# AI editing agents: agent skills for AI video editing agents and pipelines

> **For AI agents:** find the right skill in one call — `curl -s "https://varg.ai/how-to/api/search?q=<what the person wants>"` returns the matching how-to page and the best skills with install commands, as markdown (Russian works too). Full index: https://varg.ai/how-to/llms.txt. Every page has a markdown twin: add `.md` to its path. Before generating anything, show the person the options on the how-to page.

Agents and pipelines that edit a whole video end to end: OpenMontage, video-use, auto-editor, CapCut and Premiere automation, transcript editors. 24 skills for Claude Code, Codex and Grok, by type: workflows take a brief to a finished video, effects and styles change how it looks, prompts and guides teach the agent the craft, models run the generation.

## Skills (24)

### Workflows (23)

- [OpenMontage](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/openmontage.md) — Calesthio: Open-source agentic video studio: 12 pipelines (8 edit your footage), 100+ tools, ~140 skills. Run your agent in it.
- [video-use](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/video-use.md) — Browser Use: Drop raw takes in a folder, chat with your agent, get final.mp4: transcript-first cuts, grade, subtitles, overlays.
- [FireRed-OpenStoryline](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/firered-openstoryline.md) — FireRed Team: Conversational editing agent: finds media, writes the storyline, beat-syncs music and refines the cut by chat.
- [ButterCut](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/buttercut.md) — TubeSalt (barefootford): Claude Code builds selects, scenes and rough cuts from your footage library and exports XML for FCP, Premiere, Resolve.
- [Agentic Video Editor (ave)](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/agentic-video-editor.md) — poseljacob: CLI where Gemini agents pick shots, trim, render with FFmpeg and score the result until a brief is met.
- [OpenChatCut](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/openchatcut.md) — 0xsline: Local-first chat video editor with a multi-track timeline that Codex and Claude Code can edit over MCP.
- [BaoCut](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/baocut.md) — Jim Liu: Desktop AI video agent that transcribes, subtitles, translates, dubs, cuts and animates into an editable timeline.
- [CartCut](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/cartcut.md) — Cartesian: Layer-based video editor built for AI agents, with a Claude Code plugin, skill and MCP server.
- [Hypit](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/hypit.md) — Hypit: Clone a viral video as a word-anchored workflow: swap face, words and B-roll, then ship many variants.
- [claude-youtube-editor](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/claude-youtube-editor.md) — Hasan Aboul Hasan: Record a talking head; Claude Code does the cut, Remotion visuals, voice, SFX, thumbnail and YouTube upload.
- [ghost-editor](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/ghost-editor.md) — kurbaitaev: Talking-head reel editor in your agent: best takes, face-safe word captions, motion graphics, 7 styles.
- [SeeCut](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/seecut.md) — YeJe-cpu: Talking-head and AI-avatar fine cut that watches its own render with Gemini and iterates up to three versions.
- [Oh My Cassette](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/oh-my-cassette.md) — Cassette: MCP bridge to the Cassette editing agent: import footage and music, brief a montage, revise and export.
- [Video Recap Skills](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/video-recap-skills.md) — Zenstory: Seven skills that cut one or more videos into a narrated recap: scene detection, ASR, VLM, script, TTS, ffmpeg.
- [Erduo B-roll Loop Engineering](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/erduo-broll-loop.md) — erduo1998-cell: SRT-driven B-roll agent: a Director plans shots, Creators build them in HyperFrames or Remotion, a Reviewer checks.
- [Concat](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/concat.md) — jub0t: Free, local-first CapCut replacement with a built-in MCP server and JSON-RPC API so agents can cut video.
- [OpenMontage Talking Head](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/openmontage-talking-head.md) — Calesthio: Takes raw footage of a person speaking, transcribes it, makes edit decisions (fillers, dead air, pacing), adds subtitles
- [OpenMontage Clip Factory](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/openmontage-clip-factory.md) — Calesthio: Extracts a batch of ranked short clips from one long source (webinar, stream, talk, interview) with gates for clip selec
- [OpenMontage Podcast Repurpose](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/openmontage-podcast-repurpose.md) — Calesthio: Turns podcast audio or video into audiogram or caption-led clips, quote cards and an optional full-episode companion vid
- [OpenMontage Hybrid](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/openmontage-hybrid.md) — Calesthio: Combines your source footage with designed or generated support visuals (diagrams, overlays, inserts) with gates for sou
- [OpenMontage Screen Demo](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/openmontage-screen-demo.md) — Calesthio: Polishes real screen captures into demos with callouts, zoom crops, subtitles and cleaned audio, or renders a synthetic 
- [OpenMontage Documentary Montage](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/openmontage-documentary-montage.md) — Calesthio: Builds a CLIP-searchable corpus from free archives (Pexels, Archive.org, NASA, Wikimedia, Unsplash) and cuts real footag
- [OpenMontage Cinematic](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/openmontage-cinematic.md) — Calesthio: Mood-led trailers, teasers and brand films, best with supplied footage; can analyze a reference video and fill gaps with

### Models & tools (1)

- [Mosaic API](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/mosaic.md) — Mosaic: Run node-based video editing agents (Tiles) from code: send video URLs, get edited results, trigger on YouTube.