CRAFT Studio

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Getting Started ​

CRAFT Studio is a YouTube content creation platform with AI-powered idea generation, script writing, video production, audio, competitive research, and multi-source resource discovery — backed by PostgreSQL, NATS workers, and 14 specialized AI agents.

What You Can Do ​

  • Generate Ideas — AI-powered brainstorming with channel personality, or save from YouTube research
  • Write Scripts — AI write, revise, polish with fact-checking and humanization (Claude, Gemini, Ollama)
  • Produce Videos — 65+ Remotion components with an 8-stage pipeline orchestrated by AI agents
  • Research Competitors — YouTube search with outlier detection, channel deep dives, and earnings estimates
  • Curate Content — AI-scored proposals, approval workflows, and episode pipeline tracking
  • Produce Audio — 300+ TTS voices with screenplay-aware parsing, GPU speech synthesis, and voice cloning
  • Find Resources — Search 14 royalty-free sources for video, image, audio, and reference material
  • Track Jobs — Async NATS workers for AI generation, rendering, and downloads with real-time SSE updates
  • Go Mobile — Android companion app with full dashboard parity over your local network

Architecture ​

Browser ──> Express API (port 8080) ──> Docker
              |-- AI (Claude Agent SDK + Gemini + Ollama)
              |-- 14 AI Agents (research, write, storyboard, composite...)
              |-- YouTube (yt-dlp + Data API)
              |-- TTS (Edge TTS, ElevenLabs, OpenAI, OpenedAI Speech)
              |-- NATS JetStream Workers (idea, tts, discover, render...)
              |-- Multi-tenant Auth (Keycloak OIDC, role-based)
              |-- Feedback → GitHub Issues (Haiku grooming + worker)
              |-- PostgreSQL (shared with Keycloak)
              |-- Redis Caching (L1 memory → L2 Redis)
              |-- Remotion Video (65+ components, Chromium render)
              \-- GPU Services (Ollama, ComfyUI, MusicGen, RVC)

Mobile App ──> Same Express API (local network)

Quick Start ​

The recommended deployment is Helm on k3s — see the Kubernetes guide for full setup.

bash
git clone https://github.com/VibeSmiths/VideoIdeas.git
cd VideoIdeas
helm dependency update ./helm/craft
helm upgrade --install craft ./helm/craft -f helm/craft/values-dev.yaml \
  --set image.tag=$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)

Local Development Alternative ​

For a self-contained local environment without Kubernetes:

bash
cp app/.env.example app/.env    # Add your API keys
docker compose -f docker-compose.dev.yml up -d

Open the studio at http://localhost:8080 (or /studio behind a reverse proxy).

TIP

Only GEMINI_API_KEY is required to get started. Claude uses your Pro subscription (OAuth), and most other features work without API keys.

Next Steps ​