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Chapter 1 — Foundations

If this is your first day, this is the chapter to read. It introduces every term, agent, and tool you'll see across the rest of the wiki. The goal: when an agent says "the Visual Planner returned the storyboard" or "run the Generation Runner on the .nbflow", you know what they mean.

Chapter at a glance

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    A[How AI Generation Works] --> B[Pipeline<br/>Overview]
    B --> C[The Agents]
    C --> D[Tools You'll Use]
    D --> E[File<br/>Structure]
    E --> F[Ground Rules]
    F --> G[Glossary]

The seven sections build vocabulary you'll lean on for the rest of the wiki.

What you'll learn

  • What AI image and video generation actually is
  • What a prompt, an avatar, a reference image, and a workflow are
  • The 6 pipeline stages from brief to finished video
  • Who the agents are (the Manager, Script Writer, Visual Planner, Image Prompter, Veo Prompter, Generation Runner)
  • The tools you'll be using (PatchWork, Generation Runner, G-Labs) at an introductory level
  • The pipeline's file structure — where everything lives, what you edit, what's auto-generated
  • Operational ground rules (cost awareness, security, pipeline limits)

Sections

  1. How AI Generation Works — what AI gen is, prompts, avatars, workflows, candidates
  2. Pipeline Overview — the 6 stages
  3. The Agents — every agent, what they specialize in
  4. Tools You'll Use — PatchWork, Generation Runner, G-Labs at intro level
  5. File Structure — folders, what's user-edited vs. auto-generated, finding things
  6. Ground Rules — security, cost, limits
  7. Glossary — every term defined

Try this

Read the chapter end-to-end, then test yourself: can you explain what these are, without checking, in your own words?

  1. A prompt, an avatar, a reference image, and a candidate (from How AI Generation Works)
  2. The 6 pipeline stages in order (from Pipeline Overview)
  3. What the Manager, Script Writer, Visual Planner, Image Prompter, Veo Prompter, and Generation Runner each do (from The Agents)
  4. What PatchWork, G-Labs, and cloudflared are (from Tools You'll Use)

If a term doesn't land:

  • Term feels familiar but you can't define it → look it up in the Glossary
  • You're not sure which agent does what → re-read The Agents
  • You don't know what the 6 stages actually produce → re-read Pipeline Overview

Don't move on until those four bullets feel natural. The rest of the wiki assumes them.

When you're ready

→ Next: Chapter 2 — Generate a Workflow. Your first hands-on chapter — take an existing workflow file and produce finished videos from it.