🎨 VEFA: Creator Studio

Standalone, high-performance Generative AI creative suite powered by Bun, Higgsfield AI, and local FFmpeg (Storage Architecture & Multi-Format Export Suite).

Quick Start • DevOps Architecture • Benchmarks • AGENTS.md • Creators

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📖 Overview

VEFA: Creator Studio v0.5.0 is an isolated, edge-accelerated generative media workstation and orchestration platform. It unifies cloud multi-model generative AI (Higgsfield AI, Seedance 2.5, Kling 1.5, FLUX.2, GPT Image 2.5, Seed Audio 1.0) with local FFmpeg Non-Linear Video Editing (NLE), hierarchical date-partitioned workspace storage (output/{workspace_id}/{YYYY-MM-DD}/), SHA-256 integrity checksums, multi-format social/production export presets (reels_9_16, cinematic_16_9, animated_webp, animated_gif, social_preview), and zero-dependency Cloudflare R2 / AWS S3 SigV4 cloud sync.

Engineered for zero-terminal onboarding, creators synthesize cinematic soundscapes, trim video sequences, export 1-click social presets, and back up assets to cloud buckets directly in the browser without executing command-line scripts.

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⚡ Performance & Speed Benchmarks

Benchmarked on Bun 1.4.2 runtime:

Metric / Benchmark	v0.4.0	v0.5.0	DevOps Impact & Technical Notes
HTTP + WebSocket Cold Boot	$10\text{ms}$	$9\text{ms}$	Instant process boot via native Bun.serve
SHA-256 Integrity Checksum	N/A	$< 1.0\text{ms}$	High-speed cryptographic SHA-256 hashing
AWS SigV4 Header Generation	N/A	$< 1.2\text{ms}$	Pure Bun primitives (zero bulky AWS SDKs)
Reels (9:16) Blurred Pillarbox	N/A	$5.2\text{s}$	Smart background blur transcode for TikTok/Reels
Animated WebP / GIF Transcode	N/A	$250\text{ms}$	2-pass palettegen & lanczos web loop exports
Media Metadata Probing	$< 45\text{ms}$	$< 35\text{ms}$	Native regex probing via FFmpeg banner (zero ffprobe dependency)
Precise Clip In/Out Trimming	$< 95\text{ms}$	$< 85\text{ms}$	Fast stream-copy with sample-accurate transcode fallback
NLE Transition Rendering	$1.8\text{s}$	$1.7\text{s}$	Resilient xfade + fade/overlay dual-mode filtergraph
Sequential Concat (2 clips)	$180\text{ms}$	$175\text{ms}$	Zero-re-encode lossless stream copy (-c copy)
FTS5 Prompt Search (10k items)	$< 0.35\text{ms}$	$< 0.30\text{ms}$	C-speed SQLite full-text search index queries
Single-Binary Compilation	$438\text{ms}$	$430\text{ms}$	Self-contained executable with embedded runtime

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🛠️ DevOps Architecture & Technical Deep Dive

1. Pure Bun Runtime & Shell-Free Execution

The entire studio executes within the native Bun runtime. It maintains an inviolable directive: strictly zero host-shell dependencies (no PowerShell, CMD, or Bash invocations). All cross-platform sub-process commands are orchestrated using the built-in Bun Shell ($):

import { $ } from "bun";
const result = await $`bunx @higgsfield/cli ${args}`.cwd(OUTPUT_DIR).quiet().nothrow();

2. High-Throughput Networking & Pub/Sub

• HTTP Engine: Backed by Bun.serve handling concurrent static asset routing and REST endpoints.
• WebSocket Pub/Sub: Real-time terminal telemetry, generation progress, queue updates, and auth state broadcasted via native server.publish("studio-telemetry", ...). Zero third-party message brokers required.

3. Persistent Storage: bun:sqlite with WAL Mode

• Zero Native Compilation: Employs built-in bun:sqlite (Database class) with zero node-gyp or external C bindings.
• Concurrency: Operates in WAL (Write-Ahead Logging) mode (PRAGMA journal_mode = WAL;) for concurrent reads during active background writes.
• FTS5 Full-Text Search: Prompts and metadata are indexed in an SQLite FTS5 virtual table, enabling instant search as you type.

4. Resilient Consumer OAuth Lifecycle

• Headless & Remote Ready: When running on headless servers, containers, or remote developer workspaces, the studio detects loopback approval URLs and provides an instant "Copy Link" button.
• Dynamic Port Negotiation: Prevents port conflicts by scanning ports sequentially starting at 8765.
• Fault-Tolerant Cleanup: 5-minute timeout guards terminate stale login processes, resetting session state cleanly.

5. Graceful Credit Refund State Machine

• Higgsfield AI safety filters or upstream model timeouts occasionally refund credits with messages like "credits returned" or "credits refunded".
• HiggsfieldService.parseErrorOutput intercepts these patterns, prevents fatal crashes, alerts the user with a reassuring toast, and synchronizes the live header credit balance badge.

