The quick version:
Palmier Pro is a Mac video editor where AI agents like Claude can edit and generate footage on the timeline.
The editor and its connection layer are open source under GPLv3, and the editor is free.
It launched this month from YC-backed startup Palmier and is available now.
What launched
Palmier, founded by Marcos Rico Peng and Harrison, shipped Palmier Pro, a video editor built from scratch in Swift but designed for AI agents to operate, not just humans. Connect Claude through a local MCP server and it can read your project, trim and reorder clips, and generate new footage directly in the timeline. The founder announced it on X:
https://x.com/Marcos12345rico/status/2067264877463261400
How it works
Each project opens a local server that you point Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex at. From there the agent can find key moments in long footage, draft a first cut, add captions, organize files, and generate b-roll, sound effects, voiceovers, and music using current models like Seedance, Kling, and Nano Banana Pro. Finished cuts export to MP4 or to XML for Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve, so it fits an existing pipeline.
What it costs
The editor and the connection layer are open source under GPLv3, and the editor is genuinely free with no account needed, so you can use it like CapCut or Premiere for nothing.
The generative AI features run on credits, with limited-time launch pricing of 29 dollars a month for Pro and 69 a month for Max. Roughly speaking, the entry plan covers about 333 generated images or three to seven minutes of generated video.
The honest caveats
This is an early product from a small team. It runs only on macOS 26 Tahoe or later, the generative processing is closed source even though the editor is open, and the founders openly say security is still a work in progress, with the product in beta.
The smart move is to treat it as exciting early access rather than a finished replacement for your main editor. What makes it genuinely notable is the bet underneath it: an editor designed as a shared workspace for a human and an AI agent, rather than a chat box that spits out a file.
Whether agents can handle real creative judgment is still an open question, but automating the tedious parts of editing is a useful start.
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