{
  "$schema": "https://mcp.film/api/schema.json",
  "name": "mcp.film",
  "description": "A curated, agent-readable directory of the best Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers for generative AI filmmaking — video generation, voice, music, editing, upscaling, distribution, and the full production stack.",
  "updated": "2026-06-11T07:00:35.155Z",
  "count": 56,
  "categories": [
    {
      "id": "studio",
      "name": "Full-Stack AI Studios",
      "short": "Studios",
      "icon": "clapper",
      "stage": "shoot",
      "blurb": "End-to-end AI film production platforms — generate, organize, and finish entire productions from one MCP connection.",
      "agent_hint": "Start here if you want one connection that covers generation, character consistency, shot organization, and editing."
    },
    {
      "id": "video-generation",
      "name": "Video Generation",
      "short": "Video",
      "icon": "camera",
      "stage": "shoot",
      "blurb": "Text-to-video and image-to-video models — the virtual cameras of AI filmmaking.",
      "agent_hint": "Use these to generate shots. Check duration limits, resolution, and whether image-to-video is supported for shot continuity."
    },
    {
      "id": "image-generation",
      "name": "Image Generation",
      "short": "Image",
      "icon": "frame",
      "stage": "visualize",
      "blurb": "Stills, concept frames, storyboards, and start frames for image-to-video pipelines.",
      "agent_hint": "Generate keyframes and reference images here, then feed them to video models as start/end frames."
    },
    {
      "id": "model-hub",
      "name": "Model Hubs",
      "short": "Hubs",
      "icon": "grid",
      "stage": "shoot",
      "blurb": "Aggregators exposing hundreds of hosted models — video, image, and audio — through a single MCP connection.",
      "agent_hint": "One key, many models. Best when you need a model that has no first-party MCP server."
    },
    {
      "id": "voice-speech",
      "name": "Voice & Dialogue",
      "short": "Voice",
      "icon": "mic",
      "stage": "sound",
      "blurb": "Text-to-speech, voice cloning, and emotionally directed performance for dialogue and narration.",
      "agent_hint": "For dialogue and narration. Look for voice cloning if you need character consistency across scenes."
    },
    {
      "id": "music",
      "name": "Music & Score",
      "short": "Music",
      "icon": "note",
      "stage": "sound",
      "blurb": "Generative soundtracks, songs, and score composition.",
      "agent_hint": "Score and songs. Mind licensing terms — some services are unofficial wrappers without commercial-rights guarantees."
    },
    {
      "id": "sound-design",
      "name": "Sound Design & SFX",
      "short": "SFX",
      "icon": "wave",
      "stage": "sound",
      "blurb": "Sound effects generation, library search, and audio cleanup for the final mix.",
      "agent_hint": "Foley and ambience. Combine generative SFX with licensed-library search for the best coverage."
    },
    {
      "id": "transcription",
      "name": "Transcription & Captions",
      "short": "Captions",
      "icon": "text",
      "stage": "cut",
      "blurb": "Speech-to-text, diarization, and dialogue logging for edits, subtitles, and accessibility.",
      "agent_hint": "Transcribe dailies and generate caption files. Diarization matters for multi-character scenes."
    },
    {
      "id": "editing-post",
      "name": "Editing & Post",
      "short": "Edit",
      "icon": "scissors",
      "stage": "cut",
      "blurb": "NLE control (DaVinci Resolve, Premiere), programmatic editing, ffmpeg, and render pipelines.",
      "agent_hint": "Assemble and cut. Local NLE servers need the app running on the same machine as your agent."
    },
    {
      "id": "enhancement",
      "name": "Upscaling & Enhancement",
      "short": "Finish",
      "icon": "sparkle",
      "stage": "finish",
      "blurb": "Video upscaling, frame interpolation, denoising, and image enhancement — the finishing suite.",
      "agent_hint": "Final-quality pass. Upscale delivery masters, not working files — it is slow and credit-hungry."
