Skills

Skills are Markdown capabilities the agent picks up automatically based on the task. fal ships a set, and you can add your own.

A skill is a Markdown file that tells the agent how to do a kind of work well. It encodes the guidelines a good result needs: which models to prefer, how to structure prompts, what to check before delivering. Skills stack. A look, a format, and a delivery spec can all apply to one run.

Open Skills in the sidebar to browse them. Tabs show All, Yours, and By fal.

Built-in skills

fal’s creative engineers maintain these skills. They are on by default and appear under By fal.

Skill	Use it for
fal-video-generation	The general router for video work. Make a clip from a description, animate a still, interpolate between two frames, restyle footage, extend or upscale a clip, reframe it, or add sound
fal-video-production	A finished short video ad from a brief. Script, shot list, one clip per shot, a pinned voice, a ducked music bed, and burned-in text, with a clip review before audio is paid for
fal-script-writer	A timed script and shot table before generation. Story beats or ad structure, duration and voiceover limits per shot, and continuity notes
fal-shot-craft	Wording the visual prompt of one video clip. Framing, camera, one settled state per clip, and specific gesture over named emotion
fal-motion-graphics	Animated on-screen graphics for a finished video. Titles, lower thirds, badges, end cards, and logo cards with entrance and exit motion
video-compositing	Captions, titles, animated logos, kinetic type, montages, and slideshows, rendered in the sandbox
fal-audio-generation	The router for audio. Voiceover and text to speech, voice replacement, dubbing, sound effects, music, and transcription
h3-cinematic-prompter	Finished prompts for the MiniMax Hailuo H3 video model. Produces prompt text only
cinematography	Shot language, camera movement, lighting, lens choice, color grade, film texture, and scene blocking
character-design	Original characters, reference sheets, expression sheets, outfit variations, identity-preserving edits, and character-to-video
character-sheet	One character design sheet, turnaround, or model sheet as a single image
ugc	Creator-style ads and social-proof videos. Talking-head scripts, product demos, testimonials, unboxing, and short vertical formats
photo-editing	Pixel-exact edits in the sandbox. Background removal, exposure, crop, straighten, format conversion, and compositing. Semantic edits go to a generative model
fal-gamedev	2D pixel-art characters, sprite sheets, walk cycles, background removal, and parallax or isometric backgrounds
wrap-it-up	End-of-session handoff. Packages everything from the chat into one ZIP with a written progress document
training	Fine-tune a LoRA on your own images. Available to accounts with training access

How a skill activates

• Automatically. The agent sees the name and description of every enabled skill. When a request matches, it loads the skill’s full body.
• On request. Type @ in the composer, open Skills, and pick one. It is loaded for that turn.

Once a skill is active in a chat, it stays active for the rest of the chat.

Turn skills on and off

• Each skill card has a toggle. A disabled skill is invisible to the agent.
• Settings → Skills → Enable skills is the master switch. When it is off, the agent ignores all skills, including fal’s and yours.

Your own skills

You can write a skill in the editor or install one from a GitHub repository. See Custom skills.

Custom skills

Format, editor, GitHub install, updates, and limits