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Instagram\u2019s standalone video editing app is now available on macOS<\/a>, where you can plug in your AI agent of choice to assemble your videos. Instagram\u2019s Matthew Simari, head of product management for Edits, said in an interview with The Verge<\/em>, \u201cOne of the things we\u2019re releasing with Edits Desktop is a MCP for all the tools within Edits Desktop. You can use any agent you want, you can use Muse \u2014 we would love you to \u2014 but really any agent you want of [your] choice, to edit, tweak, work with your video.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The Edits app originally launched on mobile platforms<\/a> last year. Simari said creators have been \u201cheavily\u201d requesting a desktop version, but AI plans were also a factor in the expansion to macOS. Instagram added an AI \u201ccreative assistant\u201d<\/a> to the mobile version of Edits in September, which can give users video suggestions and feedback using data and metrics from their Instagram account like views and retention on their videos.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n On the new desktop version of Edits, Simari said users can \u201cgo back and forth from agentic to manual editing.\u201d He gave an example of a creator asking Meta\u2019s Muse agent<\/a> to use the Edits MCP to make a rough cut of a video in their downloads folder, saying, \u201cIt\u2019ll be able just to go access that MCP, do the tool calls, make that rough cut for you, and then you can open that project file in Edits to continue editing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n