Episodic detective pilot — agent playbook

This is the hardest cast-lock test in the catalogue: three named characters, a flashback arc inside 12 scenes, and a held cliffhanger that earns "to be continued". The example is [MAYA · EP1 · The Lost Tea Master](/chapters/maya-ep1-lost-tea-master-example.html) — a young Chinese-Canadian PI tracks a missing tea master through rain-soaked Vancouver Chinatown.

Output

12 × krea-2-large keyframes
12 × kling-v3-i2v shots
3 × 5-axis cast specs
Scene-by-scene cast tracking
Flashback arc within 12 scenes
Noir narrator VO + piano-bass score
Cliffhanger held-two-faces frame
Cinema 1920×1080 reel

Reliability

4.0

Customize this playbook

Fill in the fields below. Your answers are inserted into the complete recipe when you copy it.

e.g. "MAYA" — the show name.

e.g. "EP1 · The Lost Tea Master" — used on poster + card.

1-sentence pitch. Drives the agent's beat planner.

1-2 sentence world description.

e.g. "Maya Chen"

e.g. "28-year-old Chinese-Canadian private investigator"

1 short sentence — re-pasted whenever protag appears.

1-2 sentences with EXPLICIT phenotype — the new 6th axis (2026-06-03).

secondary facial details (expression baseline, freckles, scars, etc.)

the costume for the WHOLE episode

default emotional state

always "SAME COSTUME across the whole episode"

e.g. "Mrs. Tan"

e.g. "70-year-old teahouse proprietress"

1 short sentence

1-2 sentences with EXPLICIT phenotype (same format as protag)

secondary distinguishing features

1-line outfit

default emotional state

array of shot indices, e.g. [4]

e.g. "The Green-Coat Woman" (often unnamed)

1-line role

1 short sentence

1-2 sentences with EXPLICIT phenotype (same format as protag)

often kept partially in shadow until a reveal scene

the costume that defines them (a colour, a prop)

array of shot indices, e.g. [5, 10, 11, 12]

e.g. "painterly noir", "neo-noir watercolour", "1940s charcoal"

4-5 colour names

where the light comes from + atmosphere

the canonical flashback position. Default: 5 (in a 12-scene arc).

how flashback differs from present. e.g. "warmer afternoon light, washed-out, dreamier"

always the last shot. e.g. 12.

array of character names present in the cliffhanger frame.

gemini-tts voice. Recommended: "Gacrux" (warm noir female).

4-5 paragraphs of over-the-shoulder noir narration.

e.g. "rain-soaked noir piano with quiet upright bass, slow contemplative, instrumental"

12 (canonical for a 120s pilot). 8 minimum, 18 max.

kebab-case for filenames. e.g. maya-ep1-lost-tea-master.

RUNNER

Create and edit images and video with your agent.

npm install -g @livepeer/runner