Kinocut

Communityby Community (KyaniteLabs)freeverified Aug 11, 2026

Guardrailed local video editing MCP — FFmpeg, receipts, quality gates, and repurposing.

What it does

Kinocut, formerly mcp-video, wraps FFmpeg and adjacent media tools behind typed, preflighted MCP operations, with a `kino` CLI and Python client over the same engine. For filmmaker agents it is the safer local post bench: inspect clips, trim and merge, burn captions, normalize audio, render variants, run release checkpoints, and fail early when an edit would produce bad media. Every operation writes a Video Receipt with input and output hashes so another agent or a human can verify what actually happened.

Connect

Claude Code

claude mcp add kinocut -- uvx --from kinocut kino

Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-video": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "--from",
        "kinocut",
        "kino"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Cursor (.cursor/mcp.json)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-video": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "--from",
        "kinocut",
        "kino"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Auth: none

Tools you'll see

search_toolsvideo_infovideo_trimvideo_mergevideo_subtitlesvideo_normalize_audiovideo_release_checkpointvideo_repurposevideo_workflow_rendervideo_review_runhyperframes_render

Field notes

Renamed: KyaniteLabs' mcp-video is now Kinocut. The slug here stays `mcp-video` so existing links keep resolving, but the project, package, CLI and docs have all moved. The old docs site kyanitelabs.github.io/mcp-video now 404s; product docs live at kinocut.dev. PyPI `mcp-video` is only a compatibility installer these days (1.6.6 pulls kinocut 1.13.2) — install `kinocut` and drive it with the `kino` CLI. Apache-2.0, 107 stars, Python >=3.11, pushed Aug 11 2026, registered in the official MCP Registry as io.github.KyaniteLabs/kinocut; GitHub is a mirror, the canonical source is the maintainer's own Forgejo. Core editing needs FFmpeg on PATH and AI extras (Whisper, demucs, upscalers) add gigabytes, so install only the extras you need. The 194-tool count is self-reported, and the README openly lists surfaces that are gated or unreleased — desktop packaging, the trusted-execution kernel, paid generative and dubbing plans.

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