Invideo today introduced Playbooks in Agent Two: standing rules a filmmaker writes once and an agent follows every time, along with three intelligence tiers, Ultra, Pro, and Lite, so the depth of thinking matches the weight of the task.
Playbooks solve a problem that live direction cannot: the rules that never change. Every working creative has them. The order they build a shot in. The model they trust for faces. The steps they refuse to skip. On a real set, those rules do not get re-announced every morning; the crew knows how this director works. Until now, filmmakers repeated them to the agent in every session, because direction only lasted as long as the conversation. A Playbook makes the rule permanent. Write it once, attach it to an agent, and it holds, session after session, without being said again.
The distinction matters: direction is what you say in the moment; a Playbook is how you always work. One is a note to the crew; the other is the standing order of the set.
What goes into a Playbook is entirely the filmmaker's method:
Approval gates. A casting agent can be bound to a sequence: headshots first, and only on approval a full-body image, and only on approval the character sheet, with the model for each step specified in the rule. Casting then runs the same disciplined way every time, without the steps being re-explained.
Prompting conventions. An agent can be instructed to always prompt a particular video model in a specific language, or to build every shot the same way: define the scene, set the lens, then define the shot. The structure holds across the whole project.
Working modes. One rule filmmakers are already writing: the agent must ask whether you are exploring or executing. In exploratory mode it can never return a single option; a location request comes back in three styles. In execution mode it returns exactly the one thing asked for. The same agent, two registers, switched by a word.
Alongside Playbooks, Agent Two now runs at three levels of intelligence. Ultra is for the genuinely heavy work: breaking down a long script, the tasks that demand sustained reasoning. Pro is the professional day-to-day: seriously capable, lighter on the pocket, where most working hours are spent. Lite is for exploration, quick tests, and the easy tasks that do not need the full engine. The filmmaker picks the tier the way a production picks its resources: the big gun for the big problem, not for every problem.
"Specific creators have specific rules they work with, and a Playbook lets the agent hold yours," said Vishal B, Resident Filmmaker, invideo. "My casting agent gives me headshots first, full body only when I approve, character sheet only after that, on the models I chose for each step. I set that once. Now every character I cast moves through my process, and I never explain it again."
Playbooks build on the identity foundation of Agent Intelligence and the crew structure of Expert Agents: an agent already knows who it is and what its job is. A Playbook now defines how it does that job, permanently, in the filmmaker's own method.
Playbooks and intelligence tiers are live now for all Agent Two users at invideo.io
Part of 12 Days of invideo Agent Two
About Invideo
Invideo is the AI video platform for serious creatives. Its agentic platform takes projects from script to finished film, holding characters, worlds, and creative rules across an entire production. Invideo Agent One ranks first on Physion-Arc 1.0, an independent human evaluation of seven text-to-video agents across 100 cinematic prompts, scored on 16 metrics. Invideo Agent Two, the company's frontier intelligence for creative work, powers filmmakers, studios, marketing teams, and enterprises worldwide.