OpenMontage is a Python toolkit that turns an AI coding assistant such as Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Windsurf or Codex into a video production setup. You describe the video, and the assistant moves through fixed stages: research, proposal, script, scene plan, assets, edit and compose. No separate orchestrator program runs the show. The assistant reads YAML pipeline manifests and a Markdown director skill for each stage, then calls the Python tools itself. The repository has pipelines for animated explainers, cinematic trailers, documentary montages, talking-head edits, screen demos, podcast clips, and localization with dubbing, among others. It connects to many providers, including Kling, Veo, Runway, FLUX, ElevenLabs and Suno, and to local options: Piper for speech, WAN or Hunyuan video models on a GPU, and Remotion, HyperFrames and FFmpeg for rendering. With no API keys at all it can still narrate with Piper, pull footage from Archive.org, NASA and Wikimedia Commons, and render with Remotion. Creative stages wait for your approval, and a local board called Backlot shows each stage, the generated assets and the money spent. Budget controls estimate costs before generation, with a default total cap of $10 and a confirmation step for any single action above $0.50.
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