AutoCut — guide skill for cuts & pacing

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Edit video in a text editor: Whisper transcribes, you delete lines in Markdown, AutoCut cuts the video.

• Type: Guide · Cuts & pacing
• Slug: autocut
• Status: live
• Publisher: Mu Li (community)
• License: Apache-2.0
• Source: https://github.com/mli/autocut
• Works in: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor
• Cost: Free/open source
• Adoption: 7,841 GitHub stars (GitHub, 2026-10-27)

What it does

Mu Li's tool for transcript-based editing. It transcribes a video with Whisper into SRT and Markdown, you (or an agent) select the sentences to keep, and AutoCut renders the cut. A simple, deterministic pattern agents can drive by editing a text file.

Use when

• cut a talk or lecture by its transcript
• keep only chosen sentences
• batch-subtitle a folder of videos

Install

• Claude Code: pip install autocut-sub

More cuts & pacing skills

• SmartCut (capcut-ai-editor): MCP that reads CapCut auto-captions to cut silences and duplicate takes right inside your CapCut project.
• Auto-Editor: CLI that cuts dead space by loudness or motion and exports MP4 or editor timelines; now also an agent skill.
• Cut Video: Claude Code skill that tightens long recordings with forced-aligned cuts, keeping laughs and comedic pauses.
• Videogrep: Search spoken words across videos and auto-build supercuts of every match.
• PySceneDetect: Find cuts, fades and scene changes in a video, then split it or export scene lists for the edit.
• video-editing-skill (Bash + FFmpeg): Pure Bash skill for OpenClaw, Claude Code and Codex: trim, jump cut, captions, text overlay, speed.