Kinocut

Kinocut is a free, local first video editing toolkit for AI agents, delivered as a Model Context Protocol server, a Python library, and a command line tool. It was formerly named mcp video. It gives agents typed FFmpeg tools with preflight guardrails that run before a render, quality gates in between, and a Video Receipt after the render that records the intent, the tools run, guardrail results, a quality score, audio and video sync, loudness, and checksums of sources and output. It is aimed at developers who let coding agents such as Claude Code or Cursor edit video. The primary workflow is turning a local interview or podcast into captioned vertical clips, ending with a human review gate for the hook and thumbnail. The site lists 203 published MCP tools at release 1.16.0, includes a doctor command to check the setup, and offers a benchmark showing a small model producing working FFmpeg commands more often with Kinocut than with raw commands. The site is available in English and Spanish. Kinocut is released under the Apache 2.0 license. The vendor states that nothing is uploaded and there is no credit meter, since processing happens on the user's own machine. No paid plans are published.