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Your first vibe edit in 10 minutes

September 15, 2026

"Vibe editing" means you describe the edit, the agent does the work, and you react to results instead of dragging clips around. This is a first project sized to fit in 10 minutes, using footage that never leaves your machine.

If you have not installed an agent and ffmpeg yet, do the setup guide first.

The project

Take any talking clip you have (a screen recording, a phone video, a Zoom export) and turn it into a clean short: silences cut, captions burned in, exported vertical.

Step 1: Set the scene

mkdir first-vibe-edit && cd first-vibe-edit
cp /path/to/your/clip.mp4 input.mp4
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Step 2: Say what you want

Type this into your agent, adjusted to taste:

"Cut the silences out of input.mp4, add word-by-word captions at the bottom, crop to 9:16 centered on the speaker, and export as short.mp4. Use ffmpeg and whisper. Show me your plan before running anything."

That last sentence is the habit worth building: plan first, then execute.

Step 3: React, don't operate

The agent will transcribe, build a cut list, and burn captions. When it finishes, watch the result and give notes like you would to a human editor:

  • "The cuts feel too tight, leave 0.2s of air around sentences."
  • "Captions are too small, and make the keywords yellow."
  • "Keep the intro pause, it works."

Each note is one line. The agent re-runs the pipeline. This loop is the entire workflow.

Step 4: Keep what worked

The valuable output is not just the video, it is the working sequence of steps. Share it:

npx editfork share

The CLI reads your agent session, distills it into a runnable skill, asks for the link to wherever you posted the video, and publishes the skill page. Other people can then run your edit on their own footage, and every run counts on the leaderboard.

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