Personal Project
The Context Archive
A documentary channel where the tooling does the production and I am the approval step.
See it live- Impact
- Six videos, 17 shorts, so far
- Timeline
- Ongoing
- Role
- Human in the loop
Record
The Challenge
The Context Archive is a research-led documentary channel, and it is my own. The interesting part is that I do not make the videos myself. Research, scripting, design, render and publishing all run through agents against a design system I built for the channel. My job is to approve or reject, which means the thing I actually spend time on is judgement rather than production.
The Solution
The same pattern I use for client design systems, pointed at myself: a system that defines the channel's look and voice precisely enough that tooling can execute it. It is portable across Claude Code, Codex and Cowork, so the work is not tied to whichever tool I happen to open. It is still early: six videos and 17 shorts published by the end of October 2026, on history read straight from the sources. What it shows is that a one-person production line can run on approvals instead of hours, and that a design system written for machines holds up when a human is not watching each step.