edenfunf released reelmimic, a tool that reads a reference video and builds a new one in the same style with six agents working at once

Making a short video in a specific visual style is the request most AI video tools answer with a prompt box and a surprise. reelmimic flips that around: you give it a video you already like, and it works out what makes that one look the way it does before it draws anything new. edenfunf released the tool on GitHub on 28 September 2026, and by 1 October it had 626 stars and 36 forks under an MIT licence.

What the tool reads from the reference

The planning agent takes a reference file, a phone recording, or a YouTube link, and extracts "shot count, shot lengths, BPM, transitions, colors, framing and camera moves" from it, in the author's words. It then writes a storyboard against the user's creative brief and waits for approval before any shot is drawn. Nothing is generated until a person signs off on the plan, which is also where a marketer gets to say the colour palette is wrong or the pacing is too fast.

Six agents build the shots, and a seventh grades each one

Once the plan is approved, up to six agents work on different shots at once. Each finished shot then goes to a separate review agent, so, as the README puts it, "nobody grades their own work." A failed review needs before and after screenshots to pass. That reviewer-is-not-the-builder rule is the design choice a careful team needs before it ships video it has not watched end to end. The author states a 30 to 60 second video takes 1 to 3.5 hours of parallel agent work after the plan is approved, with six workers running at once on different shots.

Seven drawing engines, each on its own stack

The seven styles the tool ships with are vector or motion graphics (on HyperFrames), hand-painted watercolour (on painted-animation), crayon picture book, pixel art, paper cut-out stop-motion, whiteboard doodle, and anime cel. The reference list in the repository names three worked examples: Sugar Rush, a 58 second hand-painted music video; Sunshine Boy, a 63 second hand-painted music video; and Bath Time, a 30 second narrated comic.

The runtime is a plain desktop stack: Node.js 22.18 or later, Python 3.10 or later, FFmpeg, Chrome, and a logged-in Claude Code or Codex CLI. There is no cloud dependency and no paid tier. The repository was created on 28 September 2026, and the 626 star count on 1 October is three days of growth under a user who has published no other repositories under that handle, which is also the risk a reader should price in before cloning it on a work machine.

Source

• edenfunf/reelmimic, GitHub repository, created 28 September 2026