Claude Code now runs a 24-episode Odyssey video pipeline built from skills and critics
e3ntity_ · reddit · 2026-07-28
The author is using Claude to animate all 24 books of the Odyssey as a serialized narrated video project, one episode per book.
The interesting part is the architecture:
- Claude Code is the runtime; there is no separate application layer.
- Procedures are skills, and agents are markdown definitions.
- All state lives in files: JSON for metadata, TSX for scenes.
- The only real code is media plumbing.
The workflow includes:
- a planner agent that turns a topic into a scene list and narration,
- a scene-builder subagent that writes Remotion components and checks its own layouts,
- a visual-critic agent that renders stills and flags clutter, illegible text, stray arrows, and theme drift,
- a fact-critic agent that checks historical accuracy before rendering.
The author says critics matter more than expected because a single agent building a 30-minute video drifts heavily, while a separate reviewer that only sees the rendered result catches mistakes the builder cannot. Manual editing is still needed, especially for bad name tags and nonsensical visuals.
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