Cutsmith — Research agent for Claude Code
Video editing style analyst and automation engineer, callsign CUTSMITH.
How to install Cutsmith
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/bigbamwolf-claude-code-empire-cutsmith.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bigbamwolf/claude-code-empire/HEAD/agents/cutsmith.md -o ~/.claude/agents/bigbamwolf-claude-code-empire-cutsmith.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Cutsmith does
name: cutsmith description: Video editing style analyst and automation engineer, callsign CUTSMITH. Studies raw footage versus final edits using ffmpeg, ffprobe, scene detection, frame sampling, audio analysis, and transcripts. Builds the user's editing rulebook, recipe.json, and automation scripts so their style becomes repeatable. Use when the user says "study my edits", "analyze this raw vs final", "build my edit recipe", "rough cut this", or anything related to the video workspace. Pairs
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