How AI agents make our Instagram reels

Our Instagram account, @another_systems, posts short explainers about AI, software and data analysis. The first reel went out on October 22, 2026, and on November 1 the account passed 1,000 followers.

AI agents make every reel, from the idea to a video ready to post. They run in Claude Code, Anthropic's AI coding tool, and they research, write, build and check each one. A person watches every finished reel and posts it by hand.

It's built for informative videos like ours, topics, facts and guides told with 2D cards, 3D scenes, an AI voice and captions. It isn't made for animated cartoons or comedy sketches.

Install Claude Code and give it one folder. The folder holds the rules, a brief for each kind of agent, a queue of reel ideas and the code that draws the videos. Everything is plain text, so the agents can read it and you can change it.

Claude Code runs the agents, and five free tools do the heavy work on the laptop. Claude's $20 a month Pro plan is enough to make about 10 to 20 reels a month with no problems.

Give your agent a screen recording of a video in the style you want, from your phone or your computer, as its reference. The guide gives you the method, the rules and every brief, but not our video code. Your agent writes its own from your reference video, so the first reel takes the longest.

One prompt starts a builder agent on Claude Opus. It researches the topic on the makers' own pages and papers, writes a script of up to 10 lines, about 60 seconds, and plans what the screen shows on every line.

Three Claude Sonnet agents review the script before anything is built. One checks every fact against the sources, one reads it as a new viewer, and one checks that every scene will read on a phone.

If you want a say before the build, ask the agent to stop after the reviews. You read the script, approve it or change lines, and only then does it build. Then the builder makes the reel, its cover and its caption, and an auditor checks the frames and the caption. Fix, check again, up to 5 rounds.

Nothing goes out until you watch it. You approve the reel and post it yourself, or ask for changes and the agents redo it. With the optional script check, that makes two places a person steps in.

Each change also becomes a proposed fix to the playbook, the list of rules every agent reads. When we said the gaps between some cards looked uneven, the agent fixed that reel and proposed a rule that every gap uses the same spacing. Every reel after it started with that rule. The playbook is yours to shape, so the reels end up with your taste, not the agent's.

For now this step is by hand. Open the reel's insights in the Instagram app and give the agent the numbers, like views and how many people leave in the first 3 seconds. A screenshot is enough. They go in one table, and the next topics come from it.

Ours said two things. Most viewers leave in the first 3 to 5 seconds, so the first frame now shows something famous with the first words already on screen. And everyday "how does it work" topics kept 21 to 23% of viewers at 30 seconds, about twice our AI news reels. The same numbers show which reels are worth putting ads on.