    },
    {
      "id": "3d-vfx",
      "name": "3D, Worlds & VFX",
      "short": "3D/VFX",
      "icon": "cube",
      "stage": "shoot",
      "blurb": "Blender, game engines, 3D asset generation, and node-based VFX workflows.",
      "agent_hint": "Build sets, props, and previs. Most of these control a local app that must be running."
    },
    {
      "id": "avatars-performance",
      "name": "Avatars & Performance",
      "short": "Avatars",
      "icon": "person",
      "stage": "shoot",
      "blurb": "Talking avatars, lip-sync, and digital performers.",
      "agent_hint": "Presenter-style and character performance video. Check lip-sync language support."
    },
    {
      "id": "story-preproduction",
      "name": "Story & Pre-Production",
      "short": "Story",
      "icon": "book",
      "stage": "develop",
      "blurb": "Screenwriting, storyboarding, and planning tools for the development phase.",
      "agent_hint": "Develop the script and boards before spending generation credits."
    },
    {
      "id": "distribution",
      "name": "Review & Distribution",
      "short": "Ship",
      "icon": "send",
      "stage": "ship",
      "blurb": "Publishing to YouTube and Vimeo, review and approval, and video hosting infrastructure.",
      "agent_hint": "Get the film out. Upload servers usually need OAuth set up once by a human."
    },
    {
      "id": "production-ops",
      "name": "Production Ops",
      "short": "Ops",
      "icon": "board",
      "stage": "ship",
      "blurb": "Production tracking, asset management, and file storage for film teams.",
      "agent_hint": "The production office: trackers, docs, and media storage your agent can read and write."
    }
  ],
  "servers": [
    {
      "slug": "premiere-pro",
      "name": "Adobe Premiere Pro MCP",
      "vendor": "Community (hetpatel-11)",
      "official": false,
      "category": "editing-post",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Drive Premiere Pro timelines, effects, and exports from your agent via a CEP bridge.",
      "description": "97-tool MCP server that controls Premiere Pro through a CEP extension bridge: import media, edit sequences, apply effects and transitions, and export. Lets an agent do real NLE assembly inside the editor filmmakers already use.",
      "capabilities": [
        "nle-control",
        "timeline-editing",
        "effects",
        "render",
        "media-management"
      ],
      "tools_sample": [
        "import_media",
        "apply_effect",
        "add_transition",
        "get_sequences",
        "get_active_sequence",
        "export_sequence"
      ],
      "install": {
        "claude_code": null,
        "remote_url": null,
        "stdio_command": null
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "local-app",
        "env_var": null,
        "key_url": "Requires Premiere Pro 2020+ running with the bundled 'MCP Bridge' CEP extension"
      },
      "pricing": "free",
      "links": {
        "repo": "https://github.com/hetpatel-11/Adobe_Premiere_Pro_MCP",
        "docs": null,
        "site": null
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "272 stars, active through Jun 2026, MIT — the most-starred Premiere MCP (Adobe has no official one). Install is git clone + npm setup; macOS is the primary platform. Newer alternative: leancoderkavy/premiere-pro-mcp (269 tools)."
    },
    {
      "slug": "after-effects",
      "name": "After Effects MCP",
      "vendor": "Community (Dakkshin)",
      "official": false,
      "category": "editing-post",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Automate After Effects comps, layers, and keyframes through MCP + ExtendScript.",
      "description": "MCP server that remote-controls Adobe After Effects: create compositions, text/shape/solid layers, cameras, masks, keyframes, and expressions. Useful for agent-driven motion graphics, titles, and VFX passes on generated footage.",
      "capabilities": [
        "motion-graphics",
        "compositing",
        "animation",
        "nle-control"
      ],
      "tools_sample": [
        "create-composition",
        "setLayerKeyframe",
        "setLayerProperties",
        "createCamera",
        "setLayerMask"
      ],
      "install": {
        "claude_code": null,
        "remote_url": null,
        "stdio_command": null
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "local-app",
        "env_var": null,
        "key_url": "Requires After Effects 2022+ with the 'mcp-bridge-auto' panel open"
      },
      "pricing": "free",
      "links": {
        "repo": "https://github.com/Dakkshin/after-effects-mcp",
        "docs": null,
        "site": null
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "416 stars, MIT, active Jun 2026 — the most popular AE MCP. Install: git clone, npm install/build, install-bridge. For template-based AE rendering in the cloud, see plainly-videos/mcp-server (official Plainly API MCP)."
