An AI video workbench where your agent calls the shots

What it does

Nomi is an Electron-based desktop app that wires your existing API keys, local ComfyUI instance, or model credits into a full AI video pipeline — script, storyboard, generation, and timeline editing — without sending your footage or project files to a hosted platform. Everything stays on disk; there is no account or telemetry.

The interesting bit

The project exposes 25 MCP tools, which means Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor can remotely orchestrate storyboarding, generation, and editing inside the app. The README notes this is structurally impossible for online platforms to offer, since they monetize compute rather than act as a neutral backend for credits you already own.

Key highlights

• Local-first by design: prompts, footage, and provider setup live on your machine.
• Cost layering: draft with cheap or free models, then feed references into expensive ones only for the final render.
• ComfyUI workflows import directly from standard Save format, and the app diffs the graph against /object_info to flag missing custom nodes or models before execution.
• Around ten curated providers are pre-wired, plus any OpenAI-compatible, Anthropic, or relay endpoint via URL and key paste.
• One-person project moving fast; the author openly warns that features can land “a little rough around the edges.”

Caveats

• macOS builds are unsigned and un-notarized, so Gatekeeper will block first launch; Windows builds trigger SmartScreen for the same reason.
• Published binaries are limited to macOS arm64/x64 and Windows x64 — no Linux or Windows arm64 releases yet.
• The maintainer is a single developer, so iteration is rapid but polish is explicitly not guaranteed.

Verdict

Worth a look if you are a developer or small team sitting on a drawer full of API keys and ComfyUI workflows who wants a unified local canvas. Skip it if you need a managed, cloud-native SaaS with enterprise support.