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    "name": "podcli",
    "tagline": "Local podcast clipper with face tracking and burned captions, driven from a CLI, a web studio, or 26 MCP tools.",
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    "description": "One command transcribes an episode with whisper.cpp, scores moments, crops to the speaker, and renders captioned vertical clips on your machine. The same engine is exposed as a stdio MCP server so Claude Code or Codex can run the whole flow through to YouTube publishing.",
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        "Linux",
        "Windows"
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        "manage_presets",
        "manage_thumbnail_config",
        "manage_integrations",
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        "job": "Generate thumbnails",
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        "job": "Publish to YouTube",
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      },
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        "job": "Read performance analytics",
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        "evidence": "README lists analytics in the studio; no MCP tool named for it in the docs list"
      },
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        "job": "Export to DaVinci Resolve",
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        "job": "Keep titles and captions in the show's voice",
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            "kind": "source",
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      "58 stars and a young repo: thin evidence of users beyond the Builder",
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      "Intel Mac support is in progress"
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