu-* models (the server analyzes the media). For seedance-2-5-multilingual: ordinary scene description with original target-language dialogue in double quotes; no manual translation or transliteration. For other models, Locked Intro prompt (Seedance/Elements): Total line, [GLOBAL LOOK], [CAST] with @ExactDNAName for every visual_dna_ids entry, [LOCATION], then SHOT N. Not SCENE CONTEXT/OPTICS/ACTION packs. Never substitute "the left man" or "Zohar\'s" for @Name. EVERY attached reference must also be tagged by its 1-based array position — `@Image 1`/`@Image 2` (reference_images), `@Video 1` (reference_videos), `@Audio 1` (reference_audio_urls) — and its job stated ("@Image 1 defines the character\'s face and wardrobe", "@Video 1 defines the camera move"). An untagged attachment is ignored by the engine even though it was uploaded and billed.'),
+      prompt: z.string().optional().describe('Optional ONLY for kolbo-morphious-* and higgsfield-genjutsu-* models (the server analyzes the media). For other models, Locked Intro prompt (Seedance/Elements): Total line, [GLOBAL LOOK], [CAST] with @ExactDNAName for every visual_dna_ids entry, [LOCATION], then SHOT N. Not SCENE CONTEXT/OPTICS/ACTION packs. Never substitute "the left man" or "Zohar\'s" for @Name. EVERY attached reference must also be tagged by its 1-based array position — `@Image 1`/`@Image 2` (reference_images), `@Video 1` (reference_videos), `@Audio 1` (reference_audio_urls) — and its job stated ("@Image 1 defines the character\'s face and wardrobe", "@Video 1 defines the camera move"). An untagged attachment is ignored by the engine even though it was uploaded and billed.'),
       model: z.string().optional().describe('Model identifier. If the user already named a family (Grok / Kling / Veo / Seedance / …), pass THAT family — never default to Seedance because Elements often uses it. Use list_models type="elements" for exact ids and elements_max_* caps. Do NOT omit (omitting = Smart Select).'),
       reference_images: z.array(z.string()).optional().describe('Array of image references (product shots, character references, etc.). Tag each one in the prompt text by its 1-based position here — item 1 is `@Image 1`, item 2 is `@Image 2` — or the engine ignores it. Accepts a public URL (forwarded as-is; if the API rejects an external URL as untrusted, it is auto-rehosted into the media library and retried once) OR an absolute local path, which is uploaded for you. **Cap: pass at most `elements_max_images` URLs from list_models for the chosen model — exceeding it is a deterministic 400.**'),
       reference_videos: z.array(z.string()).optional().describe('Array of reference videos for models that accept video inputs. Tag each one in the prompt text by its 1-based position here — `@Video 1`, `@Video 2` — stating what it defines (motion, camera move, pacing), or the engine ignores it. Accepts a public URL (forwarded as-is; if the API rejects an external URL as untrusted, it is auto-rehosted into the media library and retried once) OR an absolute local path, which is uploaded for you. **Cap: pass at most `elements_max_videos` URLs and keep every clip within `min_video_duration`-`max_video_duration` from list_models.** If `video_input_credit` is present, every attached video contributes its nominal duration to combined-second billing: encoder padding within 0.15s of an integer snaps to it; larger fractions round up.'),