Editing with AI Agents

Beta only. Agents are in Auto-Editor 6.6.0-beta.1 and later, not yet in the regular release. To get it, tick Receive beta updates in Preferences and choose Check for Updates, or download the beta for macOS, Windows or Windows on ARM.

Auto-Editor can be driven by an AI agent such as Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor or Codex. The agent works in the window you have open: its cuts appear on your timeline as it makes them, and you can undo any of them or take over at any point.

Turn it on

Open Preferences and tick Allow AI agents to control Auto-Editor. It is off until you do. While it is on, programs running as you on this computer can edit and export through the app; nothing is reachable from the network or by other users.

Connect your agent

Auto-Editor speaks the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Preferences shows the command your agent should run, with a button to copy it. For Claude Code, use Copy for Claude Code and paste the line into a terminal:

claude mcp add auto-editor -- "/Applications/Auto-Editor.app/Contents/MacOS/Auto-Editor" --mcp

For other agents, add an MCP server whose command is that path (on Windows, the installed .exe that Preferences shows) and whose only argument is --mcp:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "auto-editor": {
      "command": "/Applications/Auto-Editor.app/Contents/MacOS/Auto-Editor",
      "args": ["--mcp"]
    }
  }
}

If the app isn't running when the agent connects, it is opened.

What an agent can do

Open media, projects and timelines, and switch between open projects.
Read the project, and the plan of what is kept and cut.
Change how silence is detected and what happens to it.
Cut, keep or speed up any span by hand, and add transitions and overlay layers.
Convert an edit to a multi-track timeline, and read or replace that timeline.
Transcribe, read the transcript, and make captions.
Change export settings, export, follow the render queue, and save the project.
Undo and redo.

Licenses

Agents are available on every tier, and during the free trial. An agent's exports follow the same rules as yours: they count toward the free exports, and a target or encoder that needs a license needs it for an agent too.

Any more questions? Email wyattblue@auto-editor.com