Assistant#
The Chat panel lets you edit by describing what you want: “cut the pauses out of this interview”, “put subtitles on it”, “make the intro match the beat”. The assistant does it with the editor’s own tools, the same ones you use, and you watch the timeline change as it works.
Choose who does the work#
The first time you open the Chat panel, Wunjo asks How would you like to work with Wunjo?. Both choices drive the editor the same way, and you can switch at any time.
- A local model
A language model installed as a plugin runs on your computer and answers in the panel. Qwen 3.5 is published this way; install it like any other plugin. Install several and switch between them with / in the message box. One plugin is one model.
- External MCP (your own agent)
Keep the agent you already use: Claude Code, Cursor or Codex. Wunjo writes a folder containing the tool registration and instructions for it. Open a terminal in that folder and start your agent (for Claude Code, run
claude). You talk to the agent in the terminal, and what it does shows up in the Chat panel and on the timeline. No model runs on your machine.
Both ways need the MCP server, which is how an assistant reaches the editor. If it is missing, Wunjo says so: install it in , on the MCP tab.
Working in the Chat panel#
Type a message and press Enter. While the assistant works, you see what it is thinking and each tool it uses. Stop the assistant interrupts it.
- Attach files
Attach files gives the assistant media or documents to work on.
- Voice input
Dictate instead of typing. This uses the Whisper speech engine, configured in , on the Speech to text tab.
- Commands
Type / in the message box:
/new: start a new chat/history: find an earlier chat (chats are saved per project)/skills: how the assistant should work/loops: a pipeline for it to follow
Skills and loops#
Skills are short instructions the assistant reads before it starts: how to cut spoken footage, time subtitles, grade a sequence, direct narration. They are why its result looks like an edit rather than clips laid end to end. Wunjo ships a library of them. You can edit any of them (your version is then the one used), hide the ones you do not want, and write or import your own as Markdown or text files.
A loop is a whole scenario broken into steps, together with the tools or plugins to use at each step. The assistant follows it from start to finish. Use loops for jobs you repeat, such as turning a long recording into short clips.
Using plugins from the assistant#
The assistant can run your installed plugins as part of its work, for example cloning a voice for narration it wrote. Assistant plugins themselves are never offered to it, so it cannot call itself.
To write your own assistant or tool plugin, see Wunjo Plugins.