# Make Effects

> Make Effects is the project layer for CLI-first media generation. Use a fast CLI loop to generate images, video, and audio, then keep the relationships, variants, prompts, collaborators, and production handoff organized.

## Product Promise

Direct generator CLIs are great for making media quickly. Make Effects is for the moment a project gets big enough that you need to remember what worked, compare variants, refine prompts, follow lineage, explore broader ideas, and turn the chosen results into production files. Humans and agents can create spaces, generate or upload media, inspect assets, refine variants, derive new media from references, monitor jobs, and export handoff records for downstream tools.

## Documentation

- [Home](https://makefx.app/index.md) - Product overview and agent quick start
- [Quickstart](https://makefx.app/docs/quickstart.md) - Install makefx, sign in, create a space, and turn CLI generation into tracked project work.
- [Core Concepts](https://makefx.app/docs/concepts.md) - Understand the memory layer: spaces, assets, variants, recipes, lineage, runs, and production records.
- [CLI Reference](https://makefx.app/docs/cli.md) - Use the makefx CLI as the fast loop for agents, scripts, images, audio, video, and project state.
- [Production Handoff](https://makefx.app/docs/production-handoff.md) - Choose what worked, place it into a production, and export media for downstream tools.
- [Media Playbooks](https://makefx.app/docs/media-playbooks.md) - Use reference-first workflows for images, video, and audio instead of prompt roulette.
- [Image Playbook](https://makefx.app/docs/image-playbook.md) - Build reusable references, style anchors, scenes, and edits that stay consistent.
- [Video Playbook](https://makefx.app/docs/video-playbook.md) - Make keyframes first, then direct motion, sound, and timeline handoff.
- [Audio Playbook](https://makefx.app/docs/audio-playbook.md) - Pick speech, dialogue, music, or SFX modes and brief each sound deliberately.
- [Model & Parameter Selection](https://makefx.app/docs/model-and-parameter-selection.md) - Choose image, video, and audio modes, defaults, and CLI-exposed parameters.

## Agent Quick Start

```sh
npm install -g makefx
makefx login
makefx spaces create "My Game Assets" --init
makefx generate "A market background" --name "Market" --type scene -o art/market.png
makefx audio sfx generate "Magic pickup" --name "Pickup" -o audio/pickup.wav
makefx video generate "Looping idle animation" --name "Idle" --type animation -o video/idle.mp4
makefx assets --json
```

## Discovery

- Rendered docs: https://makefx.app/docs
- Full LLM context: https://makefx.app/llms-full.txt
- CLI JSON outputs: prefer `--json` where available and `makefx listen --json` for live orchestration.