Zero Touch Content Engine

One git push. Claude writes it. ElevenLabs narrates it. The world hears about it.

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What If Every Git Push Marketed Itself?

Every developer ships meaningful work. Almost none of them have time to tell anyone about it. Writing a blog post, drafting LinkedIn copy, recording a demo, narrating it, publishing it — that's 45+ minutes of manual work per feature. Most of it never happens.

Zero Touch Content Engine closes that gap entirely.

Vibe Shipping

Vibe coding changed how developers build — describe intent, AI executes.

This is vibe shipping. You build, AI broadcasts.

Your repo now has a publicist. Every commit message becomes a brief. Claude infers the creative direction, the tone, the format — and ships the story while you're still in your terminal. You never open a content tool. You never write a caption. The code ships itself.

What It Does

Push one commit. In under 3 minutes, Zero Touch Content Engine automatically:

  • Generates a blog post, LinkedIn copy, Twitter thread, and release notes using Claude via the GitLab AI Gateway
  • Narrates the long-form copy into an MP3 using ElevenLabs
  • Records and renders a cinematic demo video with Puppeteer + FFmpeg — zoom in, pan through the UI, zoom out
  • Publishes the article to Dev.to automatically
  • Posts an MR comment back to the GitLab commit with links to published content
  • Packages everything as a downloadable CI artifact — 6 files, one per platform, ready to distribute anywhere

Zero configuration after initial setup. Zero human involvement per run.

How It Works

A push to the demo repo fires a GitLab pipeline trigger. The Zero Touch pipeline spins up a node:20-bullseye-slim container, installs Chromium and FFmpeg, then runs node src/index.js.

The workflow runs 6 sequential steps:

  1. Resolves the content topic from the commit message
  2. Calls Claude via the GitLab AI Gateway — structured JSON output with 7 content types
  3. Narrates the long-form copy via ElevenLabs (Asher voice)
  4. Records a cinematic demo video via Puppeteer with CSS transform zoom choreography, deviceScaleFactor: 1, --force-device-scale-factor=1
  5. Merges audio + video via FFmpeg → final MP4
  6. Publishes to Dev.to and posts an MR comment to the GitLab commit

All output lands in CI artifacts: output/content-kit/, output/video/, output/audio/.

Anthropic + GitLab Bonus Track ✓

Claude routes exclusively through the GitLab AI Gateway via injectGatewayToken: true in agent-config.yml. No direct API key is used in CI. Every content generation call — blog post, LinkedIn copy, Twitter thread, release notes, MR comment, voiceover script — runs through the gateway. This is native Anthropic + GitLab integration, not bolted on. Visible in the CI log: "Claude: using Anthropic SDK via GitLab AI Gateway configuration".

Most Impactful ✓

This directly addresses the AI paradox bottleneck the hackathon was designed to solve — the gap between shipping software and communicating its value. Every developer, every team, every ope

Most Technically Impressive ✓

The recording pipeline alone demonstrates significant technical depth: headless Chromium via Puppeteer with --force-device-scale-factor=1 and deviceScaleFactor: 1 to lock CSS pixels to physical pixels for precise 1280×720 output, CSS transform zoom choreography animating document.documentElement scale via cubic-bezier easing, puppeteer-screen-recorder capturing at 25fps via Chrome DevTools Protocol, and fluent-ffmpeg merging the ElevenLabs audio track into the final MP4 — all running inside a GitLab CI container that installs Chromium and FFmpeg from apt on every run. The full stack spans 6 external APIs coordinated in a single deterministic workflow, built and debugged solo in under 1 week.

Easiest to Use ✓

Zero configuration after initial setup. No dashboards, no manual steps, no decisions per run. Add 5 CI/CD variables once, then every push from that point forward generates and publishes a complete content kit automatically. The entire interface is git push.

Built With

  • anthropic-claude
  • ci/cd
  • dev.to-api
  • elevenlabs
  • ffmpeg
  • gitlab
  • gitlab-duo
  • node.js
  • puppeteer
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