Agentic Video Editor (ave) — workflow skill for AI editing agents
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CLI where Gemini agents pick shots, trim, render with FFmpeg and score the result until a brief is met.
- Type: Workflow · AI editing agents
- Slug:
agentic-video-editor - Status: live
- Publisher: poseljacob (community)
- License: MIT
- Source: https://github.com/poseljacob/agentic-video-editor
- Works in: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor
- Requires: Python 3.11+, ffmpeg, Google AI (Gemini) API key
- Cost: Free/open source
- Adoption: 506 GitHub stars (GitHub, 2026-10-27)
What it does
A command-line editor that turns a folder of raw clips plus a creative brief into an ad. A Director agent searches a shot index and writes an EditPlan, a Trim Refiner tightens boundaries, an Editor renders it with FFmpeg/MoviePy and a Reviewer scores adherence, pacing and quality, sending feedback back to the Director when the score is under a threshold. Pipelines and ad structures are YAML files you can change.
Use when
- cut UGC or DTC ads from raw footage
- batch ad variants from one brief
- learn a director/reviewer loop you can fork
Install
- Claude Code:
git clone https://github.com/poseljacob/agentic-video-editor.git && cd agentic-video-editor && pip install -e ".[dev]"
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.
- OpenChatCut: Local-first chat video editor with a multi-track timeline that Codex and Claude Code can edit over MCP.
- 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