binquery: scene-sequence and rushes intents (local shortlist, not Premiere)

Harry Xu — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 05:15:46 +0000

Two public editor asks map onto a local shortlist CLI. That is a mapping, not a claim we ran their bins.

You have a pile of separately-cut scenes and you lose the original order when they hit a Premiere master. One r/VideoEditing thread is about pasting a lot of scenes into a master. binquery does not paste into Premiere, restore NLE markers, or read original sequence from the files. It takes one visual-intent sentence per scene and returns 8–15 clips (path, score, gate, reasons). You keep the query order as your sequence memory. People still watch.

Trailer work often starts from rushes / dailies, not a locked master. One r/editors thread asks whether trailer editors work from raw rushes. Index your own folder, then one trailer-intent sentence → the same shortlist. It is not an auto-cut trailer.

These are unmatched pictorial queries. Unknown sentences still run. You do not have to edit src/intents.py. We have not run this against a real ~500-clip bin. CI only builds 3 lavfi clips and runs index → doctor. A real demo needs your own folder.

export BINQUERY_INDEX=./my-box
./binquery index --input ./my-videos --index "$BINQUERY_INDEX"
./binquery doctor --index "$BINQUERY_INDEX"
# scene-sequence: one sentence per scene, keep this order yourself
./binquery query --index "$BINQUERY_INDEX" "scene 2 empty hallway lock-off"
# rushes / trailer intent: one sentence against your own rushes box
./binquery query --index "$BINQUERY_INDEX" "cold open wide empty night"

Skill install is instructions only. It does not install the Python package:

npx -y skills add jennifferweslowski-design/binquery

Repo: https://github.com/jennifferweslowski-design/binquery

binquery: a local CLI shortlist, now also an agent skill

Harry Xu — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 04:53:30 +0000

I cut from a local footage box. I wanted 8–15 candidates from one sentence, not a full-library skim and not an auto-edit.

binquery is a local Python CLI. You index your own folder with ffmpeg + OpenCLIP. query encodes only the sentence and prints a shortlist: path, score, gate, reasons. Limit is 8–15. People still watch.

It is not a browser. It is not on PyPI. Clone, then:

python3 -m venv .venv
.venv/bin/pip install -e .

Needs ffmpeg / ffprobe on the machine.

Agents can install the instructions as a skill (this does not install the Python package):

npx -y skills add jennifferweslowski-design/binquery

Or copy skills/binquery/ into .agents/skills/binquery or .claude/skills/binquery.

Repo: https://github.com/jennifferweslowski-design/binquery

DEV Community: Harry Xu

binquery: scene-sequence and rushes intents (local shortlist, not Premiere)

binquery: a local CLI shortlist, now also an agent skill