How to narrow a request when the result keeps coming back wrong

Last updated 2026-09-22 · 8 min read

What is the short version?

You asked for something faithful to a reference. It came back different. You described the difference, and it came back different in a new way. The instinct is to describe harder; the fix is to ask for less.

1. Tell Vizard Agent to disregard the earlier requests.
2. Ask for one specific change to the current version.
3. Say explicitly that everything else stays as it is.

What do you need before you start?

The version you have and a clear head about what is actually wrong with it. Vizard Agent can act on "remove the figures from the flashback panels" immediately; "make it more faithful" contains no instruction it can check its work against.

• The current version. The one that is closest.
• The one thing that is wrong. Not the list.
• What must not change. Usually everything else.
• The reference. If faithfulness is the point.
• Whether to start again. Sometimes narrowing means reverting.

What do you type into Vizard Agent?

Say "forget the previous requests" in as many words. It sounds blunt on the page and it is the single most useful sentence in a long session with Vizard Agent, because it clears out constraints you no longer want and stops them quietly shaping the next attempt.

Prompt

Variants worth knowing:

• "Forget everything I asked for before." Clears the accumulated brief.
• "Make one change." The scope, as a number.
• "Do not redraw anything." Names the failure mode you keep seeing.

What does Vizard Agent actually do?

Here is the Vizard Agent sequence on a comic-panel composition that took several passes to land. Read it as a story about scope rather than about craft: each attempt is narrower than the one before it, and the narrowest one is the one that finally works.

1. Analyses the reference image before deciding how to rebuild it.
2. Checks each of the five source scenes and maps them onto the reference's layout.
3. Builds the collage with angled cut-outs, comic colour grading and the central silhouette.
4. Adjusts the crop so the angles do not change the panel sizes.
5. Refines positions and outlines to get closer to the original.
6. Re-reads the reference in detail to copy the dividers and each panel's position exactly.
7. Rebuilds from scratch with curved masks aligned to the reference, dropping the extra effects and lines.
8. Reviews the new version side by side with the reference, checking the dividers specifically.
9. Preserves both characters in the couple panel and keeps the flight inside the upper panel.
10. Enlarges only the lower-left panel's mask, because the divider was hiding the art.
11. Adjusts the scale of the couple's panel without altering the overall structure.

Steps seven to eleven are the narrowing. The rebuild at step seven throws away effects nobody asked for; step ten changes exactly one mask; step eleven changes one scale. Each is checkable in a glance, which is why they converge.

Step eight is the habit that makes narrowing possible. Comparing side by side with the reference produces specific differences — "the divider is hiding the art in that panel" — and a specific difference is the raw material for a narrow instruction.

Step three is worth keeping in view as the thing that did not work. A single instruction describing the whole composition produced a plausible image that was not the one wanted, and no amount of additional description was going to close that gap.

What does the result look like?

The version you already had, with exactly one thing changed and nothing else touched. It is also a much shorter path than another full attempt would have been, because Vizard Agent was editing a known file rather than producing a new one.

When does this not work well?

Narrowing assumes the current version is close. If it is fundamentally wrong — the wrong structure, the wrong footage, the wrong idea — then a series of small edits is a slow way to arrive somewhere you should have restarted from.

• The current version is not close. Restart instead.
• Several real faults at once. Fix them one at a time, not together.
• The reference is the problem. No instruction fixes an unclear target.
• Changes that interact. Resizing one panel moves another.
• Generated material. Each regeneration returns something new.

How do you fix a result that came back wrong?

Narrow it again, one step further. If a single requested change produced two actual changes in the file, say which of them you did not ask for, and Vizard Agent restores that part of the image while keeping the change you did want.

• "You also moved the panel." The unrequested change is reverted.
• "That is closer, now one more thing." Change one, check, then continue.
• "Go back to the previous version." Vizard Agent works from that file instead.
• "Start again from the reference." Sometimes narrowing means reverting first.

How does Vizard Agent compare to doing it yourself?

By hand you would open the file and move the one thing. That is exactly what narrowing recreates: it converts an open-ended generation into a defined edit, which is the mode where both a person and a tool are reliable.

Common questions

Does it really forget the earlier brief? Yes, if you say so. Vizard Agent treats it as cleared rather than as background.

What if I want two changes? Ask for them one at a time; Vizard Agent can do both, but you can only check one.

Is this slower? It feels slower, and with Vizard Agent it converges faster.

Can I go back to an earlier version? Yes. Ask Vizard Agent for the version from before a specific change.

Why do recreations drift? Because every regeneration is a new attempt, not an edit of the last one.

When should I restart instead? When the version is wrong in structure — Vizard Agent will say when that is the case.

Can Vizard Agent tell me what differs? Yes. Ask for a side-by-side comparison against the reference.

Does this apply to video too? Yes, and more so — a re-render costs far more than a targeted edit.

What if I cannot name what is wrong? Ask Vizard Agent to list the differences it can see; naming follows from that.

Should I keep the earlier versions? Yes. They are what narrowing works from.

Can I ask for a version with no effects? Yes, and it is often the fastest way to see what the structure is doing.

Does saying "forget everything" lose my references? No. Say which files still apply and Vizard Agent keeps those.

How many rounds is too many? If three narrowed edits have not converged, the base version is wrong.

Can I lock parts of the image? Yes — name what must not change and Vizard Agent treats it as fixed.