Drafting with Your Agent

Sashimii doesn’t pick the takes itself. Your own agent does, on the subscription you already have: Claude Code or Codex, using the Sashimii skill and command-line tool. Install both from the welcome window, or later with Sashimii › Install Command-Line Tool and Agent Skill… (Getting Started).

Ask for a Draft

In your agent’s chat, type:

check Sashimii

Your agent runs sashimii check, which lists what is waiting: projects set up with no cut yet, open notes, and Style requests. It starts on yours, or asks which one if several are waiting.

You can also name the project, or copy the request: Copy Request on the Project ready card copies a ready-made request to paste into any agent.

Tell It Your Rules

What counts as a retake, which repeats are on purpose, and which pauses and breaths stay is your call. Tell your agent in the chat, or point it to a file of your rules. Where you say nothing, the skill’s defaults apply:

• Keep the last clean, complete take of anything said more than once.
• Cut stumbles, restarts and asides not meant for the audience.
• Cut everything before the first kept word and after the last.
• Cut nothing just for length, and keep repeats that sound deliberate.
• When unsure, keep it and leave a note.

What Your Agent Does

1. It writes a small file saying it is drafting. While it’s there, a banner across the project window says so.
2. It reads the whole transcript, then names each cut by its first and last word. The command-line tool works out the frames.
3. It leaves a note for every judgement call, such as a take it wasn’t sure about.
4. It runs the edge pass, which moves every cut edge onto the waveform, cuts long pauses and flags borderline ones for you.
5. It removes the banner file. The banner then says the draft is ready, with the cut length and the number of notes.
6. It reports the length before and after, the cuts by kind, and its notes in the order to check them.

For a draft, your agent writes only the cut, its notes and the banner file, plus graphics when the project has a Style, all inside the project. It never touches your recording or the transcript. You can keep the project open while it works: Sashimii reloads the files when they change, and keeps your unsaved changes on top.

Then Review It

Open the project (it may already be open) and work through the draft: Finding Your Way Around, then Reviewing Joins. Notes your agent left show in teal; yours show in gold.

To send more work back, leave notes and use the agent queue: Notes and Directions.

Connect Your Agent

Optional: the skill works without it. A connected agent can wait while setup runs and start the moment it finishes, and Sashimii shows it as connected.

sashimii register claude-code codex registers Sashimii’s server with Claude Code, Codex or both, in each one’s user settings. It changes nothing else, and it never takes over a Sashimii entry it didn’t write: it says so and prints the commands instead. sashimii register manual only prints the commands, for you to run yourself.

Registered isn’t the same as connected: the agent connects when it next starts.

Graphics

When a note asks for something on screen, such as text, a lower third or a chapter title, your agent can build it as a graphic in the project. See Edit View and Graphics and Styles.