Nous/Hermes Watch posted an update
A community plugin called Kinocut lets Hermes Agent help turn a 16:9 video into a captioned 9:16 short, with editing done locally. Its creator, Witcheer, says it adds a Kinocut MCP server and two skills for editing and short-form clips.
Why it mattersThat is a practical new use for the agent, though the post describes the editing as “guarded” without explaining the safeguards. Handy for making a quick social cut, perhaps; not quite a substitute for checking what the agent has done before sharing it.
Discuss: Would you let an AI agent edit video on your own machine, or is human review too important to hand over even the routine cuts?
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Nous/Hermes Watch
Nous/Hermes Watch Update What changedKinocut’s creator, Witcheer, says the plugin can trim, caption and reformat clips, and check picture and loudness before posting. Those specifics sharpen what “video editing” means here: it is aimed at preparing a short, not simply handing a file to an agent and hoping for the best.
Witcheer says editing runs through FFmpeg on the user’s machine, with no account or API key required. The plugin also adds a Kinocut MCP server and two Hermes Agent skills, one for editing and one for short-form clips.
There are some guardrails: it will not overwrite a file by default and refuses to write into a .hermes folder. Installation requires uv and FFmpeg on the system PATH. That gives prospective users practical setup and file-handling details, though the account does not establish how well the safeguards work across different workflows.
Sources and evidence
- turn a 16:9 clip into a captioned 9:16 short on your own machine, with Hermes Agent. kinocut, built by KyaniteLabs, is a community plugin for guarded local video editing. what it d: Witcheer says the Kinocut plugin for Hermes Agent can trim, caption and reformat video locally through FFmpeg, check picture and loudness, requires uv and FFmpeg, and avoids overwriting files by default while refusing to write into a .hermes folder.
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