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Developers

Field notes and how-tos on developers — every one tied to something you can do in CoreReflex today.

14 articles in Developers

AI Video API: Generate Film From One Sentence

Generate finished, graded films from a sentence with the CoreReflex AI video API, agentic Director, quality-gated shots, and deterministic renders.

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CoreReflex API Quickstart for Developers

A developer quickstart for the CoreReflex API: get an API key, make your first request, and turn a text prompt into a rendered cut in just a few calls.

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API Keys: Create, Scope, and Rotate Safely

How to create, scope, and rotate CoreReflex API keys, authenticate requests securely, limit blast radius, and keep your generation pipeline locked down.

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API Credits and Cost Control Explained

Understand CoreReflex API credits and cost control: planning, scoring, and editing are free; only generation spends credits, so you can budget renders precisely.

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Polling Render Job Status via the API

Kick off a render and poll its status via the CoreReflex API, claim, render, upload, asset row, with automatic retries and a dead-letter queue for failures.

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The JSON Engine: Edit Video as Data

CoreReflex exposes a programmable JSON engine over editor state, query and command your timeline as structured data and get structured results back, headless.

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Programmatic Editor Control With JSON

Drive the CoreReflex timeline with JSON commands, add clips, trim, grade, and caption over editor state programmatically, then read structured results back.

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Camera Moves in the JSON Shot Spec

Define camera moves once in the JSON shot spec and CoreReflex routes them two ways, a prompt clause for Veo and a structured camera_control object for Kling.

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CoreReflex SDK Quickstart and First Render

Install the CoreReflex SDK, authenticate with an API key, and ship your first render in minutes, typed calls over the JSON engine and generation endpoints.

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Build an Autonomous Video Agent on MCP

Wire an AI agent to CoreReflex over MCP and Autopilot so it generates, scores, and renders video on a schedule, hands-off creative your stack can trigger.

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REST API vs MCP Server: Which to Use?

REST API or MCP server? Compare the two ways to drive CoreReflex, direct HTTP calls for pipelines, MCP tools for AI agents, and when to choose each one.

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Batch API: Generate Video at Scale

Use the CoreReflex batch API to generate hundreds of assets in one pass, submit a manifest, let the queue work, and pull finished, quality-gated results.

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Context Cache: Cut Latency and Token Cost

How the CoreReflex context cache reuses stable prompt context across calls to cut latency and token cost on repeated, high-volume generation workloads.

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Eval API: Score Outputs Programmatically

Run programmatic evals over CoreReflex outputs, score generations against your own checks, catch regressions, and gate releases before anything ships.

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