Edit videos with coding agents.

Drop raw footage in a folder, chat with Claude Code or Codex, get final.mp4 back. Talking heads, tutorials, montages, interviews. No presets, no timeline.

Cloud-hosted video-use is coming. Upload footage, get the cut back. No local setup.

Claude Code editing a folder of raw takes with video-use: inventory, transcript scan, strategy, then render and self-check

What it does

Cuts filler words
umm, uh, false starts and dead space between takes.
Color grades
Every segment. Warm cinematic, neutral punch, or any ffmpeg chain.
30ms audio fades
At every cut, so you never hear a pop.
Burns subtitles
In your style. 2-word uppercase chunks by default.
Animation overlays
HyperFrames, Remotion, Manim or PIL, one sub-agent per animation.
Checks its own render
Inspects every cut boundary before showing you anything.

The agent reads the video, it never watches it.

Every take becomes a word-level transcript with speakers and audio events, packed into one ~12KB file. The agent pulls a filmstrip and waveform only at decision points. Same idea as giving a browser agent the DOM instead of a screenshot.

Frame dumping: 30,000 frames × 1,500 tokens = 45M tokens.
video-use: 12KB of text + a handful of PNGs.

## C0103  (duration: 43.0s, 8 phrases)
  [002.52-005.36] S0 Ninety percent of what a web agent does is completely wasted.
  [006.08-006.74] S0 We fixed this.

Run it yourself today

Needs ffmpeg and an ElevenLabs key for transcription. Your agent handles the rest.

Paste into Claude Code, Codex, or any agent with a shell

Set up https://github.com/browser-use/video-use for me.

Read install.md first to install this repo, wire up ffmpeg, register the skill with whichever agent you're running under, and set up the ElevenLabs API key - ask me to paste it when you need it. Then read SKILL.md for daily usage, and always read helpers/ because that's where the editing scripts live. After install, don't transcribe anything on your own - just tell me it's ready and wait for me to drop footage into a folder.