Envie

AI video, verified.

Describe a video to your AI. Get a real file back.

Envie gives Claude Code and any MCP client a deterministic render engine: headless Chrome filmed frame by frame, six verification gates, and a full read-back layer. Free. No watermark. No account.

By GOL Productions.

The Problem

AI can write code. AI can describe video. But AI can't see what it made—so it guesses, you render, it's wrong, you describe what's wrong, repeat.

The Solution

You: "Make me a 15-second launch video for my app"
AI:  [writes HTML composition]
AI:  [calls envie_render]
AI:  [calls envie_see to check frames]
AI:  "Done. Video at output.mp4. All 6 gates passed."

Envie renders what your AI writes, verifies it machine-checks, and lets your AI see the result. No guessing.

Install

npx @golproductions/envie@latest setup

Detects Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf—registers with all of them. Then just ask:

"Make me a 15-second vertical launch video for my app"

{ "mcpServers": { "envie": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "@golproductions/envie", "mcp"] } } }

Or for Claude Code:

claude mcp add --scope user envie -- npx -y @golproductions/envie mcp

How It Works

┌─────────────┐     ┌─────────────┐     ┌─────────────┐     ┌─────────────┐
│   WRITE     │ ──► │   RENDER    │ ──► │   VERIFY    │ ──► │    SEE      │
│             │     │             │     │             │     │             │
│ AI writes   │     │ Chrome films│     │ 6 gates     │     │ AI checks   │
│ HTML comp   │     │ frame by    │     │ machine-    │     │ frames at   │
│             │     │ frame       │     │ check video │     │ timestamps  │
└─────────────┘     └─────────────┘     └─────────────┘     └─────────────┘

1. Write

Your AI reads envie_guide and writes a composition: one self-contained HTML file with CSS animations, WebGL, Canvas, GIFs—whatever the browser can render.

2. Render

envie_render films it deterministically. Headless Chrome with a virtualized clock: performance.now(), Date.now(), requestAnimationFrame, setTimeout—all seeked frame by frame.

Same composition = same video. Every time.

3. Verify

Six gates machine-check the result before delivery:

| Gate | What it checks | |------|----------------| | G1 | File exists, valid container, ≥2.9s duration | | G2 | Has both video and audio streams | | G3 | Audio isn't silent (mean > -50dB) | | G4 | No black segment > 2 seconds | | G5 | No freeze > 8 seconds, < 60% total still time | | G6 | Final 15% isn't dead (frozen or black) |

A failing video comes back marked FAILED, with the gate report and an instruction not to deliver it, so your AI fixes the composition and renders again.

4. See

envie_see returns frames at chosen timestamps so your AI can judge layout and pacing—not just whether the file exists.

5. Translate

envie_translate reads the finished file as data: per-frame motion, every cut and fade, still holds, LUFS, true peak, and how each audio hit sits against the nearest picture event.

Requirements

| Requirement | Notes | |-------------|-------| | Node 24+ | Or later | | Chrome | Or set ENVIE_CHROME to your binary | | ffmpeg + ffprobe | Must be on PATH | | Audio | Required. Videos with no audio fail G2 and G3 |

Audio options

| Option | Platform | Description | |--------|----------|-------------| | --narration "text" | Windows only | Local TTS voiceover (SAPI) | | --audio file.wav | All platforms | Overlay any wav/mp3/m4a |

Runs entirely on your machine. Nothing reaches GOL servers.

Formats

| Flag | Container | Codec | |------|-----------|-------| | --format h264 | .mp4 | libx264 (default) | | --format h265 | .mp4 | libx265 10-bit | | --format prores | .mov | ProRes 422 HQ 10-bit | | --format prores4444 | .mov | ProRes 4444 10-bit | | --format dnxhr | .mov | DNxHR HQ |

CLI

npx @golproductions/envie@latest setup                   # register MCP server
npx @golproductions/envie@latest uninstall               # remove everything Envie added
envie render <comp.html> -o out.mp4 [options]            # render video
envie see    <comp.html|video.mp4> [--at 1000,4000]      # extract frames
envie verify <video.mp4>                                 # run gates
envie translate <video.mp4>                              # analyze motion/audio
envie guide                                              # print authoring guide
envie mcp                                                # start MCP server

envie here means npx @golproductions/envie@latest. Use @latest: plain npx runs an older globally installed copy if one exists.

Render options

--narration "text"     # TTS voiceover (Windows)
--audio file.wav       # Overlay audio file
--fps 24               # Frame rate (default: 24)
--format h264          # Output codec
-o output.mp4          # Output path

Composition Format

One self-contained HTML file:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
  body { margin: 0; width: 1080px; height: 1920px; overflow: hidden; }
  /* your animations */
</style>
</head>
<body data-duration-ms="15000" data-width="1080" data-height="1920">
  <!-- your content -->
</body>
</html>

Required attributes

| Attribute | Description | |-----------|-------------| | data-duration-ms | Video length in milliseconds (3000–300000) | | data-width | Canvas width (default: 1920) | | data-height | Canvas height (default: 1080) |

What's virtualized

Everything the browser can animate:

• CSS animations, transitions
• Web Animations API
• requestAnimationFrame
• setTimeout, setInterval
• Canvas 2D, WebGL
• performance.now(), Date.now(), new Date()
• Animated images (GIF, WebP, APNG, AVIF)
• Math.random(), crypto.getRandomValues (seeded)
• Classic Web Workers (run on the virtual clock)

NOT virtualized (avoid):

• Module Web Workers and strict-mode worker code
• WebAudio-driven visuals

Intent Assertions

Declare what the composition must achieve:

<body data-duration-ms="12000"
      data-expect-sync-ms="120"
      data-expect-no-holds-longer-than="3">

| Assertion | Meaning | |-----------|---------| | data-expect-sync-ms="120" | Audio hits must land within 120ms of a picture event | | data-expect-no-holds-longer-than="3" | No still hold may exceed 3 seconds |

Failures are reported test-style:

SYNC FAIL: mean audio-to-picture offset 380ms exceeds tolerance 120ms
HOLD FAIL: 2 hold(s) exceed 3s: 4.20s @0.40s, 3.10s @7.80s

Deterministic Rendering

The render engine virtualizes time itself:

// Inside the page during render:
performance.now()  // → virtual clock
Date.now()         // → virtual clock
new Date()         // → virtual clock
Math.random()      // → seeded PRNG

// Same seed, same composition = identical output

This is how the same HTML produces the same video, every render.

What "deterministic" means

Same machine + same Chrome version + same composition = bit-identical output.

Cross-environment, you may see variation from:

• Font rendering (anti-aliasing, hinting differ by OS/GPU)
• WebGL/Canvas floating-point precision
• Chrome version changes
• System font fallbacks (embed fonts to avoid)

The guarantee is reproducibility on your machine, not cross-platform bit-identity. That's the right scope: your AI iterates locally, re-renders, gets the same result.

Your Work Is Yours

GOL claims no ownership over your compositions or videos. Envie runs on your machine. Nothing you make reaches us.

License

Free to use, personal or commercial, under the GOL Free License. Envie is built by GOL Productions: you may use it and share unmodified copies with the credit, but not publish changed versions, build your own product from it, or sell it. What you make with it is yours. See LICENSE.

GOL Productions

Envie is part of the GOL Productions toolchain.

• Check — Anti-hallucination layer for Claude Code
• Exnos — Live browser verification

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