Free Tool
Drop in a raw video. It removes silences, cuts retakes and stutters, and adds a hook to the first few seconds. You get a CapCut project ready to review and publish. Built for Claude Code, completely free.
How It Works
You give it your raw video file. It transcribes the audio with AssemblyAI, makes the editing decisions, and builds a CapCut project with the cuts already done. Open it, review, export.
Every pause, breath, and dead air gets cut automatically. The result feels tight and professional without you touching a single cut point.
When you say the same thing twice (or three times), it picks the best take and drops the rest. No more scrubbing through footage to find the good one.
Claude reads what you actually said in the video and writes 5 short hook options (4 to 5 words each). You pick the one you like, and it gets added as a text overlay on the first few seconds of the video.
What You Need
The video editor code itself is completely free. You just need three things to run it, and all of them have free tiers generous enough for most creators.
Required
The AI that runs the editor. It reads your video's transcript, decides what to cut, and writes the CapCut project for you. You need a Claude Pro or Max subscription from Anthropic.
$20/month for Pro
Required
Transcribes your video with word-level timestamps so the editor knows exactly where each word starts and ends. Signing up is free and takes 30 seconds, no credit card.
Free signup credits
Required
Google's free Gemini API helps the editor understand the structure of your sentences. Free tier, no credit card. Sign up at Google AI Studio with a Google account.
Free tier
You'll also need CapCut desktop installed (free from capcut.com) and Node.js + FFmpeg on your computer. Don't worry — Claude Code checks all of that for you the first time you run it and tells you the exact one-line command to install whatever's missing.
The Real Power
This is not a locked app where you click buttons and hope for the best. It is actual code that runs inside Claude Code. Which means once you load it, you can talk to Claude and change how it works.
Want it to keep silences under 0.5 seconds instead of removing all of them? Just ask. Want it to pick the longest take instead of the last one? Tell Claude. Want to add a text overlay on the hook? Describe what you want and Claude will update the code for you.
You do not need to know how to code. You describe what you want in plain English, and Claude makes the changes. That is the whole point of building tools with AI. They adapt to how you work instead of forcing you into someone else's workflow.
Get the Video Editor
You'll get the full video editor code, a printable user guide, and instructions for connecting your free AssemblyAI and Gemini keys. Drop it into Claude Code and you're ready to roughcut your first video.
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Questions
.env inside the skill folder. The file is automatically excluded from anything that gets shared. Claude never sees the keys as text in chat — it only reads them from disk when it runs the pipeline. They never leave your computer except when transcription happens (going directly to AssemblyAI / Google).Scroll up to get the free video editor.