Examples

May 3, 2026 · View on GitHub

Use Archetypes first if you are choosing what kind of short to make. Use Quality And Review before promoting a render as ready. Use the Graphics Archetype Remake Plan when improving non-Reddit motion/card-heavy examples.

Showcase

Reddit Post Over Gameplay — default Reddit story mode: full-screen gameplay, Reddit opener card, captions, and no random clips
Showcase Gallery — fast visual map of demos, skills, maturity, and what each preview proves
Example Pages — categorized index of the example docs folder

Status Summary

Demo-backed status labels are checked against docs/demo/manifest.json by npm run showcase-status:check.

Lane	Status	Demo
`reddit-post-over-gameplay`	`golden showcase`	`demo-9`
`reddit-story-split-screen`	`workflow; rebuild demo`	archived, not public showcase
`stock-b-roll-explainer`	`showcase candidate`	`demo-10`
`text-thread-reveal`	`showcase candidate`	`demo-11`
`saas-problem-solution`	`showcase candidate`	`demo-12`
`fast-facts-countdown`	`showcase candidate`	`demo-13`
`motion-card-lesson`	`showcase candidate`	`demo-14`
`faceless-mixed-short`	`showcase candidate`	`demo-15`
`gameplay-confession-split`	`showcase candidate`	`demo-16`
`micro-doc-breakdown`	`proving candidate`	`demo-17`
`content-machine-reddit-gameplay-remix`	`supporting showcase candidate`	`demo-18`
`content-machine-motion-cards`	`supporting showcase candidate`	`demo-19`
`procedural-gameplay-backgrounds`	`supporting showcase candidate`	`demo-20`

demo-20 is now a 1080x1920 supporting showcase with audit and provenance evidence. Keep it framed as an additive 3D/procedural treatment, not the default content archetype.

Prompt Examples For Agent Harnesses

Use these inside Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, or another harness after installing the pack:

"Run Content Machine doctor and tell me what is missing before generation."
"Make a faceless stock-footage explainer about {topic} and review the final MP4 before calling it ready."
"Analyze {referenceVideoPath} as a winner, then generate a new short with the same pacing, not the same footage."
"Turn {longformVideo} into candidate shorts with longform-to-shorts; show the candidate plan before rendering."
"Use reddit-post-over-gameplay for this story. Keep gameplay full-screen and show the Reddit opener card for 3-5 seconds."

Secondary Real Renders

Stock Footage Edutainment — faceless-information showcase candidate with stock-style motion, narration, captions, and fast transition pulses
Text Message Drama — message story showcase candidate with staged chat cards over gameplay support
SaaS Problem Solution — product-card showcase candidate with pain, proof, and CTA beats
Facts Listicle — countdown facts showcase candidate with real voiceover, timed captions, card resets, and publish-prep validation
Motion Card Lesson — card-native educational showcase candidate with prompt, step, payoff, captions, and publish-prep validation
Faceless Mixed Short — mixed-source explainer candidate with voiceover, music bed, captions, diagrams, UI cards, and practical tip beats
Subway Confession Story — gameplay-backed storytime showcase candidate with top support footage, bottom Subway Surfers-style gameplay, and midpoint captions
Micro-Doc Breakdown — documentary-style proving candidate with archival cards, evidence inserts, narration, captions, and a base publish-prep pass
Content Machine Self-Demo Short — repo-explainer workflow with tracked Reddit/gameplay and motion-card preview variants
Procedural Gameplay Backgrounds — additive 3D/procedural gameplay treatment for caption-clean retention motion
Gemini Image-Led Shorts — real rendered MP4 gallery from the image-led path; useful as a supporting showcase, not the flagship lane

Workflows And Walkthroughs

These are runnable technique docs. Some use provider keys or older surfaces and should not be confused with flagship examples. Legacy CLI walkthroughs are marked in their pages; prefer harness-first skills and flows for new docs.

Content Machine self-demo

Use this when you want a short that explains the repo with its own generate-short path:

cat skills/generate-short/examples/content-machine-self-demo.request.json | \
  node --import tsx scripts/harness/generate-short.ts

Each completed generate-short run now emits provenance/asset-ledger.json; publish-prep reviews that ledger by default, so example promotion should include both the asset ledger and the publish-prep provenance.json result.

If provider keys or rate limits are not available, run the no-key smoke path instead. See Content Machine Self-Demo Short. Tracked supporting previews are demo-18 and demo-19.

cat <<'JSON' | node --import tsx scripts/harness/brief-to-script.ts
{
  "topic": "5 things every dev should know about Docker",
  "archetype": "listicle",
  "outputPath": "output/examples/docker-tips/script.json"
}
JSON

Side-by-side comparison

cat <<'JSON' | node --import tsx scripts/harness/run-flow.ts
{
  "flow": "generate-short",
  "runId": "redis-vs-pg",
  "input": {
    "topic": "Redis vs PostgreSQL for caching",
    "audio": { "voice": "af_heart" },
    "visuals": { "provider": "pexels", "orientation": "portrait" },
    "render": { "fps": 30, "downloadAssets": true }
  }
}
JSON

Research-driven news video

cat skills/reverse-engineer-winner/examples/request.json | \
  node --import tsx scripts/harness/reverse-engineer-winner.ts

AI-generated visuals (no stock footage)

Requires GOOGLE_API_KEY and NanoBanana config:

cat <<'JSON' | node --import tsx scripts/harness/run-flow.ts
{
  "flow": "generate-short",
  "runId": "nanobanana",
  "input": {
    "topic": "5 tips for writing better TypeScript",
    "visuals": { "provider": "nanobanana", "orientation": "portrait" }
  }
}
JSON

See NanoBanana + Ken Burns example for full config.

Additional Walkthroughs

Latest News Listicle — research → script → audio → visuals → video
Split-Screen Gameplay — gameplay on one half, stock B-roll on the other
Procedural Gameplay Backgrounds — 3D/procedural gameplay-like backgrounds as an additive visual treatment
Complex Plane Rotation — custom Remotion template with drawn diagrams
NanoBanana + Ken Burns — AI-generated images with motion effects
NanoBanana + Veo — AI images turned into video clips
Import Render Templates — using and creating custom templates

Proving Artifacts

Internal proving bundles live under experiments/ and are useful for honest maturity tracking, not for first-time showcase docs.

Proving Wave 1 — current best non-flagship candidates plus their review failures
Proving Wave 3 — one-at-a-time archetype proving with embedded demo MP4s

Runnable Examples

The fixtures/examples/ directory contains the repo's self-contained example packages you can run from source:

ls fixtures/examples/

Demo Gallery

See generated output samples and maturity labels in docs/demo/.