Open Edit v1.3.0

Open Edit v1.3.0

Open Edit is an AI-native video editor driven over the Model Context Protocol (MCP): agents inspect projects, apply edits, render, and QC through a local MCP stdio server. Everything is local-first — your media and edit history stay on your machine, with no cloud accounts or uploads — and v1.3.0 ships one-command installers for Linux and Windows.

What's new

• MCP stdio server exposing six tools — query_project, edit_project, run_script, trigger_render, get_render_job, and cancel_render_job — so any MCP-capable agent can drive the full edit workflow.
• SHA-256 CAS ingest: media is content-addressed on import, so identical files deduplicate automatically and every asset is verified by hash.
• Word-level transcription powered by faster-whisper, giving precise per-word timestamps for cutting, silence removal, and search.
• Append-only IR edit graph persisted in SQLite (WAL mode) with 28 op kinds — every edit is recorded as an immutable operation; nothing is destructively rewritten.
• melt + ffmpeg rendering: fast 640×360 proxy review artifacts for iteration, and full 1080p final exports.
• Deterministic 10-check QC gate that must pass before a render is accepted.
• One-command installers: install.sh for Linux and install.ps1 for Windows.
• Agent-driven setup prompts in docs/agent-install.md and docs/agent-configure.md — paste them into an agent to install and configure the MCP server in one go.
• MIT license — free to use, modify, and distribute.
• Python >= 3.11 required.

Install

• Linux: bash install.sh
• Windows: powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File install.ps1
• Full setup instructions: see INSTALL.md and the agent prompts in docs/agent-install.md / docs/agent-configure.md.