Vecmo

Vecmo

A browser vector-motion editor that exports dependency-free runtime code.

• Export motion as code, not video: a self-contained JS runtime with typed .d.ts, not a rendered clip.
• Agent-native: a typed scene/motion document, vmactl for headless/live command work, and 26 MCP tools let an agent read and edit a project.
• GPU Look Graph effects (grain, halftone, riso, CRT, VHS, lens) export to a .dctl file for DaVinci Resolve Studio 18+.

[hello-motion exported artifact playing standalone (48.2 KB gzip)]

Quick start

bun install && bun run dev

/ opens the editor. It runs entirely in the browser: local-first, and nothing in this build talks to a server.

Checks: bun run check. Build: bun run build. No test suite ships in this repo (see CONTRIBUTING.md).

Try it

1. bun run dev, then open /?ref=hello-motion.
2. Export → Motion / Code → EMBED ("Motion Artifact", self-contained embeddable artifact).
3. Unzip the download: hello-motion.runtime.js, its .d.ts, a manifest, and a demo HTML page.

Other reference scenes live at /?ref=<slug>; see src/features/reference-scenes/model/registry.ts for the full list.

Headless, without the GUI: bun run export:motion-artifact -- --ref hello-motion --out ./out writes the same four files (deterministic; --commands plan.json applies an agent edit plan first, --dump-documents emits raw scene/motion JSON for the MCP tools).

Example consumer

vecmo-example — live at https://vecmo-example.pages.dev — is an unrelated Vite site that imports only the exported files at runtime (no Vecmo source, no SDK): a WebGL look-graph piece as hero, scroll-driven seekProgress, palette re-theming, a measured size ladder (49.8 KB / 118 KB / 198 KB gzip), Lighthouse 0.98 desktop / 0.91 mobile, a zero-leak mount/destroy probe, and one real MCP edit → CLI re-export loop.

Export sizes (measured, gzip -9)

Reproduce: bun run export:motion-artifact -- --ref <slug> --out ./out (prints raw/gzip bytes and tier), or bun run dev → /?ref=<slug> → Export → EMBED → gzip the <slug>.runtime.js inside the zip.

Other export targets: WebGL player, PDF, WebM, SVG, and DCTL (DaVinci Resolve look export).

MCP

Add the repo's .mcp.json to Claude Code or Cursor; it launches bun run mcp:agent (scripts/vma-agent-mcp.ts) as a local stdio server exposing 26 tools over a typed scene/motion document, for example observe_document, apply_scene_commands, and export_artboard. For headless or scripted work, bun run vmactl talks the same command envelope directly, without an MCP client. Read docs/agent-command-catalog.md for the full command reference and docs/live-mcp-agent-runbook.md for live-editing over the local relay (bun run agent:bridge).

Scope

This repository is the editor: it runs fully in the browser, and nothing here talks to a server. The vecmo.dev hosted service (accounts, cloud projects, billing) is a separate, private backend and is not included.

Architecture

Start at docs/architecture.md for the responsibility layers (app -> pages -> widgets -> features -> entities -> shared) and docs/codemap.md for where each subsystem lives.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

The editor is AGPL-3.0-only. A developer layer (the agent/CLI toolkit, the runtime player control/manifest code, and packages/editor-kernel) is MIT; see REUSE.toml for the exact file list. Everything you export — the runtime JS, the WebGL player, their .d.ts files, and your scene/motion/backup documents — carries an added AGPL §7 permission (the Vecmo Runtime Output Exception), so you can embed exported artifacts in proprietary sites and owe nothing back for them. Details: LICENSING.md.