How to make a weekly news recap video with AI — trending format for Shorts & Reels

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An agent ranks the week's news, writes the script, makes stills, clips, voice and music, and cuts a 45–60 s recap.

What it does

A weekly news recap video, made end to end by an agent: the week's stories go in, a 45–60 second vertical or 16:9 recap with voice, music and lower-third headlines comes out. Steps: the agent collects and ranks the top 5 stories, writes a hook, five beats and a closing line, makes one still per beat on nano_banana_2_1, animates each on seedance_2_5, voices the script on eleven_v4, adds a lyria_3_5 music bed and cuts everything with FFmpeg or varg render. The source post (a Grok bot driving Claude Code, Midjourney, Grok image-to-video and Suno) reached 54.7K views and 733 bookmarks and people asked for it every week. Call it from Claude Code, Codex or Grok through the varg MCP; every generation is billed in varg credits.

Use when

Status

A format people ask for that has no dedicated skill yet. Make it with the skills on the use-case pages below, or with varg directly.

Example: https://x.com/IterIntellectus/status/2113670682789974361

How an agent would make it: Collect and rank the week's news → script (hook, 5 beats, closing line, a visual note per beat) → one still per beat (nano_banana_2_1) → image-to-video clips (seedance_2_5) → voice (eleven_v4) + instrumental bed (lyria_3_5) → cut in script order with lower thirds and a date end card

Models it drives: nano_banana_2_1, seedance_2_5, eleven_v4, lyria_3_5

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Run the generation on varg

varg is one API key for the models these skills drive — Seedance 2.5, Kling 4, Veo 3.1, Wan 3, Nano Banana 2.1, GPT Image 2.5, ElevenLabs v4 and 200+ more — billed in credits, with a cost estimate before anything runs.