{
  "slug": "tavus",
  "name": "Tavus MCP",
  "vendor": "Community (rakeshdavid)",
  "official": false,
  "category": "avatars-performance",
  "featured": false,
  "tagline": "Phoenix replicas, persona videos, lipsync, and conversational AI via the Tavus API.",
  "description": "Comprehensive community MCP server exposing 25 tools across the full Tavus API: Phoenix replica (digital twin) training, persona management, video generation, real-time conversational video (CVI), lipsync, and speech synthesis. Tavus has no first-party MCP server; this is the most complete open implementation.",
  "capabilities": [
    "digital-twin",
    "avatar-video",
    "conversational-video",
    "lip-sync",
    "tts"
  ],
  "tools_sample": [
    "create_replica",
    "generate_video",
    "create_conversation",
    "create_persona",
    "create_lipsync",
    "generate_speech"
  ],
  "install": {
    "claude_code": null,
    "remote_url": null,
    "stdio_command": "Build from source: clone rakeshdavid/Tavus-MCP, npm install && npm run build, then run node build/index.js with TAVUS_API_KEY"
  },
  "auth": {
    "type": "api_key",
    "env_var": "TAVUS_API_KEY",
    "key_url": "https://platform.tavus.io"
  },
  "pricing": "freemium",
  "links": {
    "repo": "https://github.com/rakeshdavid/Tavus-MCP",
    "docs": "https://docs.tavus.io",
    "site": "https://www.tavus.io"
  },
  "added": "2026-06-11",
  "verified": "2026-06-11",
  "notes": "Install caveat: the README's npm package (tavus-mcp) is NOT actually on npm — install from source or via Smithery. Tavus free developer plan: ~25 min conversational video + 5 min generation. Built on an old MCP SDK version."
}