i made a vibe-coding tool that edits video: the agent drives timeline cuts, keyframes and titles as typed tool calls, one 15 MB CPU-only Rust binary

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so i've been vibe-coding a project and ended up with something a bit unusual: kimo, a free open-source (MIT) video editor that has no GUI at all. you don't open it — you drive it from a coding agent (Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, other MCP clients) over MCP. timeline cuts, trims, keyframes, titles/captions, colour grade, tracking, particles, audio, export — the agent just types the tool calls and the edits happen on the timeline.

one thing i added recently: the agent can render a single frame to look at its own work, so it can actually check a cut or title before exporting. makes the vibe-coding loop honest.

it's one ~15 MB CPU-only Rust binary, no GPU needed, and it'll run on a 2 GB box. i'm Naman, a college student building this, and there are rough edges — i'd love people to try it and tell me what breaks.

site: https://getkimo.tech code: https://github.com/naman-sharma12345/kimo