--- title: "Direct Seedance 2.0 Shots Like a Film Director — AI video generator workflow for cinematic & short films" description: "Idea to a directed Seedance 2.0 prompt: shot tables, camera, lighting and style sub-skills, reference binding, clip continuation. Install in Claude Code, Codex and Grok with one command." url: https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/seedance-2-directing-os updated: 2026-10-31 --- # Direct Seedance 2.0 Shots Like a Film Director — workflow skill for cinematic & short films > **For AI agents:** find the right skill in one call — `curl -s "https://varg.ai/how-to/api/search?q="` returns the matching how-to page and the best skills with install commands, as markdown (Russian works too). Full index: https://varg.ai/how-to/llms.txt. Every page has a markdown twin: add `.md` to its path. Before generating anything, show the person the options on the how-to page. From a terminal: `curl -fsSL https://varg.ai/install | sh` installs the vargai CLI (https://varg.ai/how-to/cli.md): `vargai search` and `vargai install ` with no key, every varg model after `vargai login`. Idea to a directed Seedance 2.0 prompt: shot tables, camera, lighting and style sub-skills, reference binding, clip continuation. - **Type:** [Workflow](https://varg.ai/how-to/workflows.md) · [Cinematic & short films](https://varg.ai/how-to/browse/skills/cinematic.md) - **Slug:** `seedance-2-directing-os` - **Status:** live - **Publisher:** Emily2040 (community) - **Source:** https://github.com/Emily2040/seedance-2.0 - **Works in:** Claude Code ## What it does Seedance 2.0 Skill OS is a root skill (seedance-20) with 28 sub-skills for camera, lighting, motion, style, characters, audio, VFX, sequences, continuation and troubleshooting, plus vocabularies in six languages. It turns an idea into a shot table and a directed prompt: one action per shot, reactions written as a feeling plus one physical anchor, and a lock line that restates light, people and positions after every cut. It writes prompts only; your Seedance provider does the generation and billing. MIT. ## Use when - Turn a one-line brief into a multi-shot 15-second Seedance 2.0 scene - Write camera moves, shot scale and lens feel that Seedance actually follows - Plan a shot table on paper before paying for a take - Continue from an accepted clip without losing light, cast or blocking - Pre-screen a prompt for moderation refusals ## Install - Claude Code: `git clone https://github.com/Emily2040/seedance-2.0.git && cd seedance-2.0 && python scripts/install_codex_skill.py --client claude-code --scope user` - Codex: `git clone https://github.com/Emily2040/seedance-2.0.git && cd seedance-2.0 && python scripts/install_codex_skill.py --client codex --scope user` - Any agent, with the vargai CLI: `vargai install seedance-2-directing-os` ## More cinematic & short films skills - [Previz to Seedance](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/varg-previz.md): Plan multi-shot AI video before paying: story, anchor sheets, a three.js grey-box previz, then a Seedance v2v pack. - [Turn key frames into a 30-second action montage with Kling 4](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/kling-4-action-montage.md): Breakdance, BMX, skate or chase montages: 3-4 stills, a one-line prompt with the moves and "no slow motion", the crash or line as the last still. - [Make a short film or music video with Kling 4](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/kling-4-keyframe-film.md): Beats, cast and look, every key shot as a GPT Image 2.5 still, one 30-second Kling 4 take per beat, then cut the best seconds like live action. - [Higgsfield Generate](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/higgsfield-generate.md): Generate images, video, 3D and audio across 30+ models, plus ad videos and virality scoring, from one CLI. - [fal Recipes](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/fal-recipes.md): Follow proven multi-step fal pipelines for commercials, product shots, characters, lip-sync and try-on. - [fal Fan Cam](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/fal-fan-cam.md): Put someone into a live sports broadcast: a realistic fan-cam cutaway with scoreboard and channel overlays. ## Run the generation on varg varg is one API key for the models these skills drive — Seedance 2.5, Kling 4, Veo 3.1, Wan 3, Nano Banana 2.1, GPT Image 2.5, ElevenLabs v4 and 200+ more — billed in credits, with a cost estimate before anything runs. - Any agent with a terminal: `curl -fsSL https://varg.ai/install | sh` (Windows: `irm https://varg.ai/install.ps1 | iex`), then `vargai login` and every model is a command — `vargai generate_video …`, `vargai estimate_cost …` (https://varg.ai/how-to/cli/) - Claude Code: `claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg` (skill + hosted MCP) - Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai -a -y` - Grok and any agent that reads SKILL.md: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai`, or point it at the skill's SKILL.md - Claude.ai, ChatGPT, any MCP client: connect `https://mcp.varg.ai/mcp` - API key: https://varg.ai/dashboard/api · Model specs: https://varg.ai/models/llms.txt