Open-Source Tool Lets AI Agents Edit Videos Through Simple Chat Commands

A new open-source tool called video-use lets AI agents like Claude Code edit videos through simple chat commands, automating professional tasks like cutting filler words, color grading, and burning subtitles by reading footage through a lightweight 12KB text-and-PNG system rather than processing millions of raw video tokens.

• video-use is a fully open-source tool that allows users to edit videos using AI coding agents like Claude Code by simply dropping raw footage into a folder and chatting with the agent to receive a finished final.mp4.
• The tool automates professional editing tasks including cutting filler words, auto color grading, adding 30ms audio fades, burning subtitles, generating animation overlays via multiple frameworks, and self-evaluating rendered output at every cut boundary.
• Rather than processing raw video frames, the system reads video through a two-layer approach combining word-level audio transcripts and on-demand visual composites, keeping context to roughly 12KB of text plus a handful of PNGs instead of millions of tokens.