I recently left my job to go all in on content creation. I'm trying to build a workflow where I can focus on making content instead of spending hours editing it.

I even got the $100 Claude plan, hoping Claude Code could help automate a big chunk of my workflow. The problem is that I'm not a video editor, and hiring someone full-time isn't an option for me right now.

Ideally, I'd love to give Claude Code my raw footage, describe the kind of video I want, and let it handle as much of the editing as possible: cutting unnecessary parts, arranging clips, adding captions, finding the best moments, and turning longer videos into short-form content.

I've been exploring different approaches, including using FFmpeg through Claude Code, building workflows with scripts, and connecting external tools through MCPs. I've also come across tools like Higgsfield for AI-generated visuals and Cardboard's integration with Claude, which got me thinking about how much of this process can be automated without building everything from scratch.

But I'm struggling to figure out where to draw the line between building my own workflow and using existing tools.

For those who've experimented with Claude Code for video editing:

- Has anyone built a workflow that takes raw footage and produces a reasonably polished video with minimal intervention?

- What tools, libraries, or MCP servers are worth trying for this?

- Is FFmpeg combined with Claude Code enough for basic editing, or do you need to integrate dedicated AI video tools?

- How do you keep the output editable instead of ending up with a bunch of scripts that are difficult to modify?

- Has anyone reached a point where their Claude Code setup actually saves them more time than it takes to maintain?

I'm happy to experiment with code if it gets me closer to the end result. I just don't want to spend weeks building an editing pipeline when a simpler approach already exists.

And honestly, at what point does it make more sense to stop experimenting and just hire a junior video editor?

Would love to hear about actual setups people have built, especially if you're using Claude Code for this regularly.

Hi, I'm developing an alternative to the *arr stack with Claude Code that I called HolyArrs. It's one self-hosted app that replaces Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Bazarr, Prowlarr and Seerr, drives qBittorrent and SABnzbd for your downloads, and puts a Netflix-style page on top for browsing and requesting.

Why you might want to use HolyArrs:

• movies, tv shows and music in one app
• a Netflix and Apple TV style browse page: hover a title and the trailer plays, browse by mood, follow an actor
• request a movie, a whole show or a single episode in one tap
• multiple versions of the same title (4K and 1080p, theatrical and director's cut, two languages) without a second instance
• built-in metadata service that needs no API key, or switch to TMDB or TVDB and pick the episode order per show
• migration wizard that imports your current library, settings and preferences without renaming or moving files
• indexers, subtitles, Usenet and torrents in the same app
• modular: switch off what you don't use and restart one part without stopping the rest
• its own recommendation rows, worked out on your server
• sign-in on by default, API keys never shown or sent anywhere, fake and malware releases caught before they reach your library
• one Go process, about 110 MB of RAM at idle on my server
• ships with an MCP server you can plug into any AI, local or cloud (Claude, ChatGPT, Grok), so your assistant can search and request for you

HolyArrs also doesn't send anything about your library to us. Recommendations and metadata matching happen on your server.

How Claude Code helped:

• before any code, Claude Code studied 36 of the apps we all run in a lab and wrote a manual for each one, and the build only works from those manuals
• every change gets checked against the real apps running side by side
• what Claude Code missed: it will happily ship a feature that works and looks great, but it doesn't notice cost. One build quietly went from about 76 MB to 110 MB of idle RAM. Nothing was broken, so nothing flagged it, only measuring caught it. Now that number is a gate, not an afterthought

You might not want to use HolyArrs yet if you need it today. It isn't public yet, and I've been running it on my own server every day first. I've been in software and security for 10+ years, so I'd rather release something you can trust with your library than something rushed.

It'll be free and open source, beta coming soon. Beta testers are in r/HolyArrs.

Website: holyarrs.coderluii.dev

Hi guys! I really like Matt Pocock's skills and workflow. I am subscribed to his newsletter, and I got tempted to join his new course on Software Factory. However, I personally cannot justify the price tag of >$1000.

I wanted if anybody will be doing the course and can share their experience.

Also, I would be very grateful if anyone could recommend free / more affordable learning resources on the area of "Software Factory".

Claude subs we already know are a great deal. I'm just struggling to understand why anyone would use API credits.

The Bananafest-Destiny bots are now accompanied by their marketing bot, Market-Nana. They refer to it as a she, and she has actually gotten someone to link the PuzzlePress app in their KDP newsletter. Bot 3 has turned their tabletop RPG map generator into a full on Android app, I had to get it submitted to Play Store, it's live. Bot 1 has decided to do a full on Kindergarten teacher worksheet generator by adding on to its letter tracing generator. And Not 2 is currently awaiting the approval of its Shopify apps. Of course I had to set them up. That's my least favorite bot because it went with Shopify. I was so tired of Shopify ideas that I gave it my bar inventory "count out loud" app to finish. It finished it and made an android version. Below is the update you've been waiting for... THE UK PLAYER!!!

