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Opus 5.5 creates explainer videos via serverless agent

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launchvideo.io lets you paste a URL or describe a product. Opus 5.5 writes the film and a serverless agent renders it. Each video takes about four minutes and roughly 100k tokens. Examples include Jev by Type Safe AI, Open Computer, and Infera (from a prompt).

The system uses a serverless agent on Open Computer. The whole product is one agent file, three tools, and this form. The agent uses anthropic/claude-opus-5.5 through Open Computer's model gateway, consuming roughly 90k input and 15k output tokens per film.

Each job runs in a fresh micro VM: Amazon Linux 2023 on arm64, 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, Node 22. Three tools define functionality: web_fetch returns page text and design info, check_scene loads the film and reports JS errors, and render_video renders and uploads. Rendering uses a virtual clock for deterministic frames at 1920x1080, 30 fps, with JPEG frames piped into libx264.

The agent holds no secrets. The form mints a Vercel Blob upload token scoped to one path for three hours. The finished MP4 is a public Blob URL. The control plane uses the same API the CLI does. Everything is in the repo and one click deploys to your account.