6.0.0 — Release Notes
Changelog for Agnes Video Generator: new features, improvements and bug fixes for every release.
What's New
Manual Mode (Human-in-the-Loop Checkpoints)
- Manual Mode pauses your pipeline at the checkpoints you choose, so you can confirm, modify, or regenerate each intermediate artifact before continuing — "auto for vibe, manual for precise output."
- Checkpoint pausing — the pipeline stops at a checkpoint after the artifacts are produced, waits for your action, and continues from the last confirmed stage.
- Fine-grained pause points (creative) — up to 10 stages: image analysis, story, script & narration, character reference, end-frame prompts, end-frame generation, videos, audio, subtitle, and final composite.
- Standard pause points (manuscript / poetry / anchor) — 6 stages: scenes, references, videos, audio, subtitle, and final.
- Pre-filled default pause points — filled in automatically per task type at creation (editable; unchecked checkpoints pass through automatically).
- Not supported — simple (single-shot) video and simple image tasks only show the artifact list on completion.
Four Ways to Refine Artifacts
- At each paused checkpoint you can pick any of these ways to handle the current artifacts:
- 🤖 AI-assisted editing — describe your change (e.g. "make scene 2 more cinematic") and the built-in model rewrites the artifact; review the diff before applying.
- ✏️ Edit locally — copy the artifact path and edit the file directly (JSON / SRT / images / videos), then click "modified, continue".
- 🤝 External Agent — copy a ready-made collaboration prompt and hand the artifact to a more capable local Agent (e.g. opencode / CodeBuddy CLI / ffmpeg / PIL), then fill the result back in.
- 💻 Online editing — edit text artifacts (script / narration / subtitles) in an in-page dialog with side-by-side comparison against the original.
Artifact-Level Dependency Graph (Rerun Only What Changed)
- After any modification, the system computes affected downstream artifacts precisely and reruns only those — the rest are kept untouched:
- Edit narration → reruns audio / subtitle / final only.
- Edit scene descriptions → reruns reference images / videos / final only.
- A "before-modification" prompt lists exactly which artifacts will be regenerated vs. retained.
Switch Between Auto and Manual Anytime
- Switch an auto task to manual while running — it pauses at the next safe checkpoint.
- Switch a manual task back to auto while paused — pause points are cleared and it runs straight to completion.
Other Features & Improvements
- Dedicated task progress page — a focused, full-page progress view with step timeline and live status.
- Task detail page — opens in a new tab with official-site links and support guidance.
- Project card pinning — pin a task card to the top of the list; artifact previews auto-expand.
- "Continue without changes" button at every pause point — skip review on any channel.
- Bilingual startup scripts — prompts adapt to the system locale.
- Full 22-language i18n — missing translations completed, plus a new language-completeness checker used as a release regression gate and a language switcher in the task progress header.
Refactoring & Optimizations
- Unified checkpoint mechanism across pipelines — the same MultiScenePipeline checkpoint system now powers creative, manuscript, poetry, and anchor tasks, with per-type artifact matrices.
- Standalone artifact dependency graph —
core/dependency_graph.pyis a pure, declarative edge-table module (product-level + parameter-level) shared by impact prediction, approve handling, and frontend highlighting; fully unit-tested. - Standardized artifact manifests — per-checkpoint
checkpoint.jsonlists and task-directoryMANIFEST.mdmake every intermediate artifact discoverable, readable, and refillable. - Resume skips completed scene-building steps — avoids duplicate LLM calls when Creative / Anchor / Poetry tasks resume.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an un-clickable "open edit window" button caused by checkpoint artifact field-name mismatch.
- Fixed multi-PID port-in-use hints so the kill command is emitted as a single copyable line.
- Progress control-flow fixes — pause UI cleared immediately after resume, and queued/running tasks now show real-time progress messages.
- Character reference image generation moved into the references stage for correct ordering.
- Manual-mode UI polish — visible disabled states, artifact filter compatibility, auto-collapse of earlier stages, and resume for inactive unfinished tasks.
- Learn more about Manual Mode: [Manual Mode Guide](https://video.lichuanyang.top/guides/manual-mode) and the in-repo
docs/public/manual_mode_guide.md.
About Agnes Video Generator
A completely free, open-source AI video generator: turn text into multi-scene AI videos with narration and subtitles.
- Free and open source — no payment, no high-end GPU required
- Text-to-video, image-to-video, digital anchor and image generation
- Powered by free Agnes AI models, rendered entirely in the cloud
- Runs via Web UI, Docker or npm, and supports self-hosting
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