video-use is an open-source video-editing tool for coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, and Openclaw. It takes raw footage in a folder and produces an edited MP4, with support for removing filler words and dead space, applying FFmpeg color-grading chains, adding short audio fades at cuts, burning customizable subtitles, and generating animation overlays through HyperFrames, Remotion, Manim, or PIL.
Its pipeline transcribes each source with ElevenLabs Scribe, packing word-level timestamps, speaker diarization, and audio events into a Markdown view. The agent reasons over that transcript and requests filmstrip, waveform, and word-label composites from timeline_view only at decision points, rather than processing every video frame as visual context. It then creates an edit decision list, renders the result, evaluates the rendered video at every cut boundary for visual jumps, audio pops, and subtitle problems, and can revise and re-render up to three times.
The tool uses an approval-oriented workflow in which the agent inventories sources, proposes an editing strategy, waits for confirmation, executes the edit, evaluates it, and persists session memory in project.md. It requires FFmpeg and an ElevenLabs API key; yt-dlp is optional for downloading online sources. Outputs are placed in an edit directory next to the source footage.