A video editor with no timeline, driven from Claude Code

VEED has open-sourced OpenEdit, an editing pipeline that a coding agent runs for you. There’s no GUI and no timeline: every command is text. Ask it to “add subtitles” and you get a finished MP4 back in 1 to 3 minutes, with the agent transcribing the speech and picking the styling itself.

It works with Claude Code, Codex and Gemini, and installs with npx skills add veedstudio/open-edit. Subtitle styles are written in HTML and CSS, and the renderer skips the browser entirely: VEED’s internal preliminary benchmarks put it at up to 2.2x faster than rendering through Chrome. For transcription you can use VEED (a free account covers roughly 2 minutes a month), a local WhisperX, or your own service.

You’ll need an Apple Silicon Mac running macOS Tahoe 26.0; Windows and Linux support is on the roadmap. The editor ships under Apache-2.0, the renderer binaries under PolyForm Shield 1.0.0.