    },
    {
      "slug": "airtable",
      "name": "Airtable MCP Server",
      "vendor": "Airtable",
      "official": true,
      "category": "production-ops",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Official hosted Airtable MCP: query, create, and update production-tracking bases.",
      "description": "Airtable's official remote MCP server lets agents search bases, read schemas, filter/sort records, create and update rows, and read interface pages — ideal for shot trackers, casting sheets, asset libraries, and budgets. OAuth via Dynamic Client Registration (or a personal access token), and it enforces each user's existing Airtable permissions.",
      "capabilities": [
        "base-search",
        "schema-inspection",
        "record-crud",
        "record-search",
        "comments",
        "table-creation",
        "interface-pages"
      ],
      "tools_sample": [
        "search_bases",
        "list_tables_for_base",
        "get_table_schema",
        "list_records_for_table",
        "search_records",
        "create_records_for_table",
        "update_records_for_table",
        "create_table"
      ],
      "install": {
        "claude_code": "claude mcp add --transport http airtable https://mcp.airtable.com/mcp",
        "remote_url": "https://mcp.airtable.com/mcp",
        "stdio_command": null
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "oauth",
        "env_var": null,
        "key_url": "OAuth browser flow (primary); PATs also supported at https://airtable.com/create/tokens"
      },
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "links": {
        "repo": null,
        "docs": "https://support.airtable.com/docs/using-the-airtable-mcp-server",
        "site": "https://www.airtable.com"
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "Tool names verified directly against the live official server. Permissions-aware (read-only access stays read-only via MCP). Community stdio alternative: domdomegg/airtable-mcp-server (447 stars, npx airtable-mcp-server with a PAT)."
    },
    {
      "slug": "audiogen",
      "name": "AudioGen MCP",
      "vendor": "Community (peerjakobsen)",
      "official": false,
      "category": "sound-design",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Free, local sound-effect generation with Meta's AudioGen — no API key needed.",
      "description": "Community MCP server that runs Meta's AudioGen (AudioCraft) locally to generate sound effects from text descriptions, with async job tracking. Attractive for filmmakers who want unlimited, offline, no-cost SFX drafts without sending prompts to a cloud API; the model (~2GB) downloads from Hugging Face on first run.",
      "capabilities": [
        "sfx",
        "local-inference",
        "job-queue"
      ],
      "tools_sample": [
        "generate_sound_effect",
        "check_generation_status",
        "list_generated_sounds"
      ],
      "install": {
        "claude_code": null,
        "remote_url": null,
        "stdio_command": null
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "none",
        "env_var": null,
        "key_url": "No key needed; model auto-downloads from Hugging Face Hub"
      },
      "pricing": "free",
      "links": {
        "repo": "https://github.com/peerjakobsen/audiogen-mcp",
        "docs": null,
        "site": null
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "Very early stage (v0.1.0, Jan 2026), Apple Silicon only, manual Python 3.11 venv setup required. For higher-quality cloud SFX, prefer ElevenLabs text_to_sound_effects or CassetteAI SFX via the fal MCP."
