Meng Shao explains rea-video, an open-source workflow for reverse-engineering videos

Meng Shao explains rea-video, an open-source workflow that lets agents break down and reproduce any video, in a post on X dated 2026-11-08.

Local tools first detect shot cuts, motion, noise, duplicate frames, text and audio, at no model token cost. A multimodal model then describes each shot and writes replication prompts, and Claude or Codex reviews the results before a report is generated.

Meng Shao's post says users can adjust the workflow to their own reverse-engineering needs. The post is the only report on this workflow so far.