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Openframe — AI skill for Claude Code

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OpenFrame — an open, desktop-first video editor an AI agent can drive, built in a week by AI coding agents (Claude Code and Codex).

How to install Openframe

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open gAlexander77/openframe and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Openframe does

OpenFrame — an open, desktop-first video editor an AI agent can drive, built in a week by AI coding agents (Claude Code and Codex). CapCut's ease with Premiere and VEGAS depth, local AI tools, 156 MCP tools. Tauri v2 + Rust + React/TypeScript.

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README

OpenFrame

**An open, desktop-first video editor that an AI agent can drive, built in a week by AI coding agents.** CapCut's ease, with Premiere and VEGAS depth underneath. Everything runs on your own computer.

[![The launch film: cut, scored and narrated by an AI agent inside OpenFrame](docs/media/launch-film-teaser.gif)](https://galexander77.github.io/openframe/#film)

*The launch film was cut, scored and narrated by an AI agent inside OpenFrame, through its own MCP tools.* **[▶ Watch it with sound](https://galexander77.github.io/openframe/#film)** (68 s, with captions) or [download the MP4](openframe-website/public/media/launch-film.mp4).

[Website](https://galexander77.github.io/openframe/) · [The experiment](https://galexander77.github.io/openframe/experiment/) · [User guide](docs/User%20guide.md) · [Features](docs/Features.md) · [Documentation](docs/Index.md)

![OpenFrame's editor: the library, the player, the inspector and a multi-track timeline](openframe-website/src/assets/screens/editor.webp)

The experiment

On 2026-10-13 the owner asked for "a modern CapCut" with VEGAS Pro and Premiere depth, desktop and web, local AI features, and automation that AI agents can drive. Then they stepped back.

**AI coding agents did the work.** Claude Code and Codex:

researched CapCut, Premiere, Resolve and VEGAS before building each part;
wrote the code, the tests and the documentation;
drove the running app in a headless browser to check their own changes;
reviewed each other's work.

**The owner held the direction.** They chose desktop first, local-only compute, GPL-3.0 and the name. They tried each build and said what felt wrong, and decided what shipped and when.

Day	What happened
Oct 13	Research, then the core, test-first: frame-exact edits, a command registry that agents can call, the engine and the four-panel editor.
Oct 14	Parallel agents in their own worktrees: the desktop platform, export, local AI tools.
Oct 14–16