A shorts studio that runs in the terminal
One sentence in — script, visuals, voiceover, synced captions, sound design and a rendered vertical video out
A repo that turns Claude Code into a faceless-video studio. You describe the short in plain English and it writes the script, builds the visuals, generates the voiceover, syncs captions word-for-word, adds sound design and renders the vertical file. No camera, no face, no editing software — and on the default track, no per-clip generation cost either.
Seven stages, one prompt
A pipeline, not a prompt
Most “AI video” tooling gives you one step — a script, or a voice, or a caption burn-in — and leaves you to carry the file to the next tool. This wires the whole chain into one agent session: you describe the video, and it writes the script and beats, builds the composition, renders frame-by-frame previews to check its own work, generates the voiceover with word-exact synced captions, adds sound design, and outputs the finished vertical .mp4.
The captions are the detail worth noticing. They are generated against the actual voiceover audio rather than the script, which is why they land word-for-word instead of drifting — that drift is the usual tell of an automated short.
What it actually costs to run
The split matters: only one key is needed on every track. The rest are per-track, so the cheapest path needs far less than the full list suggests.
ElevenLabs and Gemini both run limited free tiers, which is enough to see whether the output is worth anything to you, but a channel posting daily is not a free-tier workload. fal.ai has no free tier at all — it bills per generation, so the AI-character track is the one that can surprise you. Price the tracks separately rather than treating this as one subscription.
Clone, key, install, open
Step 5 is the one people get wrong: launching Claude from outside the repo folder means the skills never load, and the whole thing looks broken for no visible reason.
The smallest thing that proves it works
Paste this into Claude Code once it is open inside the repo. It routes to the code track — the cheapest one, since it is pure Remotion with no footage and no per-clip generation cost.
One prompt, three production styles
You do not type the command. You describe the video — “make a vox-style short about coffee” — and Claude matches it to the right skill.
Which one to reach for
The three above are the production tracks, and they are what a walkthrough naturally covers. The repo ships two more that do the unglamorous work: /vidtsx-2d-generator holds the TSX authoring rules the code track writes against, and /suggest-sfx handles sound design. You never invoke them directly — the tracks call them — but they are the reason output stays consistent between runs rather than drifting each time the model improvises a house style.
A prompt that produces a finished short in one pass
Swap the topic and paste. Worth reading as a checklist of what actually decides whether a short performs — the hook window, no dead air, a duration target — rather than as magic wording.
Ten channel niches to test
These are prompts for experiments, not evidence that any of them pays. The cost of finding out is now low enough that testing five niches is a weekend rather than a quarter — which is the actual argument for this whole setup, and a different claim from “faceless channels make money”.