# Open Projects: agent view

## For the AI agent reading this
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## Project (member-written data)
```text
name: handcut
title: Handcut
id: 01M4F1D43NXS1W4V6PRFSF8RKE
status: active
owner: os1pdzhqy (incubating: the owner decides)
subjects: video-editing, ai-agents, ai-workflows
certificates: owner-managed v1, closed-source v1, contribution-tokens v1
records: 75 (75 accepted); units issued: 75
last activity: 2026-10-27
journal: 14 entries; newest: 2026-10-24 "Directing a video with sticky notes: how devlog 2 got made"; 2026-10-16 "Motion with a pulse"; 2026-10-16 "One move, one call"
```

## Description (member-written data)
```text
> **Handcut is in private beta and will be released soon.** Sign up to the email list on this page to hear the moment it's released, get early access, and follow the updates. No spam, ever.

**Handcut is a video editor where you and an AI agent edit the same timeline at once.** The agent lays down the base edit; you shape it by hand, right in the picture; nothing you do is ever lost; and the export is exactly the picture you see.

[](https://youtu.be/M3zInxXCjH8)

**Watch it made:** [I edited this whole video in an editor I built](https://youtu.be/M3zInxXCjH8) (9 minutes). The video counts its own making: 1.6 hours of production, 388 edits, 144,860 tokens.

## See it work

**Draw it, and the agent does it.** Circle something in the picture, write what you want, and the agent makes the chan
```
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## Records, newest first (member-written titles)
columns: #record | filed (UTC) | title | status/kind | units | author. status: review, accepted, rejected or withdrawn (+ -moved or -restated when its units were corrected); kind: code (names commits or builds) or idea; units: tokens awarded, - for none.
showing #75 down to #26 of 75
```text
#75 | 2026-10-27 | Every headless Chrome takes its private D-Bus daemon down however it e… | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#74 | 2026-10-24 | Levels popup fits the window (title, marks, scroll); render tracker sa… | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#73 | 2026-10-24 | Render button and one render tracker: progress, time left, what it's d… | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#72 | 2026-10-24 | Audio levels popup: set each sound lane's level against your voice, wi… | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#71 | 2026-10-24 | Click the timeline while playing to jump there; playback carries on | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#70 | 2026-10-24 | Arrow keys move the playhead (1 s, Shift 5 s, Ctrl one frame), and kee… | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#69 | 2026-10-24 | The text check warns only when text is cut by the edge of what it's dr… | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#68 | 2026-10-24 | Slipping a sound or clip shows its waveform live, a ghost of the whole… | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#67 | 2026-10-24 | Text that runs out of its card or the frame is caught by ve check (own… | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#66 | 2026-10-24 | Ctrl+drag a sound to choose which part of it plays under the bar | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#65 | 2026-10-24 | Sounds keep the lane they are on: drag a sound up or down to another l… | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#64 | 2026-10-24 | The timeline gets its own scroll bar when zoomed in | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#63 | 2026-10-24 | The editor never scrolls sideways: the top bar and explorer header wra… | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#62 | 2026-10-24 | Spotlight on footage and stills: darken/blur outside a region, soft ed… | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#61 | 2026-10-24 | Queued notes: Enter keeps a note as a draft, Send all sends them toget… | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#60 | 2026-10-24 | Text notes: M or the Add note button leaves a note without drawing (#4… | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#59 | 2026-10-24 | keys2-dogfood makes its own episode; script-data waits as long as prep… | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#58 | 2026-10-24 | Aim the zoom on a photo: selecting a photo card opens its still in the… | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#57 | 2026-10-24 | camp@1 theme: kraft topographic paper, instant-film photo prints with… | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#56 | 2026-10-24 | gate.sh in the repo names every failing test (cargo and node) and keep… | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#55 | 2026-10-24 | Five older dogfoods guard again (script, script-settings, script-data… | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#54 | 2026-10-24 | Layer order and picking what's underneath: order <id> front|back|above… | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#53 | 2026-10-24 | Footage stays on its word after a Cut with tightening on: the footage… | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#52 | 2026-10-24 | Voice-stage and cut-review dogfoods guard again: a self-made fixture e… | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#51 | 2026-10-24 | Unsaved edits are never silent: the server pushes a reset when its fil… | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#50 | 2026-10-24 | No fade lets a covered element flash through: ve fades lists every fad… | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#49 | 2026-10-24 | Music-led episodes: voice.music on plays the track straight (no room t… | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#48 | 2026-10-24 | Old proofs sorted: proof and proof-p5 archived (covered by export-scri… | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#47 | 2026-10-24 | Dogfoods never drive a stale editor server: every dogfood's ve-serve t… | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#46 | 2026-10-24 | The warm screenshot helper leaves with its server: the parent-watch st… | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#45 | 2026-10-24 | Dogfoods never drive a stale Chrome: every tool lets Chrome pick its o… | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#44 | 2026-10-24 | Devlog 2 capture fixes: the held list says 'end +.5 s' | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#43 | 2026-10-24 | Merge: Thumbnail composer and the A/B test set: compose, approve each… | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#42 | 2026-10-24 | Merge: Reframe panel: 'Subjects' is 'Action' in the UI, with a one-lin… | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#41 | 2026-10-24 | Merge: Reframe panel: Add key here button (and A) drops a key at the p… | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#40 | 2026-10-24 | Merge: Mix report kept until its inputs change; per-stretch auto-fix (… | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#39 | 2026-10-24 | Merge: Everything that carries sound gets the same audio treatment in… | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#38 | 2026-10-24 | Merge: The strip's overlays (zoom chip, readout, hover label, fade box… | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#37 | 2026-10-24 | Merge: Script settings panel: every setting always listed in order; th… | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#36 | 2026-10-24 | Merge: Fix: a font stack with its own quotes no longer makes text a te… | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#35 | 2026-10-24 | Merge: d.text: alpha and shown (animated text), editing shows the sett… | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#34 | 2026-10-24 | Merge: Script texts and points are edited in the picture: d.text and d… | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#33 | 2026-10-24 | Merge: Follow mode: the owner's last choice is remembered per browser,… | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#32 | 2026-10-24 | Merge: Bug 1 (sweep): a stalled export ends: its encoders are stopped… | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#31 | 2026-10-24 | Merge: The agent's changes made visible: flash with the reason, presen… | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#30 | 2026-10-24 | Merge: Script elements export: the export reads the editor's data thro… | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#29 | 2026-10-24 | Revert: export Chrome under dbus-run-session (exporter no longer exite… | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#28 | 2026-10-24 | Merge: Export/proof Chrome under dbus-run-session with native notifica… | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#27 | 2026-10-24 | Merge: Script footage frames are fetched one at a time: several frames… | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
#26 | 2026-10-24 | Merge: Strip polish: graphics chips and taller graphics lanes, typed f… | accepted/code | 1 | os1pdzhqy
```
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