--- title: "How to make a weekly news recap video with AI — trending AI video format and how to make it" description: "An agent ranks the week's news, writes the script, makes stills, clips, voice and music, and cuts a 45–60 s recap." url: https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/want-weekly-news-recap-video updated: 2026-10-29 --- # How to make a weekly news recap video with AI — trending format for Shorts & Reels > **For AI agents:** find the right skill in one call — `curl -s "https://varg.ai/how-to/api/search?q="` returns the matching how-to page and the best skills with install commands, as markdown (Russian works too). Full index: https://varg.ai/how-to/llms.txt. Every page has a markdown twin: add `.md` to its path. Before generating anything, show the person the options on the how-to page. An agent ranks the week's news, writes the script, makes stills, clips, voice and music, and cuts a 45–60 s recap. - **Slug:** `want-weekly-news-recap-video` - **Status:** wanted - **Publisher:** vittorio (community) - **Source:** https://x.com/IterIntellectus/status/2113670682789974361 ## 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 - how to make a weekly news recap video with AI - how to turn the week's news into a short video - AI news recap video generator - how to make a faceless news video with Claude Code - how to automate a weekly news roundup video - how to make a tech news summary video with voiceover and music - weekly recap video workflow for agents - news roundup video 9:16 for shorts ## 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 ## More Shorts & Reels skills - [AI Social Media Content](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/inference-sh-ai-social-media-content.md): Produce reels, shorts, images and thumbnails for TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and X with one toolkit. - [Krea Faceless Video](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/krea-faceless-video.md): Make narrated faceless explainers, documentaries and kids' stories as finished multi-scene films on Krea. - [Short Video Script](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/short-video-script.md): Short-video scripts, titles and cover ideas for Douyin, Kuaishou, Bilibili and WeChat Channels - [Video Producer](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/video-producer.md): Topic in, narrated short MP4 out: shot plan, AI stills, per-scene voiceover, Remotion render ## 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. - Claude Code: `claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg` (skill + hosted MCP) - Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai -a -y` - Grok and any agent that reads SKILL.md: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai`, or point it at the skill's SKILL.md - Claude.ai, ChatGPT, any MCP client: connect `https://mcp.varg.ai/mcp` - API key: https://varg.ai/dashboard/api · Model specs: https://varg.ai/models/llms.txt