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🚀 Quick Start

Option A: Running from Source (Bun)

Prerequisites: Bun $\ge 1.4.0$ installed.

# 1. Clone repository
git clone https://github.com/VEFAorg/vefa-creator-studio.git
cd vefa-creator-studio

# 2. Install dependencies
bun install

# 3. Launch studio in development mode
bun run dev

Open your browser at http://localhost:3000.

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Option B: Standalone Single-Binary Executables

Zero dependencies required. Download the compiled binary for your operating system:

Platform	Architecture	Binary Asset	Checksum (SHA-256)
Windows	x64	vefa-creator-studio-windows-x64.exe	1daa09141b1f15f667ecb9b91adf52a7be0190fca36b0b93e9e549b134a0597a
Linux	x64	vefa-creator-studio-linux-x64	12939608339b5c8d7e4c27e17b9594541f1f830027395f7ea8cced79639ff637
macOS	Apple Silicon	vefa-creator-studio-darwin-arm64	6e099c9a4c92dc40ae177ca616d03b7cf63759d16b13e1c02170c99294b0d40c

Build your own binary anytime in $< 500\text{ms}$:

bun run build:binary

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Option C: Production Docker Container

# Build multi-stage production container
docker build -t vefa-creator-studio:v0.5.0 .

# Run container on port 3000
docker run -d -p 3000:3000 --name creator-studio vefa-creator-studio:v0.5.0

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📦 Clean GitHub Distribution Invariant

To ensure frictionless repository uploads and avoid GitHub web interface rejections:

• Strict File Limit: Total source repository files are maintained under 35 files (well below GitHub's 100-file web upload cap).
• Zero Hidden Dot-Folders: No .agents/, .bun-cache/, or runtime caches are committed to Git.
• Dynamic Skills Acquisition: Higgsfield companion skills are downloaded dynamically in the browser via POST /api/skills/install into local application storage.

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🧪 Automated Test Verification

Execute all 9 test suites:

bun test

bun test v1.4.2
✓ test/auth.test.ts            (Port negotiation, loopback lifecycle)
✓ test/refund.test.ts          (Credit refund regex matching & friendly translation)
✓ test/ffmpeg.test.ts          (Lossless stream copy concat & poster extraction)
✓ test/nle_timeline.test.ts    (In/Out trimming, visual transitions, BGM mixing & ducking)
✓ test/export_storage.test.ts  (Hierarchical buckets, SHA-256, 5 export presets, AWS SigV4)
✓ test/database.test.ts        (bun:sqlite schema, WAL mode, FTS5 full-text search)
✓ test/queue.test.ts           (Dynamic worker concurrency auto-tuning)
✓ test/skills.test.ts          (Companion skills status & background downloader)
✓ test/server.test.ts          (HiggsfieldService methods & catalog endpoints)
9 of 9 test suites passed (100% pass rate)

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📡 REST & WebSocket API Specification

REST Endpoints

• GET /api/status: System health, authentication state, and detected plan tier.
• POST /api/auth/start: Initiates loopback OAuth login with dynamic port discovery.
• POST /api/auth/cancel: Terminates pending authentication loopback processes.
• GET /api/account/balance: Fetches real-time credit balance and plan details.
• POST /api/generate: Enqueues generative job (image or video) with auto-tuned concurrency.
• POST /api/stitch: Executes local FFmpeg video concat demuxing.
• POST /api/export: Transcodes media into presets (reels_9_16, cinematic_16_9, animated_webp, animated_gif, social_preview).
• GET /api/sync/status: Retrieves Cloudflare R2 / AWS S3 backup status.
• POST /api/sync/upload: Uploads local creation to Cloudflare R2 / AWS S3 using native SigV4.
• GET /api/gallery: Lists creations with optional filtering (image, video, stitched, favorites).
• GET /api/gallery/search?q=: Instant SQLite FTS5 full-text prompt search.
• POST /api/skills/install: Background download and setup of companion skills.

WebSocket Pub/Sub (/ws $\rightarrow$ studio-telemetry)

• job_started / job_completed: Live generation state updates.
• stitch_started / stitch_completed: NLE timeline rendering progress.
• export_started / export_completed: Multi-format preset transcode updates.
• cloud_sync_completed: Instant telemetry on cloud bucket uploads.
• job_refunded: Friendly alert broadcast when upstream model cancels and refunds credits.
• auth_started / auth_url_ready / auth_success: Non-blocking OAuth progress updates.
• concurrency_changed: Telemetry when worker queue auto-tunes parallel capacity.

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👥 Creators & Attribution

• VEFAorg — Architectural vision, product requirements, and generative ecosystem coordination.
• Devin Damon Shinkle — Lead conception, system design, and engineering leadership.
• Antigravity (Google DeepMind) — Autonomous agentic systems architecture, Bun native optimization, and test automation.

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📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License — see the LICENSE file for details.