Arcane Full Blast Video Workflow

A reusable production kit for Arcane Mind-style short-form videos: source notes, source-fidelity gates, image-first Grok/xAI planning, xAI TTS Rex narration, Remotion captions, QC receipts, and platform launch packs.

This repository is a workflow and example pack. It does not post to social accounts, spend xAI/Grok credits, read secrets, or publish generated media by default.

What Is Inside

• agent-workflows/ - portable copies of the Arcane production skill and the Full Blast Arcane lane reference.
• docs/agent-quickstart.md - the shortest path for another agent to learn and use the workflow.
• research/ - account strategy, guardrails, platform research, and retention playbook.
• workflows/ - production checklist, scorecard, and image-first pipeline examples.
• episodes/ - example episode packets.
• sources/ - source notes and source index examples.
• scripts/ - dry-run xAI planning, gated xAI generation/TTS helpers, timing fit utility, and repo validation.
• remotion/arcane-captions/ - Remotion caption/export source without local media or dependencies.
• router-handoffs/ - read-only Grok/agent router handoff contracts.
• platform-packs/ - example Reels, TikTok, and Shorts source packs.

Quick Start

1. Read AGENTS.md, research/arcane-mind-guardrails.md, and workflows/arcane-mind-episode-scorecard.md.
2. Save notes for a new episode as sources/episode-XXX-notes.md.
3. Create an episode packet in episodes/ using agent-workflows/arcane-short-video-production/references/templates.md.
4. Create or adapt workflows/episode-XXX-image-first-pipeline.json.
5. Run the no-spend plan:

python3 scripts/arcane_xai_plan.py \
  --plan workflows/episode-XXX-image-first-pipeline.json \
  --output exports/episode-XXX-image-first-dry-run.json \
  --dry-run

6. Get explicit approval before any paid xAI/Grok image/video generation or Rex TTS generation.
7. Use remotion/arcane-captions/ for burned-in captions and final export.
8. Record QC, platform packs, and Lumi status before calling an episode ready.

Agent Quickstart

Give another agent this instruction:

Read AGENTS.md, docs/agent-quickstart.md, and
agent-workflows/arcane-short-video-production/SKILL.md. Use the Arcane workflow
to turn source notes into an episode packet, no-spend generation plan, Rex
voiceover plan, Remotion caption path, QC checklist, and platform packs. Do not
spend API credits or post anywhere without explicit operator approval.

Validation

Run the lightweight repository checks:

python3 scripts/validate_repo.py

This verifies required files, parses JSON workflow/handoff files, compiles Python scripts, and confirms generated media/dependency folders are not present.

Safety

• Treat source fidelity as a publication gate.
• Keep Arcane Mind in historical/philosophical framing.
• Do not produce ritual instruction, prophecy, manifestation, health, wealth, romance, protection, or modern-science proof claims.
• Do not make API calls, spend credits, post, upload, schedule, commit, push, or deploy without explicit approval for that action.
• Keep generated media, local receipts, .env files, and node_modules out of Git.

Lumi

• Local: cloneable workflow repository.
• Committed/pushed: check Git state.
• Deployed/live: not applicable; this is a repository, not a live site.