Open-source, local-first conversational AI video editor with a professional multi-track timeline, Agent Skills, MCP integration, and Remotion rendering.
OpenChatCut is an open-source, local-first video editor that combines conversational AI agents with editable projects containing professional multitrack timelines, media, effects, and exports. Creators and developers use it to have agents perform video-editing work while retaining manual control over the project. The catalogue entries provide agent skills and MCP integration for operating the editor.
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Connect an MCP-capable coding agent to OpenChatCut and edit local video projects. Use when the user asks to install, connect, or set up OpenChatCut; inspect or edit an OpenChatCut project; work with its timeline, transcript, captions, media, generation, motion graphics, audio, color, or export tools; or recover from…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Plan AI short films with story, shots, prompts, and continuity.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Use when acquiring or importing media into a OpenChatCut project asset library for video editing or creation, including local/attached videos, user-provided paths, public media URLs, web video/audio/image assets, upload fallback decisions, and deciding between importmedia, downloadmedia, or manual user action.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Use whenever the agent needs to add, create, hand-author, patch, or place Motion Graphic JSX assets in a OpenChatCut project. This is the direct-authoring path: use createmotiongraphicfromcode / editasset / edititem, not motion-graphic-gen or submitmotiongraphic. Covers project/timeline intake, project visual…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Create finished explainer videos from a topic, script, outline, voiceover, product logic, data, technical concept, course material, or reference assets. Use when the user wants narration, motion graphics, stock footage, generated visuals, or mixed visuals to explain an idea.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Use when a OpenChatCut video editing or creation workflow needs export, render, download, share, final delivery, subtitle-file export, render choice, local-only asset handling, or export fallback explanation.
Skill Claude Code
AI image generation via Fal.ai, gpt-image-2, nano-banana, MiniMax image-01, and xAI Grok Imagine. Use when the user wants to generate or create an image / picture / still.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Use when a OpenChatCut tool call fails or returns an unexpected shape.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Cut an imported livestream recording of any genre into evidence-backed, platform-ready clips by combining transcript, visual, audio, interaction, and domain-specific signals. Use for commerce, gaming, talk, interview, education, entertainment, sports, music, IRL, creative, news, or mixed livestream recordings.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Cut one long podcast, interview, course, livestream, or other source video into social-ready shorts, reels, highlights, or clip timelines from existing project media. Use when the user asks to cut a long video into Shorts, Reels, TikToks, Xiaohongshu posts, best moments, highlights, or multiple clips.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Add motion graphics at the right moments without blocking the story. Use when the user wants to enhance talking-head, lecture, tutorial, interview, podcast, or creator videos with motion graphics.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Turn multiple product shots, event footage, travel clips, gameplay moments, UGC/product footage, B-roll, or mixed media into social-ready reels, highlights, recaps, or montage-style short videos from existing project media.
Skill Claude Code
A workflow for analyzing music and using its beats, sections, tempo, mood, genre, or instruments to plan video cuts or photo placements.
Skill Claude Code
Music generation via Mureka, MiniMax, Atlas Cloud, and Sonilo. Use for instrumentals, songs, soundtracks, track/stem generation, covers, or video-conditioned scoring of the finished cut through submitmusic.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
A workflow for making a rough-cut news video from footage such as press conferences, interviews,现场 recordings, or surveillance video.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Use for video editing or video creation work that should be editable in OpenChatCut, even when the user does not explicitly mention OpenChatCut. Covers local/attached video editing, captions/subtitles, transcription, trimming, talking-head cleanup, highlights, B-roll, overlays, generation, export, project/editor…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Turn a product into ad angles, hooks, scenes, and CTA.
Skill Claude Code
OpenChatCut product knowledge — UI layout, editor features, and how generation providers are configured. Use when the user asks about the product interface, how to use a feature, where to find something, or needs GUI guidance for something the agent cannot do directly. Also use as fallback when a task fails and the…
Skill Claude Code
An AI shader generator for WebGL video effects. WebGL is a browser technology for drawing accelerated graphics, and shaders are small programs that control how those graphics look.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
A workflow for creating or improving custom OpenChatCut skills, which are reusable instructions for recurring video-editing tasks.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Break down each shot and turn the analysis into a storyboard reference. Use when the user wants shot-by-shot film analysis, director logic, cinematography breakdown, or a storyboard-style reference from a video.
Skill Claude Code
A guide for editing videos built around people speaking, such as interviews, lectures, tutorials, podcasts, and courses. It focuses on improving spoken content and related presentation elements.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Use when a video/audio task needs OpenChatCut transcription, captions, subtitles, subtitle styling, transcript search, transcript readiness checks, or enabling captions, including local or attached videos where the user asks to add captions/subtitles, transcribe, create bilingual subtitles, clean talking-head speech…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Use when checking whether agent edits are reflected in the OpenChatCut project and editor.
At most 3 mods per repository are shown here, and a mod shipped inside a plugin is left to that plugin's page — the rest are on their repository pages: