Save and replay recipes
Turn an edit sequence you like into a named recipe and replay it on next week's footage in one click — same cuts, captions, and style every time.
When the agent lands on an edit you like — the right silence trim, your caption skin, your reframe, your sound mix — you can save that exact sequence as a recipe and replay it on new footage later. Instead of re-describing your style every week, you rebuild it in one click. Recipes are global: save one in any project and it's available in every project.
What a recipe is
A recipe is a saved, replayable sequence of the agent's edit steps with the exact settings you used — for example: close silence gaps → add TikTok Bold captions → reframe to vertical → balance the sound mix. Because each step recomputes its edit from the current project plus those settings, replaying the same steps on different footage reproduces the same treatment.
A recipe stores the steps and parameters only — not the media, and not the agent's reasoning. Replaying is a verbatim re-run, with no model involved.
Saving a recipe
There are two places to save one:
From a proposed edit. Turn on Review before applying (the settings control at the bottom-left of the composer). Now the agent's edits arrive as a "Proposed edit" card with Apply and Discard buttons — plus a circular-arrow icon button ("Save as a reusable recipe"). Click it, type a name, and hit Save. All tool steps in that proposal are captured with their exact parameters.
From a plan. Ask the agent to plan before editing:
Show me a plan first: cut the silences, caption it in tiktok-bold, reframe to 9:16, and mix the audio.
The plan card has Run plan, Discard, and the same save-as-recipe icon. Only the steps you've left enabled in the plan are saved, so you can untick a step before saving.
Prompts that produce recipe-worthy sequences:
Show me a plan first: tighten this talking head — remove silences and filler words, captions in boxed-contrast, vertical reframe, music at a low bed.
Plan it before editing: my podcast treatment — best 60 seconds from the transcript, face-focused reframe, captions, sound design.
Propose a plan: UGC-ad polish — ugc-ad style pack, a hook from the transcript, captions, and a CTA card at the end.
Replaying a recipe
Open the agent panel on a fresh chat: your saved recipes are listed under Your recipes, each with its step count. Click one and every step is re-planned against the current project, then shown as a single Recipe card summarizing what it will change. Click Apply to run it (or Discard). Applied recipe edits are undoable like any other agent edit.
If a step doesn't fit the new footage (say, a step that targets media the project doesn't have), that step reports a failure in the card instead of silently guessing — the remaining steps still apply.
To delete a recipe, click the trash icon next to it in the Your recipes list.
Recipes vs. templates and style packs
Creator templates (TikTok Highlight, Podcast Clip, …) and style packs (Viral Cut, Clean Educator, …) are built-in, one-shot treatments. A recipe is your workflow: any combination of tools, with your parameters, in your order. Use a template when you want a known look fast; save a recipe when you've tuned a sequence you'll repeat. See /docs/agent/creator-templates and /docs/agent/style-packs.
Limits
- Replaying is exact, not adaptive. Steps saved with footage-specific parameters (explicit timestamps, media ids) may not suit different footage — the agent doesn't re-think a recipe. For adaptive re-edits, prompt the agent instead.
- Recipes are saved in your browser. They follow you across projects on this device, but not to another device or browser.
- Saving from a proposed edit requires Review before applying, which is off by default and resets each session (auto-apply is the default experience).
- Read-only steps (checks, analysis) in a plan are saved and replayed too, but they only report — they never change the timeline.