kimo
Open-source video editor your AI agent drives over MCP
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kimo is a free, MIT-licensed video editor with no GUI. Your coding agent or any MCP client (Codex, Cursor, OpenCode) calls tools to cut, trim, caption, colour grade, keyframe, reframe to 9:16 and export. One ~15 MB CPU-only Rust binary that runs locally on a 2 GB box, and the agent renders frames to check its own work. Built by a college student, would love feedback.
PH · launched Oct 20, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%) · 0 views
Niche: video editing software · 283 launches, 35 in the last 7 days ▼ -15% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Agent / copilot
- Prosumer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
- Open Source
- Developer Tools
- Artificial Intelligence
- GitHub
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Could you build this?
Partial The MCP tool layer and command wrappers are buildable, but a real video editor engine with frame-accurate rendering, colour grading and keyframing needs serious multimedia engineering that vibe coding won't deliver alone.
What it would actually take: Build a Rust core that models a timeline (clips, tracks, keyframes) and exposes each operation as an MCP tool, rendering through FFmpeg bindings or a native codec library in CPU-only mode. Frame-accurate seeking, efficient decoding of large files in a 2 GB memory budget, and correct colour pipelines require multimedia and performance engineering expertise.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 138 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #79 of 139 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 349 days after the earliest competitor.
- mcp-video-editor · github · 2026-10-26 · 74 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- OpenVids · ph · 2026-10-09 · 95 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Clueso MCP · ph · 2026-09-22 · 424 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Kleo · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Geneso · ph · 2026-10-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Klip Studio · ph · 2026-11-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Kimi Work · ph · 2026-06-09 · 182 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Cuthol · ph · 2026-11-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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