Content toolchain

hearth ships a fully-local content-creation toolchain so an agent can produce media without any cloud service. Because agents run with full shell reach, the tools just need to be on PATH.

Enabled by default with hearth.creator.enable.

What is included

Tool	Use
ffmpeg	Assemble and encode video and audio, overlays, captions.
yt-dlp	Pull source clips from the web.
imagemagick	Image manipulation, thumbnails, caption frames.
sox	Audio shaping.
piper-tts	Fully-local neural text-to-speech for voiceover.

Why it is here

It lets an agent run an end-to-end media loop entirely on your hardware: research a template, pull clips, assemble, caption, and voice a video, all on the box’s GPU with nothing leaving the machine. Combined with the marathon and permission modes, you can hand a content goal to an agent and supervise it from the cockpit or over Telegram.

If you do not want these tools installed, set hearth.creator.enable = false.