Let Claude Code or Codex edit raw footage

With the video-use repo, the agent cuts filler words and dead air, adds subtitles, renders and checks its own cuts.

by The Startup Ideas Podcast (SIP) 🧃3 Sep 2026

Prompt for your agent

Goal: Automate the edits I make on every video.
Setup: agents used in source: Claude, Codex; tools/MCPs stated: FFmpeg.
Steps:
1. Give the setup prompt to Claude Code with shell access; let it read install.md, install the repo, connect FFmpeg and register the skill.
2. Put raw footage in a folder and ask the agent to edit: remove filler words, cut dead space, add subtitles, render.
3. Have it check its own cut points.
4. Start with one format (e.g. a founder Loom into a 60s launch video, or 3 clips from one podcast) before scaling.
Rules: ask me before anything irreversible (sending, posting, paying, deleting); don’t invent data, results or tools I haven’t given you; tell me what you couldn’t verify.
Based on: The Startup Ideas Podcast (SIP) 🧃 — https://x.com/startupideaspod/status/2095550256905847147

Steps are from the source. Includes a “Based on” credit line.

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Agents, models and tools only what the source states

Agents
Claude Codex
Tools
  • FFmpeg

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