Analyze your chess games into commented videos
Observed in the wild: the builder recorded themselves thinking aloud during a 15+10 rapid game, then gave Claude Code the Lichess link and the mp3. Claude transcribed it locally with whisper.cpp and matched sentences to moves powered by PGN clock times. It produced an annotated PGN, an HTML board and a 6:49 narrated video with subtitles for The builder's real game.
- Agent or tool
- Claude Code
- Topic
- Media & Content
- Reported on
- Hacker News
- Added
- 2026-10-15
Why it matters
Making content involves a lot of production steps around the creative part. Here an agent takes on some of those steps so the person can focus on the idea. It is one of 62 sightings filed under Media & Content on Agent Sightings (number 43 by interest), and one of 164 involving Claude Code.
How you could try it
Here is a reusable prompt, written by us in our own words, that captures the task. Paste it into Claude Code or any similar agent and adjust the details to your situation.
Creative task: analyze your chess games into commented videos. Outline first, then draft. Preserve my voice; ask before posting publicly.
The prompt breaks down into 3 steps you can check as the agent works:
- Creative task: analyze your chess games into commented videos.
- Outline first, then draft.
- Preserve my voice; ask before posting publicly.
Tip: Start small: run it once on a low-stakes example, read what the agent did, and only then let it run on real work.
Source
Read the original first-hand account on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49857528. Our summary is a paraphrase; details are in the source.