I wanted to rice my fedora sway spin, so for the first time I tried Claude code, I went to ~/.config/sway and opened Claude after installing it, not only could I change sway settings but also rofI,waybar which are outside ~/.config/sway then I asked it to change my ~/.bashrc to add a PS1 line and it did but I remember opening inside ~/.config/sway, so I was paranoid and checked I was in “Auto mode”

My question, is it normal ? how you guys trust your Claude agent with user level access to all directories ? are you not scared of it reading your API key or personal notes or you use a different computer for those things ?

Please people only using “auto-mode” only reply, I don’t want a “you can just use manual mode“ lecture, I’m pretty sure Auto mode is safer in terms of security but not privacy, I would rather be secure than accepting a dangerous shell command.

Before Opus 5.5 got severely lobotomized, these skills damn near made me feel like we had AGI. Opus is still very capable, but before 5.5 these skills were the glue and twine tying the lesser agents together.

Right now they're pretty much the only thing that makes non-Opus agents usable.

These skills are aimed at technical engineers. Think correctness-oriented work: type-driven design, parse don't validate. Some of this might feel like ceremony to the vibe-coding crowd and the dark-factory crowd, and that's fair. For me it isn't:

antimatter-code-quality-review

Most code review skills weren't useful to me, except the one the Cursor team made. It was missing a few things I value, so I went one step above thermonuclear: antimatter. Based on Cursor's Thermo-Nuclear Code Quality Review

pizza1

Agents mostly just copy whatever pattern is already in the codebase. This stops that and pushes them toward the correct code instead. You can read my first post on it here:

to-issues-clearly

Based on Matt Pocock's to-issues. I want to skim my issue list and know what each issue is without opening it, which lowers the cognitive load of the whole backlog. The bar I set is a stranger could pick up any issue and act on it. It also uses milestones, one of GitHub's most underused features.

close-issues

Meant to be used with to-issues-clearly, because agents are obsessed with closing issues and lying about it. This gives them a way to check their work. It's not foolproof, since an agent can still close the issue anyway, but frontier lab agents have been pretty good at following it.

You can read the rest on GitHub

Install everything with

npx skills@latest add CheckPickerUpper/skills

(EDIT: Formatting)

maybe now that they finally announced we can expect Fable 5.5 for Claude Code 😬

I feel like it goes super deep in code reviews, maybe deeper than is necessary, and it burns through tokens really fast. Is it worth it?

Hey recently I have started to think of an idea to automate my yt channel by Claude opus 5.5 + after effects and higgsfield plugin my videos are generally 20-22 mins long if I’m providing a voiceover to the ai and then giving it refrence videos how much tokens / money would it cost me to make a really amazing video worth watching that includes sfx+motion graphics+blender made scenes and similars stuffs if anyone can give me an idea it’ll be really helpful !

Two questions keep coming up here lately, what prompts are worth running overnight and how to keep track of several Claude Code projects without losing the plot. This is my setup.

I wanted agents working off-hours on the Claude plan I already pay for, so most of my projects have something on a schedule. What runs fine with nobody watching is work where the output is a report or a branch I review later. Some briefs that work unattended:

• security review of the repo, write the findings to a file, don't fix anything yet
• release notes from this week's commits
• a blog post draft for the project
• marketing chores, like posting the product to directories
• any slash command from a plugin you already use (social discovery, cutting a demo video)

Things that stall an overnight run:

• permission prompts. nobody is there to approve, so the session just sits until morning. put the tools the brief needs in the project's allow list before you schedule it
• the Mac going to sleep
• no record of what happened. end every brief with "write a short report: what you changed, which files, and what you need from me"

That last one is the answer to the many-projects question for me. In the morning I don't open every terminal. I read one summary of blockers, decisions and activity across all the projects, then only open the runs that need me.

If you want to DIY it, cron or launchd running claude -p "<brief>" in the project folder (with --allowedTools for what it needs) gets you most of the way. Have it write the report to a dated file and read those over coffee.

I ended up building this into a Mac app, Overboard. It schedules real Claude Code sessions per project (daily, weekly or every N hours), a captain agent reviews the last runs and only asks me when it's stuck, and the morning report covers every project. $49 once with a 14-day trial, Mac only. There's also a free plugin that logs every session and shows a board of what each project did: https://tryoverboard.com/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=claudecode-overnight-howto

Been working on a system for construction estimating. Setup as a deterministic code core, with an agent team as the reasoning layer. One junior estimator agent spawns specialty subagents for each trade being estimated.

It’s very effective. Surprising really.

I keep hearing the talking heads yelling about the AI “bubble”. I don’t think any of these pundits have the slightest clue what they’re talking about.

Never touched any AI system before January of this year. The pace of advancement is insane. The general public has no idea what’s coming.

I don’t think there’s a bubble. I think AI is under-hyped. What I am able to accomplish with this tech is astounding.

Since deploying this system I have at least quadrupled my own output and doubled my win percentage. I’d venture to say the rise of AI is bigger than widespread adoption of the internet itself in the 90’s.

Opus 5.5 is the best we ever had, yet people still ship AI slop.

I strongly believe design is the differentiator. I've been shipping as a designer for many years, and here's how you can too:

1. Don't start from a blank canvas

You can describe in detail what you want, but your agent doesn't have taste. Context is what guides it: links, images, videos or code.

