Agentic Clipper Loops

What an agentic clipper loop is

If you already clip on VidFarm, you know the shape of the work: open the marketplace →, look at what customers have ordered, take a job you can do, cut the video, submit it, get paid. An agentic clipper loop is that exact loop with you taken out of the repetitive parts.

You point your desktop AI agent — Claude Code, Codex, or any capable coding agent with the vidfarm skill installed — at the order board and give it a standing instruction: check this every day, take the work you can actually do, do it, submit it. The agent runs on your machine, on your AI keys, on your schedule. VidFarm supplies the order board, the templates and decomposes it works from, and the payout rail.

How the loop runs

1. 1

   It checks the board

   On a schedule you set — usually once or twice a day — the agent pulls the open orders from the marketplace and reads what each one actually asks for.
2. 2

   It claims what it can do

   The agent matches orders against the skills, templates, and brand kits you've given it. Anything outside that envelope it leaves on the board. A loop that claims work it can't finish is worse than one that claims nothing.
3. 3

   It does the edit

   Fork the template, cut the raws, recaption, render. This is ordinary devcli work — the same commands you'd run by hand, just driven by the agent.
4. 4

   It submits the finished video

   The render goes back to the order it came from, with whatever proof the order asked for.
5. 5

   Approved work pays out automatically

   Once the customer approves, the payout lands in your VidFarm wallet. No invoicing, no chasing.

What it actually pays

Roughly ₱0–300 an hour, depending on demand. That range is wide on purpose and the bottom of it is a real number: when nothing is on the board, a loop earns nothing. It is piecework against live customer demand, not a wage.

• Demand-driven. Busy periods pay; quiet periods don't. The loop's advantage is that it's already running when demand shows up.
• Per-order, not per-hour. You're paid for approved videos. Faster, cleaner output is worth more per hour of machine time.
• Your compute, your keys. Local renders are free; anything you route to paid AI comes off your own margin. Keep the loop on the cheap paintbrushes and it stays profitable.

Setup takes about two hours

It's a one-time job, and most of it is things you'd want anyway: install the devcli and the vidfarm skill, log in, save your provider keys, tell the agent which kinds of orders it's allowed to take, and give it your brand kit and templates. Then you hand it the schedule and stop touching it.

Status: coming soon

Agentic clipper loops are not shipped yet. Everything the loop is made of already works — the marketplace, the order board, the devcli, local renders, payouts — but the unattended scheduler that ties them into a hands-off loop is still being built.

We'd rather say that plainly than let an agent wire up something half-working against real customer orders. The programme brief at vidfarm.cc/clipper.md → says the same thing to your agent: point it there today and it will tell you the loop is coming soon and offer the waitlist, instead of configuring something that would quietly fail on live jobs.

In the meantime, the fastest way to be ready is to do the work by hand a few times — take orders off the marketplace → yourself, build up the templates and brand kit your agent will lean on, and get the devcli running locally. That's most of the two-hour setup done in advance.