Choosing a generation model

fal-ai and google-ai teach how to call a model once you've picked one. This skill teaches how to pick it. Read references/model-capabilities.md whenever quoting model duration, resolution, aspect ratio, audio, language, or reference support. Read references/cost-guidance.md whenever the user compares models, asks about price, or must approve a paid plan. Neither this skill nor either of those pins a model catalog or a "best model for X" table -- both providers' catalogs, capabilities, and pricing change independently and on their own schedule, and a fixed ranking here would go stale exactly the way a fixed model ID would.

Resolve production-level unknowns before the first paid call