Originally published on andrew.ooo — visit the original for any updates, code snippets that aged out, or follow-up posts.
The browser-use team built their reputation by giving LLMs a structured DOM instead of screenshots. Now they've applied the same trick to video.
video-use is a 100% open-source skill that turns Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, OpenClaw — or any coding agent with shell access — into a full video editor. You drop raw footage into a folder, tell your agent what you want, and it hands you back final.mp4. No timeline. No menus. No presets.
The project shipped in April 2026 and hit 13,000+ GitHub stars with 3,000+ added in a single week as of early July 2026 — one of the fastest-growing repos in the browser-use org. It sits in a category that barely existed six months ago: coding agents editing video from raw source files.
I spent a few days running it against podcast rushes, product demos, and travel B‑roll. This is the review.
