OpenChatCut — workflow skill for AI editing agents

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Local-first chat video editor with a multi-track timeline that Codex and Claude Code can edit over MCP.

• Type: Workflow · AI editing agents
• Slug: openchatcut
• Status: live
• Publisher: 0xsline (community)
• License: AGPL-3.0
• Source: https://github.com/0xsline/OpenChatCut
• Works in: Claude Code, Codex, Any MCP client
• Requires: Node.js, local OpenChatCut app running
• Cost: Free/open source (AGPL); paid Pro edition
• Adoption: 2,731 GitHub stars (GitHub, 2026-10-27)

What it does

An open-source alternative to ChatCut: a desktop/web editor with a professional multi-track timeline, a built-in agent, Agent Skills and an MCP endpoint, rendered with Remotion. Codex or Claude Code can read, edit and export real projects that stay fully editable by hand. A paid Pro desktop edition exists.

Use when

• let your agent edit a project you can still fix by hand
• chat-edit on a real multi-track timeline
• keep footage local

Install

• Claude Code: npx skills add 0xsline/OpenChatCut
• Any MCP client: claude mcp add --transport http openchatcut http://localhost:5199/api/external-mcp/mcp

More AI editing agents skills

• OpenMontage: Open-source agentic video studio: 12 pipelines (8 edit your footage), 100+ tools, ~140 skills. Run your agent in it.
• video-use: Drop raw takes in a folder, chat with your agent, get final.mp4: transcript-first cuts, grade, subtitles, overlays.
• FireRed-OpenStoryline: Conversational editing agent: finds media, writes the storyline, beat-syncs music and refines the cut by chat.
• ButterCut: Claude Code builds selects, scenes and rough cuts from your footage library and exports XML for FCP, Premiere, Resolve.
• Agentic Video Editor (ave): CLI where Gemini agents pick shots, trim, render with FFmpeg and score the result until a brief is met.
• BaoCut: Desktop AI video agent that transcribes, subtitles, translates, dubs, cuts and animates into an editable timeline.

Run the generation on varg

varg is one API key for the models these skills drive — Seedance 2.5, Kling 4, Veo 3.1, Wan 3, Nano Banana 2.1, GPT Image 2.5, ElevenLabs v4 and 200+ more — billed in credits, with a cost estimate before anything runs.

• Claude Code: claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg (skill + hosted MCP)
• Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw: npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai -a <agent> -y
• Grok and any agent that reads SKILL.md: npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai, or point it at the skill's SKILL.md
• Claude.ai, ChatGPT, any MCP client: connect https://mcp.varg.ai/mcp
• API key: https://varg.ai/dashboard/api · Model specs: https://varg.ai/models/llms.txt