BaoCut — workflow skill for AI editing agents

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Desktop AI video agent that transcribes, subtitles, translates, dubs, cuts and animates into an editable timeline.

• Type: Workflow · AI editing agents
• Slug: baocut
• Status: live
• Publisher: Jim Liu (community)
• License: custom (see repo)
• Source: https://github.com/JimLiu/baocut
• Works in: Claude Code, Codex
• Requires: ffmpeg and ffprobe, Codex CLI or Claude Code sign-in
• Cost: Free download (custom license)
• Adoption: 1,559 GitHub stars (GitHub, 2026-10-27)

What it does

A macOS/Windows app by Jim Liu built around one editable video rather than a one-shot MP4: transcripts, translations, subtitle layers, chapters, voice-overs and motion graphics all live in the timeline, and SRT/MP4 are exports. Its agent features run on a signed-in Codex CLI or Claude Code, and external agents can drive it through a desktop CLI entrypoint.

Use when

• subtitle, translate and dub a video and keep editing it
• fix one wrong line without re-rendering everything
• drive an editor from Codex or Claude Code

Install

Not published as a standalone skill yet. Source: https://github.com/JimLiu/baocut

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

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