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Building a VideoAgent-Style Multi-Agent System: Intent Parsing, Graph Planning, and Tool Routing for Video Editing Tasks

Not a research paper. A working multi-agent video editing system you can build today—intent parsing, graph planning, tool routing, all wired to FFmpeg and Whisper.

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Why it matters

Practical agent-as-capability tutorial showing how to architect multi-agent systems for real video workflows. Demonstrates the shift from single-model chat to orchestrated tool pipelines—a pattern founders need to understand for production AI products.

The key facts

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  1. Multi-agent architecture: intent parser, agent library, tool router, graph planner, textual-gradient optimizer

  2. Integrated tools: FFmpeg, Whisper, scene detection, keyframe sampling, captioning, cross-modal indexing, beat-synced editing

  3. Capabilities: video question-answering, summarization, artifact generation from natural-language instructions

  4. API-key-free implementation (runnable locally)

  5. Graph-based execution planning with repair mechanism

  6. Intent parser + graph planner + tool router architecture

  7. Integration with FFmpeg, Whisper, scene detection, keyframe sampling, captioning, cross-modal indexing

  8. Beat-synced editing from natural-language instructions

  9. API-key-free, runnable implementation

  10. Textual-gradient optimizer for execution graph repair

  11. Outputs: video Q&A, summaries, edited artifacts

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Publisher excerpt: In this tutorial, we reconstruct the VideoAgent workflow as a runnable, API-key-free multi-agent pipeline. We build an intent parser, an agent library, a tool router, a graph planner, and a textual-gradient optimizer that repairs the execution graph. We wire these planning components to FFmpeg,…
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