Compose — Studio Console

SET ANTHROPIC_API_KEY FIRST

Compose calls Claude Haiku to formalize your script into a project YAML. The console reads ANTHROPIC_API_KEY from your environment at server start. Set it and restart STUDIO.bat (or python -m studio.console):

set ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-ant-...

The key is server-side only; never returned to the browser.

COMPOSE A NEW PROJECT

Pick a video type, pick characters, pick a scene, set style and intensity, type or paste a script. One Haiku call (~$0.0015 cached) formalizes it into a project YAML and writes it to tv/studio/projects/. From there, render via the dashboard.

Title (optional — auto-derived if blank)

Video type

Scene (backdrop)

Style variant

Brain-rot intensity (0.0 = off, 1.0 = standard, 1.5 = max chaos) 0.0

Target length (seconds)

Script (your voice — Haiku won't rewrite, only chunk)

Use your own Anthropic API key — skip the demo quota; key stays in your browser, sent only in transit for one Haiku call, never stored or logged

ANTHROPIC_API_KEY (starts with sk-ant-):

Saved to your browser's localStorage. Never sent to anyone except api.anthropic.com (in this version, transit-only via the studio server; full browser-direct mode coming). Your one-Haiku-per-IP demo quota is bypassed when you supply a key.
clear saved key · get a key

Auto-render after compose

composing… (~5s)

HOW IT WORKS

Validate inputs — preset / scene / style / cast / intensity / length all checked against allowlists server-side.
Build prompt — stable cast roster + scene catalog + preset structure cached via prompt caching (cache_control: ephemeral). Volatile script appended after. Repeat calls re-price only the script delta.
Single Haiku call — claude-haiku-4-5, structured output via output_config.format with a JSON schema. Haiku returns a segment list with speakers, emotions, camera moves, scene names.
Validate response — every segment's enum values (speaker, emotion, scene, camera_move) checked against the same allowlists.
Write YAML — to tv/studio/projects/_compose_<slug>.project.yaml. Path-traversal-safe.
Render — go back to the dashboard and click Render on the new project.

Total cost per video: ~$0.0015 with cache hit, ~$0.015 cold start. See studio/console/compose.py for the full implementation.