Cut Mistakes & Repeats (Pipeline Agent 2)

Second step of the automated edit, run after cut-silences. It removes the things a human editor cuts on a second pass: stutters ("the the", "I- I-"), immediately repeated words, false starts (an abandoned phrase that restarts), and retakes (a line re-recorded — keep the clean take, drop the botched one).

Deciding what counts as a mistake is judgment, not a formula — emphatic repetition ("never, never") and rhetorical doubling ("the first piece is, is this…") look identical to a stutter mechanically. So this agent is review-gated by default: it surfaces candidates with full context; the agent (and the user) decide; only approved cuts are rendered.

When to use

• "cut the mistakes", "remove stutters / repeats", "clean up the flubs", "keep the best take", "cut false starts"
• As the second stage of the master edit workflow, on cut-silences' output.

The three-part flow

1. Find candidates (mechanical)

node .agents/skills/cut-mistakes/scripts/find-cut-candidates.mjs \
  <silence-transcript.json> --out-dir video-projects/<slug>/assets