Not a mockup
Everything on this page can be claimed by anyone. These three things cannot. They were taken out of the running system on 26 September 2026 and pasted in unedited, apart from shortening the scheduler's submission ids.
now: 2026-09-26 15:50:43 EDT both-editions 2026-09-26-morning [done] research:done script:done visuals:done voiceover:done assemble:done shorts:done publish:done long published now 716cdc21… short trump-rejects-iran-seven-day-ceasefire scheduled 2026-09-26T13:30:00.000Z b6995de7… short kyiv-drone-attack-kills-seven scheduled 2026-09-26T16:30:00.000Z 1b5a0052… deja-viral 2026-09-26-morning [done] research:done visuals:done shorts:done publish:done short flyover-flinch-vs-unbothered scheduled 2026-09-26T14:00:00.000Z a302f092… short calm-sip-sudden-shadowbox scheduled 2026-09-26T20:00:00.000Z c2ebd50a… short grownup-prized-possession-scream scheduled 2026-09-27T00:00:00.000Z 76f248f2… deja-viral 2026-09-27-morning [done] research:done visuals:done shorts:done publish:done short new-species-just-dropped scheduled 2026-09-27T14:00:00.000Z 1a456052… short fake-heirloom-portrait-prank scheduled 2026-09-27T20:00:00.000Z b3676c47… short oh-boy-one-then-a-hundred scheduled 2026-09-28T00:00:00.000Z 0f7054f4… suddenly 2026-09-26-morning [done] research:done script:done visuals:done voiceover:done assemble:done shorts:done publish:done long published now 3b4ea016… thumbnail rejected: Please confirm that your YouTube account is verified, then reconnect it in Blotato to use custom thumbnails. (posted without thumbnail) short nahui-ollin-aztec-52-year-cycle scheduled 2026-09-26T17:00:00.000Z 3e11c67d… short india-asian-games-shooting-gold-sept-25 scheduled 2026-09-26T20:00:00.000Z 65516846… launchd: com.mizudev.yca.suddenly.morning pid=- last_exit=0 com.mizudev.yca.suddenly.catchup pid=- last_exit=0 com.mizudev.yca.both-editions.morning pid=- last_exit=0 com.mizudev.yca.both-editions.evening pid=- last_exit=0 com.mizudev.yca.both-editions.catchup pid=- last_exit=0 com.mizudev.yca.deja-viral.morning pid=- last_exit=0 com.mizudev.yca.deja-viral.catchup pid=- last_exit=0
Three channels, one morning. The line in red is a real failure: YouTube would not take the custom thumbnail on an unverified account, so the run posted the video without one and said so instead of reporting success. That is the behaviour you are buying — it tells you what went wrong at 5am rather than at the end of the month.
{ "id": "2026-09-26-morning", "channel_id": "suddenly", "edition": "morning", "status": "done", "mock": false, "steps": { // artifact paths are relative to the run dir "research": { "status": "done", "attempts": 1, "artifact": "research.json" }, "script": { "status": "done", "attempts": 1, "artifact": "script.json" }, "visuals": { "status": "done", "attempts": 1, "artifact": "visuals.json" }, "voiceover": { "status": "done", "attempts": 1, "artifact": "voiceover.json" }, "assemble": { "status": "done", "attempts": 1, "artifact": "assemble.json" }, "shorts": { "status": "done", "attempts": 1, "artifact": "shorts.json" }, "publish": { "status": "done", "attempts": 1, "artifact": "publish.json" } } }
Every step writes one of these before it hands over. It is what "resumes where it stopped" actually means: the run reads this file, sees which steps already have an artifact, and starts at the first one that does not. attempts is how you find out a step is flaky before it costs you a night.
research 15:05:54 → 15:05:54 0s script 15:13:20 → 15:13:20 0s voiceover 15:16:29 → 15:18:04 1m35s visuals 15:20:12 → 15:20:26 14s assemble 15:20:50 → 15:28:41 7m51s shorts 15:29:06 → 15:31:08 2m02s publish 15:38:31 → 15:38:31 0s ─────────────────────────────────── wall clock 33 minutes
Read off the timestamps in the same run.json. Thirty-three minutes of machine time for one edition and two Shorts, of which the two ffmpeg steps are ten. The steps that print 0s finished in a prior agent call and were recorded on handoff — the number is the state write, not the work.
The page above says a gate rejects real people, brands and music before any generation spend. Here is that gate's own record from one morning, including the part that is less flattering.
All 5 approved as written. No real person (toy researchers, paper grandma, anonymous people from behind, snail/teapot duo), no brand/IP (no Nat Geo, Ancestry, DC/Lanterns, Kardashian reference), no named music (all original score /SFX; oh-boy audio not used), no harm, format-level only. Sameness check: tilt-shift diorama, paper cut-out, macro nature, handheld phone-cam street, claymation — all visually distinct.
The honest part: the deterministic word list returned hits: [] on all five. It caught nothing. Every rejection above came from the reviewer agent reading the candidates. The word list is a cheap floor, not the gate — the architecture document in the kit says the same thing, and you should price the risk accordingly.
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