OpenCut Gains 14.8K Stars in a Month Rebuilding the Open CapCut Alternative Around an MCP Server

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OpenCut-app/OpenCut was among the top three trending GitHub repos on July 17, 2026, adding roughly 14,800 stars in July alone. The project is restructuring itself around APIs, plugins, headless automation, and an MCP server — meaning an agent can drive the timeline directly. It is one of the first consumer creative tools to treat agent control as a first-class interface rather than a bolt-on.