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Understand ChatCut

Web, Desktop, and Agent Plugin

ChatCut has three product forms. They follow the same workflow: an AI agent helps change a video project that you can continue editing manually. They differ in how you install them, how they access media, how agent usage is billed, and where the work takes place.

ChatCut Desktop

ChatCut Desktop is the native macOS or Windows editor. Download the version for your computer: macOS (Apple silicon), macOS (Intel), or Windows.

  • Where you edit: the native ChatCut app.
  • Where you talk to AI: (1) the Desktop AI panel, where Agent Selection lets you use ChatCut, Claude Code, or Codex CLI;
    (2) your own Codex or Claude Code app, controlling ChatCut Desktop directly.
  • Where media lives: Desktop can read supported local files and folders from your computer.
  • How video exports: supported video exports render locally, including 4K and HDR when the computer supports the selected option.
  • Use it when: your source library is already on the computer, you want a local agent workflow, or you need local export.

Desktop still needs the internet for sign-in, synchronization, hosted generation, and other cloud-backed features. It is not a fully offline product.

ChatCut Agent Plugin

The Agent Plugin moves the main conversation into Claude Code Desktop or the Codex desktop app. The host agent connects to ChatCut and opens an editable ChatCut project in its Browser pane.

  • Where you edit: the ChatCut editor shown in the agent conversation’s built-in browser.
  • Where you talk to AI: Claude Code Desktop or the Codex desktop app.
  • How it connects: through the installed ChatCut plugin and its hosted MCP connection.
  • Use it when: you want an external desktop agent to lead the workflow while keeping the result editable in ChatCut. In general, we recommend letting an agent control ChatCut Desktop directly instead.

The plugin cannot be installed in Claude’s website, ChatGPT’s website, a remote web conversation, or the ChatCut web editor. Start a new conversation in the matching desktop app and send the applicable setup prompt exactly as shown.

Claude Code

/goal Read chatcut.io/claude to install and use the ChatCut plugin

Codex

/goal Read chatcut.io/chatgpt to install the ChatCut plugin and set up a new task for me.

Continue to Compare the Three ChatCut Products for a side-by-side capability table, or Which ChatCut Product Should I Use? for a task-based recommendation.

ChatCut web app

The web app is the fastest way to start. Open app.chatcut.io, sign in, and work in the ChatCut editor in a desktop browser.

  • Where you edit: the ChatCut browser editor.
  • Where you talk to AI: the built-in AI panel.
  • Where media lives: imported and generated media appears in My Assets.
  • How video exports: supported exports render through ChatCut’s cloud workflow.
  • Use it when: you want to start quickly, work with cloud projects, or share a project with other people.
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