Onano Studio

Edit video by asking. Claude Code or Codex works on a real timeline in Onano Studio: shorts, captions, motion graphics, sound, export and publish. Free, and your footage stays on your computer.

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Onano Studio for Claude Code and Codex

Edit video by asking. This plugin connects Claude Code or Codex to Onano Studio, a free desktop video editor for Windows, so your agent can work on a real timeline you can see and change by hand:

  • turn a long recording into shorts, reframed for TikTok, Reels and Shorts
  • take out pauses and filler words
  • caption from the transcript, in your look
  • write animated motion graphics (titles, stats, lists, lower thirds) for the moment
  • add sound effects, cut music to the beat, even out voices
  • export, and open Publish for YouTube, TikTok and Instagram (you press the button)

Transcription, picture analysis and rendering run on your computer. Your footage is never uploaded, and the thinking runs on the Claude Code or Codex plan you already have.

Setup

  1. Install Onano Studio (free): https://onano.app/download. Open it once.

  2. Install the plugin.

    Claude Code

    /plugin marketplace add onanostudio/onano-plugins
/plugin install onano-studio@onano

    Codex

    codex plugin marketplace add onanostudio/onano-plugins
codex plugin add onano-studio@onano

    or, in the Codex app, find Onano Studio under Plugins.

  3. Restart the agent, open Studio's window, and ask: "Turn my latest recording into three shorts with captions."

How it works

The plugin starts OnanoMcp.exe, the MCP server that ships inside Onano Studio, through a small launcher (bin/onano-mcp.cmd) that finds where Studio is installed. If Studio is not installed, the launcher says so and the agent points you to the download. Set ONANO_MCP to the full path of OnanoMcp.exe if you installed Studio somewhere unusual.

Two skills come with it: get-started checks the connection on first use, and onano-video-editing teaches the agent how to edit in Studio: read the timeline before changing it, look at rendered frames before calling something done, and ask before anything that spends credits or publishes.

Already connected Onano from inside Studio (Settings → Connect Claude Code)? Then you do not need this plugin as well; either one is enough.

Requirements

Windows 10 or 11 with Onano Studio installed. Studio is not available for macOS yet.