video-edit

A command that changes an existing MP4 video according to a written instruction using Grok Imagine.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with a local video file or a video URL to request edits such as changing an object or making the scene more cinematic.
Why use it?
It avoids having to recreate the whole video when you only want to alter parts of an existing clip.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/moore-developers/grok-cli/video-edit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Moore-developers/grok-cli
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 485 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.00485
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00243
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00097
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00049

Measured 2d ago against content hash 053b13003db1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

video-edit scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

docs/commands/video-edit.md · 65 lines

What it actually says

grok-cli video-edit

Purpose

Edit an existing video with Grok Imagine.

This command is separate from video. video handles text-to-video, image-to-video, and reference-image video; video-edit handles editing an existing MP4 video.

Common Usage

grok-cli video-edit --video-url https://example.com/source.mp4 --prompt "Give the woman a silver necklace"

Use a local video file:

grok-cli video-edit --video ./source.mp4 --prompt "Give the woman a silver necklace"

Script or skill usage:

grok-cli video-edit --json --video-url https://example.com/source.mp4 --prompt "Make the scene more cinematic"

Parameters

  • PROMPT: positional edit prompt.
  • --prompt <PROMPT>: explicit script-friendly prompt.
  • --video-url <URL>: source video URL to edit.
  • --video <PATH>: local source video path to edit.
  • --json: use the standard JSON envelope.
  • --auth-file <PATH>: override the OAuth state file path.
  • --model <MODEL>: override the model for this video edit request only.
  • --timeout <SECONDS>: total video polling timeout, default 600; individual HTTP requests still stay within the media request ceiling.

Behavior

  • Default model is grok-imagine-video.
  • The command calls POST /videos/edits and sends video: {"url": ...}.
  • Local videos are encoded as data URIs before being sent as video.url.
  • The command does not send duration, aspect_ratio, or resolution; the edited output inherits the input video properties.
  • It reads request_id from the create response and then polls GET /videos/{request_id} until completion.
  • Successful calls are written to the local usage SQLite database under video usage.

JSON Fields

data contains:

  • provider
  • credential_source
  • model
  • video
  • modality
  • duration
  • extra.request_id

modality is fixed to edit.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 65 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 053b13003db1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

video-edit is a command published in the GitHub repository Moore-developers/grok-cli (52 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 485 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.