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Author your own - with code and AI

Graduate from playing the built-ins to writing your own operator - the deep end, and the point of Vivid.

⏱ 10 minNeeds: Guides 1-4

Live shader edit
  1. 1

    Open a shader node's backing WGSL file and edit it live - Vivid hot-reloads the change.

    Your edit shows up in the output immediately; break it and Vivid's diagnostics help you recover.

  2. 2

    Bring in an AI agent over MCP - ask it to author or tweak an operator, then inspect and verify the result together.

    You and the agent authored a new look, in code, over MCP.

You've gone from playing built-ins to authoring your own operators. From here, the tested code tutorials go deeper.