Palmier Pro: edit a macOS video timeline from Claude, Codex or Cursor
The AI-native NLE hit Hacker News today: a free, GPL-3.0 editor with a local MCP server, on-device footage search, and paid in-app clip generation.
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Your agent edits through a local MCP server
Palmier runs an HTTP MCP server on 127.0.0.1:19789. Run `claude mcp add --transport http palmier-pro http://127.0.0.1:19789/mcp` and Claude — or Codex or Cursor — can read your timeline and trim, reorder and cut clips for you. It's origin-validated and local-only, so nothing leaves your Mac.
Free editor, paid generation
The Swift 6.2 editor and the MCP server are free, open source (GPL-3.0) and need no account. In-timeline generation from models like Seedance, Kling and Grok is the paid tier — $29/mo Pro or $69/mo Max for credits. It's macOS 26 on Apple Silicon only.
Search and export stay on-device
Semantic footage search runs on Google's SigLIP 2 converted to Core ML, plus local speech-to-text to jump by spoken words — no cloud uploads. Export to H.264/H.265/ProRes MP4 or NLE XML for Premiere and DaVinci. It's at v0.3.5 with 5,000+ GitHub stars.
What to build this weekend
Point an agent at a folder of raw footage and have it assemble a rough cut from a text brief, or script repeatable edits — trim silences, reorder to a shotlist — as an agent workflow instead of hand-clicking a timeline. It speaks the same MCP surface Claude Code and Cursor already do.