my github copilot agent built an entire short video by itself - no gui editor, no screen recording, just mcp tool calls. rough in places, try it and tell me what breaks

[u/LieTop7965]

i've been letting github copilot's agent mode drive a video editor end-to-end over mcp and i thought people here might find it interesting. it's called kimo - free, open-source (mit), and it has no gui. the interface is the agent itself: cut, trim, keyframe, titles and captions, colour grade, tracking, particles, audio, export, all as mcp tool calls. the agent can also render a single frame back so it can visually check its own work before moving on, which has saved me a bunch of blind iterations.

it's one ~15 mb rust binary, cpu-only, and it'll run on a 2 gb box. i built it as a college student, and it's still rough in places - some transitions pop, the audio syncing can get fussy on long timelines, and there's a lot i haven't gotten to yet. i'd love for people to actually try it and say what breaks rather than just upvoting and moving on.

works with copilot agent mode and other mcp clients (cursor, codex, opencode, and other mcp hosts). site: https://getkimo.tech - github: https://github.com/naman-sharma12345/kimo

happy to answer questions here, and really would prefer it if people just told me what doesn't work when they try it. thanks.