resolve-edit

resolve-edit is a cursor rule for Cursor from samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp. It costs 38 tokens per session (325 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for editing video timelines in DaVinci Resolve, including cutting, trimming, moving clips, changing pacing, creating variants, and comparing edits. A timeline is the ordered sequence of video and audio clips that becomes the finished piece.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to move or duplicate clips, copy or replace ranges, remove selected ranges, create editorial change lists, compare cuts, and prepare conform or marker-exchange files.
Why use it?
It prevents unsafe partial clip deletions and avoids changing original source media. It also supports comparing project files without opening both edits in Resolve.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it to move or duplicate clips, copy or replace ranges, remove selected ranges, create editorial change lists, compare cuts, and prepare conform or marker-exchange files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp/resolve-edit
About the project

davinci-resolve-mcp is an MCP server that lets AI assistants control DaVinci Resolve Studio through its scripting API, including editing, media organization, rendering, grading, and other project tasks. It is for users who want agents to operate Resolve and inspect media through a local control panel. The catalogue entries support agent workflows for this Resolve integration.

samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp · 2,426 stars · on GitHub

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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp

Made for: Cursor.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for resolve-edit

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp/resolve-edit"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp/resolve-edit.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 38 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 325 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00038 $0.00325
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00162
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00065
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00032

Measured 5d ago against content hash 2e948a332dd0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

resolve-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 5d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.cursor/rules/resolve-edit.mdc · 16 lines

What it actually says

Resolve Timeline Edit work. Apply when: cutting, trimming, pacing, duplicating/moving clips, copying ranges, building variants, tightening a cut, or generating an editorial changelist.

Two servers — compute offline, apply live:

  • Live (running Resolve, davinci-resolve): timeline (duplicate_clips/copy_clips/move_clips, copy_range/overwrite_range/lift_range, copy_properties), edit_engine, timeline_item, timeline_markers
  • Offline (.drp/.drt/.drx + DB, no Resolve, davinci-resolve-advanced): editorial (parse_interchange, turnover_changelist, conform_manifest, marker_roundtrip), drt
  • Key rule: No public razor/split — partial overlaps in lift_range are blocked unless allow_partial_item_delete. Use offline editorial to diff two cuts without opening either. Edits reference existing Media Pool items — never derive source media.

Depth: docs/kernels/timeline-edit-kernel.md + docs/guides/editorial-decision-guide.md. On-demand in any MCP client: the /timeline_edit_workflow slash prompt. Portable skill: resolve-edit in .agents/skills/. Never modify/transcode/derive source media (AGENTS.md).

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. 5d ago Changed 2e948a332dd0
  2. 7d ago First seen · 16 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 3c79538dabbd

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resolve-edit is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp (2,426 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 325 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. 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.