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How Thariq used Fable 5 in Claude Code to edit its own launch video — Whisper, ffmpeg, Remotion pipeline. Replicable now that Fable is live July 1.
Jul 10, 2026
Anthropic's advisor tool lets Sonnet 5 execute while Fable 5 steers at decision points. explainx.ai covers /advisor setup, executor/advisor prompt split, and a game-dev template.
Jul 1, 2026
Fable 5 is live July 1. Thirty-five concrete tasks to run first — with Sonnet 5 fallbacks and GPT-5.6 on the same export timeline.
Jun 29, 2026
video-use is an open-source skill for Claude Code (and Codex, Hermes, Openclaw) that edits videos via natural language — no timeline scrubbing, no NLE menus. It reads footage as transcript text, reasons over word-level timestamps, calls ffmpeg, self-evaluates every cut, and outputs final.mp4. 11.6k GitHub stars in two months. Here is the full setup and how it works.
Update — July 7, 2026: Thariq's latest Field Guide to Fable AI Engineer talk — harness design, blind spot passes, and "being unreasonable" with Fable.
