Summary
Craig Hewitt, founder of podcast hosting company Castos, takes viewers through a live, unscripted build of a fully automated video editing pipeline using Claude Code as the central orchestrator. Rather than presenting a polished final product, the video is intentionally raw — showing real errors, course corrections, and the iterative back-and-forth that characterizes genuine agentic development in practice.
The pipeline combines Claude Code for orchestration and planning, Whisper running locally for transcription, FFmpeg for video cutting and assembly, and Hyperframes via the Higsfield MCP integration for generating animated HTML/React-based graphic overlays and B-roll. Hewitt walks through his setup in the Zed editor and Ghosty terminal emulator, and explains how Hyperframes creates animations by generating React-rendered HTML — making it swappable for future tools as the space evolves. The system ingests raw footage plus a brand kit and style references, then makes cut decisions automatically.
Hewitt’s broader philosophy — spending significant time upfront on vision, constraints, and context before handing off to Claude, rather than expecting one-shot magic — runs throughout the video and provides a practical mental model for anyone building agentic creative workflows. The video is particularly useful for developers and content creators interested in how MCP tools bridge AI agents to external creative software, with a modular architecture designed to remain useful as individual components are superseded.
📺 Source: Craig Hewitt · Published August 06, 2026
🏷️ Format: Hands On Build
