How it works
A topic goes in.
A film and its Shorts come out.
Faceless Line is a team of AI agents in Claude Code, on your own computer. You pick the topic and you upload the film. Everything in between is the line: 13 steps, each with its own prompts and its own checks.
Youone click
Pick a topic
Claudeon your computer
Makes the film
- Researches the story
- A second agent checks every fact
- Writes the script
- Records the voice
- Finds a picture for every sentence
- Adds maps, years and quotes
- Cuts the film in 1080p
Youa few minutes
Upload it
- film.mp4
- 3 titles
- description
- chapters
- thumbnail prompt
Not one prompt
13steps31prompts15model roles68,119lines of PythonThe line
Thirteen steps.
Seven stages.
Each step is an agent with its own prompt and rules, and each hands its work to the next. Claude shows you which step runs and what every step made.
Stage 1Facts
Before a word is written.
- 01FactsResearches the topic, then a second agent tries to refute every claim. Only the claims that hold reach the script.
Stage 2Script
- 02ScriptWrites the narration from the checked claims: a cold open, a bridge into the story, the acts and the ending.
Stage 3Voice
- 03VoiceRecords the narration, measures the time of every word and plans one shot for every sentence.
Stage 4Pictures
One picture for every sentence.
- 04Plan picturesDecides from each sentence what its shot must show, and which shots become maps or timelines.
- 05Channel shotsAdds your channel's own shots for the subscribe moment: its badge and a wall of its films.
- 06Find picturesDraws the maps and timelines, and searches Wikimedia Commons and the web for every other shot.
- 07Choose picturesLooks at the candidates side by side and picks the one that shows what the sentence names.
- 08Fix picturesRewrites the shots that found nothing towards what was really photographed, searches again and closes the last gaps.
Stage 5Cards
What appears on screen.
- 09CardsPlans the cards over the finished words and pictures: years, numbers, quotes, lists and maps.
- 10ScenesPlans the animated scenes: prints sliding in, counters, stamps and dossiers.
Stage 6Cut
- 11CutFetches the full-size pictures and cuts the 1080p film: motion on every picture, the cards and scenes, grain and the end screen.
Stage 7Upload package
- 12Upload textsWrites three titles, the description, the chapters and the tags.
- 13Thumbnail promptWrites the thumbnail prompt to paste into ChatGPT, with the photo and the logo to attach.
Checks
It checks its own work.
Before you see it.
A film is only as good as its weakest shot, so the line does not trust its own first draft.
A sceptic for every claim
A second agent tries to prove each claim wrong before the script exists. What it cannot confirm is not narrated.
The picture shows the sentence
A sentence about a factory shows that factory, not any factory. Pictures are chosen by what the sentence names, never as filler.
No watermarks
Candidates are screened for watermarks, burned-in logos and captions before one can be picked.
Measured before the cut
Gates check the script before the voice and every shot before the cut: length, black frames, repeats and the look.
What you get
A film and its Shorts.
And everything to upload them.
The film
A narrated documentary of 8 to 60 minutes in 1080p, as long as you set it, with a picture for every sentence, cards and an end screen.
Three Shorts
Three vertical Shorts cut from the film's strongest moments, with captions, ready for YouTube Shorts.
Titles, description, chapters
Three titles to choose from, a formatted description, chapters with timestamps and tags.
A ready prompt
A prompt for ChatGPT with the film's own photo and logo to attach. The 50 thumbnail styles give it a look.
Where every picture is from
The source page and licence of every picture, so you can check it and credit the author.
What you need
A computer.
And a Claude plan.
The agents think in Claude's cloud; your computer runs the line, keeps the pictures and cuts the film.
A computer
Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit) and an internet connection; a Mac version comes later. Leave about 7 GB free for each film while it is being made.
A Claude plan with Claude Code
The agents run in Claude Code, signed in with your own plan: Pro at $20 a month, or Max from $100 a month for more films a week.
A voice
You choose it in the app: free with Chatterbox on an NVIDIA graphics card, or a Fish Audio or ElevenLabs narrator on its own plan.
ChatGPT, for thumbnails
The thumbnail prompt goes into ChatGPT, which makes the image from your photos.
Runs on your Claude plan.
Right on your computer.
Faceless Line is a team of AI agents on your own computer, in Claude Code. It uses your Claude subscription (Pro from $20 a month), so there is no API bill and no fee per film.
Faceless Line · Claude CodeExample~/Faceless Line claude ✓ Signed in with your Claude plan No API key. No credits. No fee per film. The line picks the model for each step: research a fast model sceptic the strongest model script the strongest model
PS> irm https://facelessline.com/install.ps1 | iex Faceless Line helper is installed and added to Claude Code. Your kit: C:\Users\you\Faceless Line > /setup ✓ This computer is connected to your account ✓ ffmpeg and the word times model are ready ✓ Voice: the free voice, on your graphics card
> /film Three topics for your channel, each checked for free pictures: 1 How PAN AM Went From the World's Airline to Nothing 2 Why BLOCKBUSTER Said No to Netflix 3 How SEARS Lost the Store It Invented Which one? Or name your own. > 1
> /film pan-am auto ✓ research 38 claims, 35 confirmed by the sceptic ✓ script 3,412 words in 7 parts ✓ voice 24:51, the free voice ✓ word times 99% of the words heard ✓ pictures 214 shots, each with its licence ● cards 12 of 18
✓ film check passed Ready in films/pan-am: film.mp4 1080p, 25:02 film.srt the subtitles upload.md 3 titles, description, chapters shorts/ 3 Shorts, 9:16, with captions You upload it. That step stays yours.
Your topic.
Its film.
No editing, no API bill, no fee per film.
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Picture credits
Pictures in the samples. Via Wikimedia Commons: Bain News Service, Public domain · Wm. Notman & Son, Public domain · Leon Abdalian, Public domain · Lalupa, Public domain · Prebbleqram, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Prebbleqram, CC BY-SA 3.0 · base map by Tom Patterson, Nathaniel Vaughn Kelso and others (Natural Earth), CC0 · U.S. Government Printing Office, Public domain · United States Army, Public domain · André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri, CC0 · Charles Marville, Public domain · Pierre Petit, Public domain · Selbymay, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Lewis Hine, Public domain · Lewis Hine, National Child Labor Committee Collection, Public domain · Reagan White House Photographs, Public domain · Chaz Fenn (KO Magazine), Public domain · David Lee Waite, Public domain · unknown author, Public domain · J.B.S. Jackson, Public domain · Van Horn JD, Irimia A, Torgerson CM and others, CC BY 2.5 · John Martyn Harlow, Public domain · George Grantham Bain Collection, Public domain. Via the Library of Congress: Brogi, no known restrictions · Office of War Information (FSA/OWI Collection), Public domain · Lewis Hine, National Child Labor Committee Collection, no known restrictions · National Photo Company Collection, no known restrictions · Bain Collection, no known restrictions · Bain News Service, Public domain · unknown photographer, no known restrictions. Via archive.org: Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 1848, Public domain · a biographical history of 1911, Public domain. From elsewhere: Montreal police mugshot of Charles Ponzi, 1910, Public domain (History Hit) · Truman Library / National Archives, Public domain · Phineas Gage memorabilia (himetop.wikidot.com), CC BY-SA 3.0. Everything else in the samples was drawn for the films by the line.