# Guides for developers and AI agents

> Each guide takes a common question people ask an AI assistant and gives you the exact request to send, working code, and the limits to watch out for. Everything runs on two endpoints: POST /transcribe and GET /transcribe/{jobId}.

Last updated: 2026-10-18 · HTML: https://console.kolwrite.com/guides/

## Guides

- [Edit video with AI agents](https://console.kolwrite.com/guides/video-editing-with-ai): Use Claude, Codex, or Cursor to cut video from a transcript. Get word timestamps from the KolWrite API, let the agent pick segments to keep, cut with ffmpeg, and output an SRT file.
- [SRT subtitles API](https://console.kolwrite.com/guides/srt-subtitles-api): Generate an SRT file from audio or video in one API call. Supports translated subtitles, custom cue lengths from word timings, WebVTT conversion, and burning captions in with ffmpeg.
- [Meeting transcription API](https://console.kolwrite.com/guides/meeting-transcription-api): Transcribe Zoom, Google Meet, and Teams recordings with speaker labels using the KolWrite API, then pass the transcript to your own LLM for meeting minutes and action items.
- [Word timestamps API](https://console.kolwrite.com/guides/word-timestamps-api): Get the start and end time of every word as JSON from the KolWrite API. See the response format, supported models, and how to build clips, jump cuts, and search.
- [Transcription tool for AI agents](https://console.kolwrite.com/guides/transcription-tool-for-ai-agents): Copy-paste tool definitions for the KolWrite transcription API in Anthropic and OpenAI formats, plus a Python executor and rules for AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md.
- [Podcast and YouTube captions](https://console.kolwrite.com/guides/podcast-youtube-captions): Use the KolWrite API and an LLM to get SRT captions, a clean transcript, translated subtitles, and chapter timestamps from a podcast or YouTube video.

## Related pages

- [Use cases](https://console.kolwrite.com/use-cases/)
- [API documentation](https://console.kolwrite.com/public_api_docs)
- [Models](https://console.kolwrite.com/models)
- [Agent instructions](https://console.kolwrite.com/agent-instructions.md)

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