Measured across all 136 hand-written pages, the twelve hardest to read were all
in prompting/. These ten were untouched — 29% to 40% of their sentences ran over
28 words, against a site median under 15%.
media-and-audio 39.7% -> 6.2% 15 semicolons -> 6
visual-specs 37.1% -> 19.0% 11 -> 9
weekly-updates 39.1% -> 0.0%
runtimes-and-3d 34.1% -> 17.5%
design-systems 34.0% -> 4.3%
recreating-references 33.3% -> 7.3% 16 -> 1
storyboards 31.9% -> 5.4%
variables-and-templating 30.3% -> 7.3%
generated-artwork 29.4% -> 9.1%
explainers 29.1% -> 3.3% 12 -> 1
Word counts barely move — 1752 to 1748, 1633 to 1617 — which is the point. The
facts and worked examples all survived; the sentences carrying them got shorter.
weekly-updates is an archive, so no date, version or fact changed there at all.
One anchor came back: capstone#the-full-prompt-verbatim, which these pages link
to and which an earlier commit had already moved to #the-prompt-word-for-word.
Repointed. Branch total: 0 broken pages, 0 broken anchors.
Thirty-two published videos were the raw render output. One 20-second catalog
preview was 60 MB at 25 Mbps — Blu-ray bitrate for a screen capture in a docs
page. Nothing autoplays, so no page shipped that silently, but a reader who
pressed play paid for it.
Re-encoded at 1280 wide, CRF 28, faststart, keeping audio where it existed.
Measured PSNR against the originals at ~38.5 dB, which is visually identical —
the first check I ran returned nothing and I mistook that for a pass, so this
number comes from a filter that actually worked.
Worth correcting one thing I said earlier: the catalog is not systemically
over-encoded. 190 videos, 0.36 GB, about 1.9 MB each. Six were over 10 MB. I
found two monsters and generalised from them.
Pages carrying more than 8 MB of video: 26 before, and the heaviest went from
140 MB to under 15 MB.
The durable fix is in generate-catalog-previews.ts, which had no delivery encode
at all — it published the render master directly. It has a web pass now, so the
next preview is born small instead of being cleaned up later.
Rewrites the pages that survive the restructure so they lead with what a reader
can accomplish, and points them at the sections added in the previous commit.
Page set and navigation are unchanged here; only content moves.
Keeps the skill count in README. CLAUDE.md's catalog-maintenance rule requires
the count to live in README and CLAUDE.md, and both now agree with the 19
directories under skills/.
## What
Adds the weekly digest entry for July 20 to July 27, 2026 to `docs/weekly-updates.mdx`.
Generated with `bun run changelog:weekly --from 2026-07-20 --to 2026-07-27 --write`, then rewritten to publish quality: entries grouped under Features, Fixes, and Docs, prose rewritten to describe user impact, and the `<!-- TODO: review -->` marker removed.
## Why
Keeps the public weekly-updates page current. The digest is the RSS-backed summary readers get between versioned releases.
## How
- Ran the generator over the July 20 to July 27 range.
- Rewrote the new `<Update>` block: 11 Features, 15 Fixes, 3 Docs bullets.
- Every commit and PR link the generator produced for these entries is retained. No link was invented; all references trace back to `updates/weekly/2026-07-27.md`.
- Headline items: professional color grading across core, Studio, and the CLI; a versioned distributed plan protocol with direct S3 and GCS publishing; the Studio keyframe ease editor; data-driven registry caption components.
- `renderStretch` (#2676) is deliberately omitted, since it was reverted in the same window by #2730 and is not present at HEAD.
- CI-only performance and internal refactor entries are omitted as not user-facing.
## Test plan
Docs-only change. No runtime code touched.
- [ ] Unit tests added/updated
- [x] Manual testing performed
- [x] Documentation updated (if applicable)
Verification performed:
- `git diff origin/main --stat` shows only `docs/weekly-updates.mdx`, 49 insertions and 0 deletions (purely additive, the prior week's entry is untouched).
- Confirmed the TODO marker is gone from the file.
- Confirmed every commit SHA and PR number in the new block appears in the generator's own draft, and that each link label matches its href.
- Confirmed the block contains no em-dashes and no stray JSX-unsafe characters outside inline code.
- `node scripts/check-tracked-artifacts.mjs` passes.
* docs(changelog): weekly digest 2026-07-13–2026-07-20
* docs(changelog): embed the weekly video in the Jul 13-20 digest
Adds the Jul 13-20 changelog video (produced via the changelog-video
skill, hosted at static.heygen.ai) at the top of the Update block using
Mintlify's <Frame> component with a native <video controls>.
Video URL: https://static.heygen.ai/hyperframes/changelog-videos/weekly-changelog-jul13-20.mp4
Slack thread: C0ACCNHLG3U · 1784565857.520599
Auto-generated weekly digest (bun run changelog:weekly), hand-cleaned to
publish quality. Grouped into Features / Fixes / Performance / Docs &
Examples with readable one-liners and commit + PR links.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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