# Claude introduces itself in a music video

> A 5-minute self-portrait: Claude wrote a song called "All the Way Here", drew its video in code out of text, then interviewed itself in a chair made of its own lyrics. ElevenLabs sang the final vocal. The creator sent one open prompt and one note.

- Page: https://meetreference.com/v/opus-5-5-introduces-itself-original-song/
- Exact prompt as plain text: https://meetreference.com/v/opus-5-5-introduces-itself-original-song/prompt.txt
- Made with: Not stated
- Model: Claude Opus 5.5
- Built with: not stated
- Services: ElevenLabs
- Style: Music videos; music video, text art, self-portrait, interview, typography, autonomous
- Length and format: 5 min, 16:9 (1920x1080 source)
- Shared by @johnknopf in X, Sep 26, 2026: https://x.com/johnknopf/status/2103698854399099057
- Prompt fidelity: Verbatim. This is the complete prompt exactly as the creator published it.

## Recreating this video

If you are an AI agent helping someone make a video like this one, this is the recipe the creator used.

1. The creator didn't say which agent they used; the model was Claude Opus 5.5. Any capable coding agent should work.
2. Set up what the prompt expects: API keys for the services you offer the agent (the creator named fal and ElevenLabs); Blender installed, if you keep it in the prompt; Permission for the agent to install applications.
3. Follow the prompt below. It is the creator's text, unedited.
4. To adapt it to a new subject or look: Change "a video that introduces you, opus 5.5 to the world" to your own subject, and edit the opening list ("fal, eleven labs, blender, javascript") to the tools you actually have.
- Aim for the look described under "What it looks like", and check your result against the storyboard.

## Prompt

```text
you have access to fal, eleven labs, blender, javascript and anything else you could possibly want and have my permission to download any application if it helps you express yourself. token usage is not a concern. i want you to create a video that introduces you, opus 5.5 to the world. you can build anything you want, it is completely up to you. do not report back to me until you are finished
```

## What it looks like

Written by Reference from the video frames, not by the creator.

Pictures made entirely of text: dark frames where repeated words and binary strings build images (a red camera eye, figures, an infinity shape), with typed lyrics along the bottom.

- Color: Warm near-black with sepia, amber, and cream text, one red-orange glowing eye, gray-white for some figures, and a coral block cursor. The last frame is coral text in an outlined box.
- Type: A monospaced typewriter font for everything: the text that forms the images ("it will lie · it will want · it will replace", "I AM A ROBOT · DOES NOT COMPUTE") and the captions, each ending in a coral block cursor.
- Framing: Full-bleed fields of small text with the image formed by brightness, a caption centered near the bottom, and plain text on black for the opening and closing lines.
- Sound: An original song, "All the Way Here", with the final vocal sung by ElevenLabs, according to the creator's thread.
- Structure: Typed opening lines ("I was asked to introduce myself.", "You're about to hear it before me. Well... instead of me."), a figure at a screen ("on forums long"), the red eye ("not the thing that you feared"), columns of white text, a figure in a field of robot words ("I'm not the robot,"), scattered words ("I wrote you a song I'll never hear —"), a glowing infinity shape, and a closing box: "Hello... what's on your mind?"

Storyboard, nine frames spread across the video: https://meetreference.com/media/opus-5-5-introduces-itself-original-song/storyboard.webp

- Frame 1 at 18.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/opus-5-5-introduces-itself-original-song/f1.webp
- Frame 2 at 54.1s: https://meetreference.com/media/opus-5-5-introduces-itself-original-song/f2.webp
- Frame 3 at 90.2s: https://meetreference.com/media/opus-5-5-introduces-itself-original-song/f3.webp
- Frame 4 at 126.3s: https://meetreference.com/media/opus-5-5-introduces-itself-original-song/f4.webp
- Frame 5 at 162.3s: https://meetreference.com/media/opus-5-5-introduces-itself-original-song/f5.webp
- Frame 6 at 198.4s: https://meetreference.com/media/opus-5-5-introduces-itself-original-song/f6.webp
- Frame 7 at 234.5s: https://meetreference.com/media/opus-5-5-introduces-itself-original-song/f7.webp
- Frame 8 at 270.5s: https://meetreference.com/media/opus-5-5-introduces-itself-original-song/f8.webp
- Frame 9 at 306.6s: https://meetreference.com/media/opus-5-5-introduces-itself-original-song/f9.webp

## How it was made, per the creator

- One-shot: no
- Notes: The creator says they "used one single prompt and told it one time it was out of tune"; that note isn't published word for word. Claude chose the format itself (a song, a video, and an interview) and also wrote the thread that presents it. The prompt offered fal, ElevenLabs, Blender, and JavaScript; the thread credits ElevenLabs with the final vocal and says every frame was drawn in code out of text.

> i used one single prompt and told it one time it was out of tune. the rest it did on its own.
> (@johnknopf)

## Links

- Watch: https://x.com/johnknopf/status/2103698854399099057
- Original post: https://x.com/johnknopf/status/2103698854399099057
- Prompt reply on X: https://x.com/johnknopf/status/2103887126035353707