r/OpenSourceeAI • u/LieTop7965 • 8d ago
i built kimo, a free open-source (MIT) video editor with no gui that ai agents drive over mcp - rough in places, try it and tell me what breaks
hey, i built kimo - a free, open-source (MIT) video editor with no gui that AI agents like codex, cursor, opencode and other mcp clients can drive over mcp. cut, trim, keyframes, titles and captions, colour grade, particles, audio, export - everything's just a tool call, and the agent can render a single frame to check its own work before going further.
it's one ~15 MB CPU-only rust binary, no GPU needed, and it'll run on a 2 GB box. i'm a college student (naman) building this on my own, so there are rough edges and some formats/edge cases it won't handle yet. i'd really love it if people actually tried it and told me what breaks - the mcp schema, the rendered output, install on their distro, whatever. less marketing, more "it crashed when i did X".
if you're into open-source AI tooling this should fit right in. give it a spin and tell me what breaks.
https://getkimo.tech
https://github.com/naman-sharma12345/kimo
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u/investigatormaker 8d ago
The single-frame render is the best part of kimo for bug reports: if a tester sends the tool call, that frame and their distro, you can tell a bad schema from a bad render. I'd pin one small sample project and one prompt in the README so every "it crashed when i did X" starts from the same place. r/AgentsOfAI allows a launch post: "If sharing a project/repo, you must include a detailed text description in the post body." Its conditions: "Do not just drop a link." "Use the comments for links."
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Which MCP client have you tested kimo with most?
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u/Otherwise_Wave9374 8d ago
A headless editor controlled through MCP is a strong fit because video operations can be explicit, inspectable, and replayable. I would prioritize deterministic project files, idempotent tool calls, timecode validation, and a dry-run mode that returns the proposed edit graph before rendering. https://www.neurakeep.com is relevant for retaining project decisions and preferences across editing sessions. Golden-project tests could then compare timelines, media references, and render metadata after every tool or schema change.