Rushilo lets a coding agent drive a desktop video editor
Rushilo is a Mac and Windows video editor that exposes its timeline as an MCP server, so a coding agent can trim clips, add captions and build a cut while the reader watches the timeline update, for $99 once with no subscription or built-in model.
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Why it mattersA founder or marketer who already pays for a coding-agent subscription can test a workflow that did not exist last week, driving a desktop video editor by typing to the same agent that writes their code, with every change visible and reversible.
Driving a desktop video editor by typing instructions to a coding agent is a workflow nobody had last week. Rushilo, launched this week on Product Hunt, is a Mac and Windows video editor that exposes its timeline, its tools and the current clip to any MCP client. The reader selects a clip, says what should change, and the agent trims it, splits it, drops captions on it or cuts filler words from the transcript while the timeline updates on screen.
Rushilo is a product from one developer. It costs $99 once, with a licence that activates on up to three computers, which the product page shows at the top of the page. There is no subscription, no credits and no cloud model built in. Whatever model does the thinking is whichever model the reader has connected: a Claude Code or Codex subscription, Claude Desktop, Cursor or any other MCP client, or a direct API key for OpenAI, Groq, ElevenLabs or Gemini for voice, images and transcription. The keys stay in the operating system keychain.
The product reaches an agent through MCP. The product page lays out a single terminal command for Claude Code and a short config block for Codex, each of which registers Rushilo as an MCP server. Once registered, the agent sees the timeline, can look at frames, and calls Rushilo's own tool names rather than inventing them, which is how every change ends up on the visible timeline with an undo entry rather than in an opaque export.
Captions and transcription both run on the local computer, through Whisper. The page says the transcript lands on the timeline line by line, and a reader can edit it to remove filler words and tighten pauses. The same local path handles screen recording on Mac, with the editor zooming the frame where the reader clicks and framing the recording on a backdrop before the first edit.
The product page's own example cut: open on a trail shot, cut to the product at four seconds, end on a field, add an ElevenLabs voiceover of six seconds. The agent plans the cut on a board the reader pins clips and notes to, then builds the timeline from the plan. YouTube upload is in the product.
For a founder or marketer who already pays for a coding-agent subscription, the test to run is the one they are already running every week by hand: cut an intro, add captions, upload. If a sentence to an agent gets the file to YouTube with every edit visible on a timeline, the hour that currently goes to a video editor is gone. If it does not, Rushilo is a $99 experiment on a tool shape that was impossible to try at any price last month.
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- Primary source: Rushilo
- Rushilo on Product Hunt
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