SmartCut (capcut-ai-editor) — guide skill for cuts & pacing

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MCP that reads CapCut auto-captions to cut silences and duplicate takes right inside your CapCut project.

• Type: Guide · Cuts & pacing
• Slug: capcut-smartcut-mcp
• Status: live
• Publisher: mrbuslov (community)
• License: MIT
• Source: https://github.com/mrbuslov/capcut-ai-editor
• Works in: Claude Code, Claude.ai, Any MCP client
• Requires: Python 3.10+, CapCut desktop
• Cost: Free/open source
• Adoption: 123 GitHub stars (GitHub, 2026-10-27)

What it does

Record, import into CapCut and generate auto captions, then ask Claude to 'smart cut' the project. SmartCut uses the caption timing to remove gaps over one second and keeps only the last attempt when a phrase is repeated, writing the changes back to the CapCut project for review. Works locally without API keys; OpenAI is optional for better duplicate detection.

Use when

• clean up a talking-head recording in CapCut
• drop repeated takes automatically
• keep the edit editable in CapCut

Install

• Any MCP client: pip install -e . (inside the cloned repo), then add the venv python to your MCP config

More cuts & pacing skills

• Auto-Editor: CLI that cuts dead space by loudness or motion and exports MP4 or editor timelines; now also an agent skill.
• AutoCut: Edit video in a text editor: Whisper transcribes, you delete lines in Markdown, AutoCut cuts the video.
• 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.