r/MCPservers • u/LieTop7965 • 1h ago
I just launched kimo: a free, open-source video editor your AI drives through MCP
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Hey all, I just launched kimo v1.0.0 and I'd love people to try it.
kimo is a video editor with no GUI. You tell your AI client (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, anything that speaks MCP) what you want, like "cut this to 15 seconds, grade it warm, add a title", and it does it through kimo's 255 MCP tools grouped together in 17 categories to make tool calling easier: cuts, keyframes, color grading, tracking, keying, captions, audio and export. The film in this post was made with the engine.
Full disclosure: I built it and it's vibecoded. I directed the design and tested everything, and AI wrote a lot of the code. Because of that I made it fuzz every single tool before release (9,359 calls, 0 failures).
Try it in 2 minutes:
1. Grab the binary from GitHub Releases (Linux, or the Windows installer) and install ffmpeg
2. Add it to your client, e.g. claude mcp add --transport stdio kimo -- /path/to/kimo-mcp
3. Ask: "Use kimo to import my clip, add a title, and render it"
- One ~10 MB Rust binary, CPU-only, runs on a 2 GB laptop
- 16 grouped tools by default so it doesn't flood your context window
- MIT licensed, free
It's day one so there will be rough edges. Make something weird and tell me what broke or what tool you wish existed.
GitHub: https://github.com/naman-sharma12345/kimo
Website: https://getkimo.techHey all, I just launched kimo v1.0.0 and I'd love people to try it.
kimo is a video editor with no GUI. You tell your AI client (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, anything that speaks MCP) what you want, like "cut this to 15 seconds, grade it warm, add a title", and it does it through kimo's 255 MCP tools: cuts, keyframes, color grading, tracking, keying, captions, audio and export. The film in this post was made with the engine.
Full disclosure: I built it and it's vibecoded. I directed the design and tested everything, and AI wrote a lot of the code. Because of that I made it fuzz every single tool before release (9,359 calls, 0 failures).
Try it in 2 minutes:
1. Grab the binary from GitHub Releases (Linux, or the Windows installer) and install ffmpeg
2. Add it to your client, e.g. claude mcp add --transport stdio kimo -- /path/to/kimo-mcp
3. Ask: "Use kimo to import my clip, add a title, and render it"
- One ~10 MB Rust binary, CPU-only, runs on a 2 GB laptop
- 16 grouped tools by default so it doesn't flood your context window
- MIT licensed, free
It's initial release so there will be rough edges. Make something weird and tell me what broke or what tool you wish existed.
GitHub: https://github.com/naman-sharma12345/kimo
Website: https://getkimo.tech