Jobs & Workers
Long-running tasks in CRAFT Studio run as background jobs so the UI stays responsive. Jobs are channel-scoped and — except for a handful of always-on tasks like TTS and resource downloads — premium-only.
Opening the Jobs panel
Click the channel pill in the top chrome, then Jobs in the dropdown. The entry only appears for premium users (admin auto-qualifies — see Roles).
What runs as a job
| Job | What it does |
|---|---|
| Orchestrate | Drives the 8-stage Episode pipeline with quality gates and feedback loops |
| Idea | AI idea generation in character voice |
| Proposals | AI-scored proposals with trend analysis |
| Fact-check | Claim verification across the script |
| Humanize | Detect and rewrite AI-sounding passages |
| TTS | Text-to-speech rendering and merge |
| Discover | YouTube research (yt-dlp) with progressive filtering |
| Resource download | Pull assets from the 14 sources |
| Render | Remotion → MP4 export (Chromium) |
Lifecycle
Every job goes through the same four states you'll see in the panel:
- Queued — submitted, waiting for a worker slot.
- Running — a worker picked it up; progress streams live over server-sent events.
- Completed — success; result is persisted (e.g. new script, rendered MP4).
- Failed — error captured; failed jobs retry automatically up to three times before requiring manual intervention.
Each job row expands to show streamed output, duration, and (where applicable) a link to the produced artifact.
Cancellation
Any running job can be cancelled from its row. Multi-stage jobs (the 8-stage pipeline) stop cleanly at the next stage boundary so they don't leave half-finished artifacts behind.
Why jobs?
Running work off the main request path means:
- The studio stays interactive while a 20-minute video renders.
- Failures are recoverable — the job can retry, be cancelled, or kicked off again with tweaked inputs.
- Long pipelines (Episodes) can span hours without timing out anything.
Real-time updates
While a job is running, its progress appears in two places:
- The Jobs panel — live-streamed output, stage updates, and status chips.
- The panel that initiated it — e.g. a streaming script appears in the editor as the model writes it; a generated image appears in the gallery the moment it's ready.