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Overview

The MiniCut CLI makes a short drama episode in 5 loops that your coding agent runs, and each loop checks its own work.

The MiniCut CLI is the minicut command. Your coding agent runs it to turn your idea into a finished episode. On the way it makes a script, a shot sheet, pictures, video takes, music and an edited cut.

Your coding agent runs 5 loops in order: Script, Shot sheet, Mock, Videos, Edit. Each loop checks its own work and redoes what fails, up to 3 rounds; the Videos loop makes a new take, up to 3 a shot. Between loops, you can change the shot sheet after the mock. The Edit loop renders the episode, a video file.YOUR CODING AGENT↻ fix, ≤3 roundsScriptthe story↻ fix, ≤3 roundsShot sheetevery shot↻ fix, ≤3 roundsMocka cut on stills↻ new take, ≤3Videosmoving shots↻ fix, ≤3 roundsEdittakes joinedyou can change the shot sheet after the mockrendersEpisodea video fileYour coding agent runs 5 loops in order: Script, Shot sheet, Mock, Videos, Edit. Each loop checks its own work and redoes what fails, up to 3 rounds; the Videos loop makes a new take, up to 3 a shot. Between loops, you can change the shot sheet after the mock. The Edit loop renders the episode, a video file.YOUR CODING AGENTfix, ≤3Scriptthe storyfix, ≤3Shot sheetevery shotfix, ≤3Mocka cut on stillsnew take, ≤3Videosmoving shotsfix, ≤3Edittakes joined↑ you can change the shot sheet after the mockrendersEpisodea video file
Fig. 1 Each loop checks its own work and redoes what fails, then hands on to the next.

Loops

Your agent runs the loops in this order:

  • Script: the story and the episode script.
  • Shot sheet: every shot in the episode, and pictures of its characters and places.
  • Mock: the whole episode as still pictures with voices, music and captions, so you see it before any video.
  • Videos: a video take for every shot.
  • Edit: the finished episode as a video file.

Your agent runs minicut loop next, and the CLI prints the one command to run next.

If something still fails after 3 rounds, the loop stops and shows you what fails, and you decide.

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