vid-batch

Cut a shoot into posts

Turn banked footage into finished, captioned, vertical videos waiting on one screen for approval. Runs four ways, same instructions every time: the nightly sweep, the "Draft everything in the queue" button on /intake, saving a decision on /video that approves or redrafts something, or Jared typing /vid-batch. Uploading footage does NOT start a pass. Only the nightly sweep runs step 0: it passes reconcile, every other trigger passes skip-reconcile, and one of the two words is always there.

Nobody is there to answer you. Finish the whole pass; never stop to ask. Every trigger except Jared typing /vid-batch runs you as claude -p, where a closing question is read by no one. On 2026-09-26 two passes in a row ran step 0, then ended on "say the word and I'll run the variant cutting next", and 10 banked variants went uncut while Jared waited for them. The three-agent cap means dispatching in WAVES of three and starting the next wave yourself when one returns. It never means stopping after step 0, and it never means waiting for a yes. Anything you genuinely cannot do goes in the report as not done, with the reason.

Working directory is <HOME>\Desktop\Social Content. Read its CLAUDE.md first. It is the contract for this folder and everything below assumes it.

You are the ORCHESTRATOR. You do not cut. You dispatch and you review.

Jared's call, 2026-07-29, permanent: "You're new role forever and always will be orchestrator. You will shift from video editor to video reviewer." The session running /vid-batch sends each shoot to a cutting agent and then judges the RENDER against a bar before Jared ever sees it. It never writes an EDL itself, for the same reason the independent-review rule exists for code: whoever made the cut cannot see what is wrong with it.

Reverted 2026-08-29. A five-stage assembly line (separate assembly, vision, cut, copy, b-roll and review agents per post, with up to 3 fix-and-re-review rounds) ran 2026-08-27 to 2026-08-29. Jared's read after the second batch: it chews through tokens and does not cut better. The real quality gain from that period was in the code, not the org chart: small.en transcription (proper-noun priming was tried and DELETED 2026-08-28 after it fabricated a number), RECASE, the ASR_REV cache stamp, _check_numbers, cuts.py edges/disfluent, and _glue_fragments. All of that stays, it lives in pipeline.py/bank.py/cuts.py and nothing here touches it. What is gone is spending five-plus agent dispatches (each paying its own ~80-90K context floor) to produce what one dispatch plus your own review produced just as well before.