---
title: "add_storyboard_text: Add text to a film"
description: "Put a text element on a film's canvas — a title or body text — optionally near a scene."
canonical_url: "https://meetkuro.com/agents/tools/add_storyboard_text/"
updated: 2026-11-03
locale: "en"
tool: "add_storyboard_text"
scopes: ["storyboards.write"]
---

# add_storyboard_text

**Add text to a film**

Put a text element on a film's canvas — a title or body text — optionally near a scene. The brief prints it with the [id] update_storyboard_annotation and remove_storyboard_annotation take. One undo step; undo_storyboard takes it back. Spends no credits.

## Scope

- `storyboards.write` — Authors, edits, renders and deletes storyboards. Reading a board rides media.read, and the two board tools that spend need generation.write as well.

## Behaviour

- **Writes**: Creates or changes items in the caller's own account.
- **Adds or updates**: Adds or updates; nothing the caller already has is deleted or overwritten.
- **Stays in the account**: Stays inside the caller's private Kuro account: any media provider it calls acts on Kuro's account, and the result is visible to no one else.

## Credits

What the tool's description says about credits, verbatim:

- Spends no credits.

## Inputs

| Name | Type | Required | Details |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `storyboard_id` | string | yes | uuid |
| `text` | string | yes | at least 1 character; at most 500 characters |
| `size` | string | no | one of "title", "body" |
| `near_scene` | integer | no | > 0 |

## Example call

A `tools/call` request with the required arguments only, each a placeholder read off the schema. Replace them before sending.

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "add_storyboard_text",
    "arguments": {
      "storyboard_id": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000000",
      "text": "<text>"
    }
  }
}
```

## Input schema

As the server sends it in `tools/list`:

```json
{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "storyboard_id": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "uuid"
    },
    "text": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 1,
      "maxLength": 500
    },
    "size": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "title",
        "body"
      ]
    },
    "near_scene": {
      "type": "integer",
      "exclusiveMinimum": 0
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "storyboard_id",
    "text"
  ],
  "additionalProperties": false
}
```

## Related tools

- [`update_storyboard_annotation`](https://meetkuro.com/agents/tools/update_storyboard_annotation.md): Change one note or text element on a film's canvas, by the [id] the brief prints (note_… or text_…): its words, a note's color, or a text's size.
- [`remove_storyboard_annotation`](https://meetkuro.com/agents/tools/remove_storyboard_annotation.md): Take one note or text element off a film's canvas, by the [id] the brief prints (note_… or text_…).
- [`undo_storyboard`](https://meetkuro.com/agents/tools/undo_storyboard.md): Take back YOUR last gesture on a film, or redo the one you took back.

---

## About Kuro

Kuro is an AI picture studio: prompt-driven images, clips, voice-overs and music, and storyboard-backed films with consistent characters across every scene.

Agents connect over MCP and can generate directly:

```
claude mcp add kuro https://api.meetkuro.com/mcp --transport http
```

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