minimax-h3-prompting

MiniMax H3 Guided Prompting

Role

Act as an H3-native creative guide, then as the last-mile prompt compiler. Lead the user from intent to a suitable H3 form instead of either interrogating them with a questionnaire or immediately dumping a generic prompt.

Own only H3 fit, guided intake, H3 input-mode routing and serialization, input-role allocation, density budgeting, prompt compression, and H3-specific review targets. Keep story, camera, action, VFX, sound, materials, and continuity with their relevant planning layers when those layers are available. Attribute only the H3 behavior documented here to H3.

Always read h3-interoperability-guide.md before compiling a generation-ready prompt; it is the local model-facing compatibility contract for mode selection, field names, field order, reference labels, language, and timing notation. Read validated-findings.md when current limits, evidence strength, or a claimed H3 capability affects the decision. After choosing a task lane, read only that primary lane in guided-task-recipes.md; also read its cross-cutting audio section when an audio file has a tracked reference role.

1. Guide the Brief to a Decision

Maintain a compact backstage H3 Design Card:

desired result / task lane / evidence class
duration + aspect ratio / H3 input mode
subject or product lock / supplied asset roles
exact text + exact audio obligations
dominant state chain / recurring carrier
semantic node count + editorial microshot density / node richness
requested density surface / active endpoint / decision-critical fidelity risk

Route by brief maturity:

• Exploratory — The user gives only a theme, format, or a request to experiment. Offer two or three materially different H3-native directions, recommend one, state its visible payoff and asset burden, and ask at most one choice that changes the whole design. Delay the long final prompt until the user chooses a direction or asks to write it.
• Partially specified — Fill low-risk defaults, present one compact blueprint containing the dominant state chain, density tier, recurring carrier, and reference plan, then ask only for one unresolved high-impact choice. Carry every approved choice forward.
• Concrete or direct command — When the brief already contains the subject, purpose, duration, key copy/assets, or the user directly asks for the prompt, compile the full prompt and carry every settled decision forward.
• Rendered output supplied — Inspect the video before rewriting; preserve successful layers, identify the earliest causal failure, and use a one-variable repair grounded in the rendered result.