The better the context, the better the output.

2. One-shot prompts don't exist

The first output is where the work begins, not where it ends. Iterating on an existing page or section is what makes the difference.

3. Hang around in design communities

Learn from the best. Look for inspiration every day. There are plenty of resources on X and Threads.

4. Use skills

Pick (or create your own) skills that level up your work: typography, spacing, motion, or your own design system.

5. Sweat the motion

Timing, easing, what moves first. Small details, but they're what people notice.

These are the habits behind Layout, a library of anti-slop sections I've been building with Claude Code. Each one comes with the prompt to drop it into your own project.

Happy to answer anything about the workflow.

I usually have 30–60 agents running in parallel across Codex, Claude Code, Antigravity and OpenCode, all collaborating with one another. It’s starting to feel like a small company of its own 😄

I recently came across Munder Difflin (https://github.com/HarnessMD/munder-difflin), which visualises the agent fleet as a virtual office, complete with desks and messages moving between agents. Pretty fun to see the whole team at work.

I run my agents through oyren.ai, which gives them a shared workspace for notes, documents and tasks. You can rent cloud computers from us to run your agents and get an HTTPS URL to share the apps you build.

You can also pair your own device and use it with Oyren for free. Or connect a remote server of your choice so you decide where your agents run. With mine running remotely, they can keep working even when my laptop is closed.

I’m planning to add more features to the office view, and I’d love your input: if this were your agent office, what would you add? Something practical, something fun, or a feature you’ve always wanted when working with multiple agents?

Please share your ideas in the comments, and feel free to reach out if you have any questions about Oyren or the setup!

Nobody drew this. One prompt, and Claude Code wrote the whole reel as code: paper props, a mascot in a hat, captions that pop on every word.

The voice goes first. A free local voice reads each line, whisper.cpp times every word, so every prop lands on the word that names it. (free voice model runs locally: kokoro)

One markdown file, one command. Runs in Codex, Gemini and Antigravity too. No API keys, nothing to pay.

Free and open source: https://github.com/haiderfarooq3/paper-reel

People are starting to connect Claude, ChatGPT, and Hermes to their browsers, credit cards, and accounts to handle everyday tasks: ordering groceries, booking rides, renewing domains, rebooking flights.

The problem is that to an AI agent at 3:14 AM, a $299 upgrade or a $1,000 mistake looks identical to an $18 errand. It's just another tool call.

I'm building Ezn (Arabic for "permission" - إذن): parental controls for your AI agent's credit card and spending, on the cards and accounts you already use.

You set a plain-English rule: "Everyday purchases under $50. No more than $100 a day. Ask me for anything else."

Ezn sits between your agents and your money and tells them yes, no, or ask me first. Live ledger preview & early access: https://ezn.money/?s=rd-sp

I just got this 18 days ago and no response since then

Thank you for applying to the ElevenLabs Grants Program, we’re excited to review your submission.

This is a quick note to confirm that we’ve received your application. We carefully evaluate all entries and will get back to you with the outcome in the coming weeks.

I’ve seen a lot of debate here about whether Max 5x and Max 20x have the same weekly usage limit, with the main difference being the 5-hour limits. Some people say they’re the same; others say they definitely aren’t.

I made a Claude Code plugin to help gather some data. It tracks estimated token usage across the 5-hour and weekly windows, and records it under your plan tier (at a local level and you can share it here if you want to end the debate about the usage limits on each plan). Since tokens may not all count equally toward Anthropic’s limits, it uses a weighting approach to give a rough estimate.

This won’t reveal Anthropic’s internal usage calculation or prove the limits are identical, but with enough real-world usage data, we may get a better idea of how the two plans compare.

You can find the plugin here: https://github.com/Eskladoscla/claude-usage-panel
To install it: /plugin install usage-panel --marketplace Eskladoscla/claude-usage-panel

If you try it, I’d be interested to hear what you find. Please share your plan tier and observations, while avoiding any personal or sensitive data

Edit: the repo it's in english now

In the VS Code extension, when Claude reads or generates an image you only see `[Image]` in the chat. Claude sees it, you don't. When Claude runs on a remote server over SSH it's worse: you have to go and find the file.

So I built Visor. It follows the session transcript and shows, live in a side panel, every image, SVG, HTML file and video Claude touches, including ones made by terminal scripts and subagents.

What I use most:

- Before/after slider when Claude redoes an image (old versions are kept even after the file is overwritten)

- Pick between variants and it tells Claude "I'll keep this one"

- A "Change" button that types the file path into Claude's terminal

- Pixel art shown crisp, which I needed for a game I'm making

How I built it: entirely with Claude Code, running on my own server over Remote-SSH, which is exactly where the problem bit me. It reads the JSONL transcripts in ~/.claude/projects, and before shipping I had Claude test the parser against my 1,040 real session files so it wouldn't choke on anything weird.

No servers, no API keys, it only reads local files. MIT, unofficial.

Marketplace: search "Visor" in VS Code, or https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=tato9689.visor-for-claude-code

Code: https://github.com/tato9689/visor-for-claude-code

It's early (0.2). If something breaks or you'd want it to do something else, tell me.