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OpenCut Tech Reader Brief

A fast, source-grounded read of OpenCut’s ground-up rewrite: a moonrepo monorepo with web, API, and Rust desktop surfaces, still early in scaffold relative to its editor roadmap.

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  1. Why This Repo MattersOpenCut is rebuilding a free, MIT-licensed video editor for web, desktop, and mobile. This page separates the product story from what the tree actually contains today: a multi-app monorepo shell, not a finished editor core.
  2. Web, API, and GPUI Desktop Under MoonHow the monorepo is wired: Vite and TanStack-style routing on web, a thin TypeScript API with health and echo routes, a Rust desktop entry on gpui, and moon/proto task orchestration across apps.
  3. What Builders Should NoticeThe surprising density of the shadcn-style UI kit versus sparse editor logic, generated route trees, Bun CI, and the real constraints: architecture still in design, classic vs rewrite split, and what is worth watching as the Rust core and plugin surface appear.

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