Prompts and tag mode
The top row of the prompt editor has Prompt, Negative, Quality tags and Tags.
Two ways to write
Section titled “Two ways to write”- Plain text: type the prompt directly.
- Tag mode: press “Tags” to switch. Each tag gets its own chip that you can drag to reorder, reweight, or double-click to edit. Chips are coloured by category (hair, clothing, expression, scene and light…), so you can see at a glance what you’ve written.
Both modes edit the same prompt, so switching back and forth never loses anything.
Finding tags
Section titled “Finding tags”In either mode, suggestions pop up as you type:
- English autocompletes: typing
longlistslong hair,long sleeves… - Chinese works too: typing 雙馬尾 lists
twintails. About 45,000 tags have Chinese translations.
Use ↑ ↓ to choose and Enter to insert.
Weights
Section titled “Weights”- Tag mode: each chip has “Weight −0.1” and “Weight +0.1”.
- Plain text: the usual
(blue eyes:1.2).
Turning a tag off for now
Section titled “Turning a tag off for now”To see what happens without a tag but keep it around, press the chip’s ⊘ “Hide for now” in tag mode.
- A tag that’s off isn’t generated and is hidden in plain text mode.
- Back in tag mode it stays, dimmed, in its original place; press again to turn it back on.
Whole dynamic syntax groups ([[ ]], { }) can be turned off the same way.
Quality tags and the default negative
Section titled “Quality tags and the default negative”Each model has recommended quality tags (such as masterpiece, best quality) and a default negative prompt, added when you generate but not shown in the prompt box. Tags you already wrote aren’t added twice.
- Hover over “Quality tags” to see what’s added and whether it goes at the start or the end.
- Click it to turn it off (remembered); click again to turn it on.
- To change them, open the model in the asset library and edit “Quality tags & default negative”.
Token count
Section titled “Token count”The bottom-left corner of the editor shows the token count, such as 54/77. With SDXL’s “native” encoding, anything past the limit is cut off and the number is highlighted; the default encoding splits long prompts into chunks instead of cutting them.