# 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.

Fig. 1: your coding agent runs Script, Shot sheet, Mock, Videos, Edit in this order. Each loop checks its own work and redoes what fails, up to 3 rounds (Videos: up to 3 takes a shot). Between loops, you can change the shot sheet after the mock. Edit renders the episode, a video file.

## 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.

## Next

[Quickstart](/docs/cli/quickstart) [Install with your agent](/docs/cli/install-with-your-agent)