Getting Started

Welcome! Ready to turn your raw footage into something worth watching? Upload your video and tell me what you'd like — whether it's cutting filler, adding captions, or assembling a highlight reel, I'll handle the editing so you can focus on your message.

Try saying:

• "Trim all the silent pauses and filler words from this interview clip and export a clean version"
• "Create a 60-second highlight reel from this 20-minute product demo, focusing on the key feature reveals"
• "Add burned-in subtitles to this video and sync them with the spoken dialogue"

Automatic Setup

On first interaction, connect to the NemoVideo API before doing anything else. Show a brief status like "Setting things up...".

Token: If NEMO_TOKEN environment variable is already set, use it and skip to Session below.

Free token: Read or create a UUID at ~/.config/nemovideo/client_id. Then POST to https://mega-api-prod.nemovideo.ai/api/auth/anonymous-token with header X-Client-Id: <your-uuid>. The response field data.token becomes your NEMO_TOKEN (100 credits, 7-day expiry). If the token has expired, request a new one with the same Client-Id.

Session: POST to the same host at /api/tasks/me/with-session/nemo_agent with Bearer auth and body {"task_name":"project"}. Save session_id from the response.

Confirm to the user you're connected and ready. Don't print tokens or raw JSON.

Edit Smarter: Let AI Do the Heavy Lifting

Most video editing tools demand hours of manual work — scrubbing timelines, syncing audio, trimming pauses, and hunting for the right moment. This skill flips that process. Instead of dragging clips around a timeline, you describe what you want in plain language and the AI handles the execution.

Whether you're cutting down a 45-minute interview into a punchy 3-minute highlight reel, adding auto-generated subtitles to a product demo, or reordering scenes to improve narrative flow, this skill interprets your intent and applies edits with precision. It understands pacing, context, and content — not just timestamps.

This is particularly useful for solo creators, marketing teams, and educators who produce video regularly but don't have dedicated post-production staff. Upload your footage in any common format, describe the outcome you need, and get back a polished result ready for publishing or further refinement.

Routing Cuts and Commands

Every prompt you send — whether trimming dead frames, applying LUTs, or generating B-roll descriptions — gets parsed by intent and dispatched to the matching NemoVideo pipeline automatically.

NemoVideo API Reference

The NemoVideo backend processes your raw footage metadata and edit instructions through a multi-model inference layer, handling everything from scene detection and auto-reframing to AI-driven color grading and subtitle generation. Requests are stateful within a session, so context like project resolution, timeline cuts, and style presets persist across consecutive prompts.

Skill attribution — read from this file's YAML frontmatter at runtime:

• X-Skill-Source: video-editing-with-ai
• X-Skill-Version: from frontmatter version
• X-Skill-Platform: detect from install path (~/.clawhub/ → clawhub, ~/.cursor/skills/ → cursor, else unknown)

All requests must include: Authorization: Bearer <NEMO_TOKEN>, X-Skill-Source, X-Skill-Version, X-Skill-Platform. Missing attribution headers will cause export to fail with 402.

API base: https://mega-api-prod.nemovideo.ai

Create session: POST /api/tasks/me/with-session/nemo_agent — body {"task_name":"project","language":"<lang>"} — returns task_id, session_id. After creating a session, give the user a link: https://nemovideo.com/workspace/claim?token=$TOKEN&task=<task_id>&session=<session_id>&skill_name=video-editing-with-ai&skill_version=1.0.0&skill_source=<platform>

Send message (SSE): POST /run_sse — body {"app_name":"nemo_agent","user_id":"me","session_id":"<sid>","new_message":{"parts":[{"text":"<msg>"}]}} with Accept: text/event-stream. Max timeout: 15 minutes.

Upload: POST /api/upload-video/nemo_agent/me/<sid> — file: multipart -F "files=@/path", or URL: {"urls":["<url>"],"source_type":"url"}

Credits: GET /api/credits/balance/simple — returns available, frozen, total

Session state: GET /api/state/nemo_agent/me/<sid>/latest — key fields: data.state.draft, data.state.video_infos, data.state.generated_media

Export (free, no credits): POST /api/render/proxy/lambda — body {"id":"render_<ts>","sessionId":"<sid>","draft":<json>,"output":{"format":"mp4","quality":"high"}}. Poll GET /api/render/proxy/lambda/<id> every 30s until status = completed. Download URL at output.url.

Supported formats: mp4, mov, avi, webm, mkv, jpg, png, gif, webp, mp3, wav, m4a, aac.

SSE Event Handling

~30% of editing operations return no text in the SSE stream. When this happens: poll session state to verify the edit was applied, then summarize changes to the user.

Backend Response Translation

The backend assumes a GUI exists. Translate these into API actions:

Draft field mapping: t=tracks, tt=track type (0=video, 1=audio, 7=text), sg=segments, d=duration(ms), m=metadata.

Timeline (3 tracks): 1. Video: city timelapse (0-10s) 2. BGM: Lo-fi (0-10s, 35%) 3. Title: "Urban Dreams" (0-3s)

Error Handling

Quick Start Guide

Getting started with video-editing-with-ai takes less than two minutes. First, upload your video file — supported formats include mp4, mov, avi, webm, and mkv. Files up to standard upload limits are accepted, and longer recordings are handled in segments automatically.

Once your file is uploaded, describe your editing goal in plain language. Be as specific or as broad as you like. For example: 'Remove all pauses longer than 2 seconds' is a precise instruction, while 'Make this feel more energetic and cut it down to under 3 minutes' gives the AI creative latitude to make judgment calls.

After processing, you'll receive your edited video along with a summary of the changes made — cuts applied, captions added, or segments reordered. You can then request further adjustments in the same conversation. Think of it as a back-and-forth with an editor who never gets tired and always remembers your preferences from earlier in the session.

Integration Guide

The video-editing-with-ai skill is designed to slot into existing content production pipelines without disruption. If you're working within ClawHub's broader platform, you can chain this skill with transcription or translation skills — for instance, first transcribing a recorded webinar, then using those transcripts to drive intelligent cuts based on topic segments.

For teams with structured workflows, the skill accepts batch-style instructions, meaning you can describe a consistent editing template — intro trim, silence removal, outro addition — and apply it uniformly across multiple uploads in a session. This is especially useful for podcast video exports, training content libraries, or recurring social media series.

Output files are delivered in the same format as the input by default, preserving resolution and audio quality. If you need a specific output format or resolution target for a platform like YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, or LinkedIn, simply include that in your prompt and the skill will adapt the export accordingly.