diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
index f342f4c..6be628c 100644
--- a/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -14,8 +14,12 @@ pip install -r backend/requirements.txt
 # Test MiniMax API connectivity
 python backend/test_minimax.py
 
+# Docker
+docker compose up  # requires .env with MINIMAX_API_KEY
+
 # Required system dependency
-# ffmpeg must be installed (brew install ffmpeg)
+# ffmpeg must be installed (brew install ffmpeg / apt install ffmpeg libass-dev)
+# libass is needed for subtitle burn-in; videos still work without it
 ```
 
 No build step, no linting, no test suite. Frontend is a single HTML file served via FastAPI StaticFiles.
@@ -38,6 +42,12 @@ Pipeline stages (sequential):
 
 **Key data flow:** Each agent's `run()` returns structured data consumed by the next agent. Director outputs `{title, style, total_duration, shots[]}`. Script enriches each shot with `video_prompt` (optimized for Hailuo), polished `narration`, and `subtitle`. Visual/Voice/Music produce file paths. Editor composites everything via ffmpeg subprocess calls.
 
+**Parallelism model:** `pipeline.py` runs Visual, Voice, Music in a `ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=3)`. Visual agent internally uses another `ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=3)` to generate individual shots concurrently. Voice generates shots sequentially within its thread.
+
+**Hailuo video generation is async (3-step):** `visual.py` must POST to create a task -> poll `query/video_generation` every 10s (up to 5 min timeout) -> download via `files/retrieve`. Never try to get video results directly from the creation call.
+
+**Shared HTTP session:** `config.py` creates a single `api_session` (requests.Session) with auth headers and 120s default timeout. All agents import and use this session. If you need different timeout for a specific call, pass `timeout=` to the individual request, not to the session.
+
 **Job lifecycle:** `main.py` stores jobs in an in-memory dict. Pipeline runs in `run_in_executor` (background thread). Progress events accumulate in `jobs[job_id]["events"]` list, polled by SSE endpoint every 1s.
 
 **Frontend-backend coupling:** Frontend JS references stages by name (`director`, `script`, `visual`, `voice`, `music`, `editor`) in `stageMap` to highlight corresponding UI cards. These stage names must match `pipeline.py` emit calls.
@@ -48,8 +58,9 @@ Pipeline stages (sequential):
 - All MiniMax API calls must check `data["base_resp"]["status_code"] != 0` before accessing response payload -- API returns HTTP 200 even on business errors (insufficient balance, rate limit, etc.)
 - LLM agents (director, script) strip markdown code fences from responses before JSON parsing
 - Frontend uses relative API paths (`/api/...`). FastAPI `app.mount("/", StaticFiles(...))` must be registered after all API routes
-- Generated media files go to `backend/output/` (gitignored). Config auto-creates this directory on import.
+- Generated media files go to `backend/output/` (gitignored). Config auto-creates this directory on import
 - Environment: single `.env` file at project root with `MINIMAX_API_KEY`
+- Editor agent uses `-t` (not `-shortest`) to set output duration, preventing early video truncation
 
 ## Mistakes Log