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2026-09-14

BrushCue 1.4.0 Release Notes

By Anthony Dito

A more private and open BrushCue.

The goal of BrushCue is to create a private and open platform for media creation that people and AI agents can work on side-by-side. Our version 1.4.0 is a big step in that direction.

BrushCue Script Is Embedded in the Editor

The BrushCue Script is now editable from your browser. You have the choice to edit in the traditional layer approach or directly in code. AI agents, we've found, prefer to edit the code directly. Now, the power of code and the ease of use of a layer UI are side-by-side and work together in BrushCue.

Now Completely Private In Your Browser

Previously, to save your projects, we uploaded everything to our servers. This is no longer the case, your BrushCue projects are now saved directly in your browser and we never see your files or edits. You no longer need an account or to share your projects with us to persist your projects. The three cases where our servers have access to your projects are:

  1. Using the AI chat feature.
  2. Exporting in a format we cannot encode in the browser (such as HEIC).
  3. Using operations that require server processing (such as CompositionSegment).

If you want to avoid sharing your projects, the easiest way to do that is to just not log in to BrushCue and work logged out. If you need this functionality but want to remain logged out, here's how to work around it:

  1. For AI chat, you can edit the .bcue files for your project directly on your computer using Claude, Codex, or whatever model. Just direct your agent to use the bcue command line tool to compile and run your projects.
  2. For file conversion, you can use the bcue command line tool to run your projects. Then, you can use various other software to convert into the output type you want. AI agents can do this easily!
  3. For computer vision models, you can set up AI models on your computer and use the Python API for BrushCue to call them.

Out with MCP, In with CLI

To make BrushCue more private and open, we have deprecated our MCP and have moved to a CLI tool. The CLI tool runs directly from your computer on BrushCue projects that exist on your computer. There is no interaction with our servers at all to edit your projects using AI.

There are three ways to obtain the BrushCue CLI.

  1. If you are on Linux, sudo snap install bcue.
  2. If you are on Mac, brew install ditotechnologies/tap/bcue.
  3. Download directly from GitHub releases.