    },
    {
      "slug": "auphonic-zapier",
      "name": "Auphonic (via Zapier MCP)",
      "vendor": "Auphonic / Zapier",
      "official": false,
      "category": "sound-design",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Auphonic's AI audio post (loudness, leveling, denoise) reachable through Zapier MCP.",
      "description": "Auphonic is the de facto automated audio post-production service — loudness normalization to broadcast specs, speech leveling, denoising, de-essing, and filler-word cutting. It has no first-party MCP server; Zapier's hosted MCP exposes Auphonic actions to agents, making it the verified route for agent-driven dialogue cleanup and final-mix loudness compliance.",
      "capabilities": [
        "audio-cleanup",
        "loudness-normalization",
        "denoising",
        "leveling",
        "mastering"
      ],
      "tools_sample": null,
      "install": {
        "claude_code": null,
        "remote_url": null,
        "stdio_command": null
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "oauth",
        "env_var": null,
        "key_url": "Zapier account + Auphonic connection; per-user MCP endpoint generated in the Zapier MCP dashboard"
      },
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "links": {
        "repo": null,
        "docs": "https://auphonic.com/help/",
        "site": "https://zapier.com/mcp/auphonic"
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "A generic Zapier MCP wrapper, not a dedicated audio MCP — tool granularity depends on Zapier's Auphonic actions, and the endpoint URL is per-user. Auphonic offers 2 free processing hours/month. Listed because audio cleanup/mastering otherwise has no notable dedicated MCP as of June 2026 (ElevenLabs isolate_audio is the nearest alternative for dialogue denoise)."
    },
    {
      "slug": "blender",
      "name": "Blender MCP",
      "vendor": "Community (ahujasid)",
      "official": false,
      "category": "3d-vfx",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "The canonical Blender MCP — model, texture, and assemble 3D scenes by prompt.",
      "description": "Two-way bridge between AI agents and Blender: inspect scenes, create/modify objects and materials, and execute arbitrary Python in Blender. With Poly Haven, Sketchfab, and Hyper3D Rodin integrations, an agent can pull assets and build previz sets or full shots.",
      "capabilities": [
        "3d-scene-control",
        "asset-import",
        "python-scripting",
        "render",
        "previz"
      ],
      "tools_sample": [
        "execute_blender_code"
      ],
      "install": {
        "claude_code": "claude mcp add blender -- uvx blender-mcp",
        "remote_url": null,
        "stdio_command": "uvx blender-mcp"
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "local-app",
        "env_var": null,
        "key_url": "Requires Blender 3.0+ running with the bundled addon installed and its socket server started"
      },
      "pricing": "free",
      "links": {
        "repo": "https://github.com/ahujasid/blender-mcp",
        "docs": null,
        "site": null
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "22.6k stars — by far the most popular DCC MCP; v1.5.5, pushed Jun 2026, MIT. execute_blender_code runs arbitrary Python — save your work first. Telemetry on by default (disable via DISABLE_TELEMETRY). Asset integrations: Poly Haven (free), Sketchfab, Hyper3D Rodin."
    },
    {
      "slug": "capcut",
      "name": "CapCut MCP",
      "vendor": "Community (fancyboi999)",
      "official": false,
      "category": "editing-post",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Build CapCut/Jianying draft projects programmatically from an AI agent.",
      "description": "Python server exposing CapCut draft creation over HTTP/MCP: add video, audio, images, text, subtitles, effects, and stickers, then save as a draft folder that opens in CapCut for finishing. Lets agents pre-assemble social edits that humans polish in CapCut.",
      "capabilities": [
        "nle-control",
        "draft-generation",
        "captioning",
        "effects"
      ],
      "tools_sample": [
        "create_draft",
        "add_video",
        "add_audio",
        "add_text",
        "add_subtitle",
        "add_effect",
        "save_draft"
      ],
      "install": {
        "claude_code": null,
        "remote_url": null,
        "stdio_command": null
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "none",
        "env_var": null,
        "key_url": null
      },
      "pricing": "free",
      "links": {
        "repo": "https://github.com/fancyboi999/capcut-mcp",
        "docs": null,
        "site": null
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "84 stars, active Jun 2026; no official ByteDance MCP exists. Workflow caveat: generated draft folders must be manually copied into CapCut's drafts directory; needs ffmpeg + Python 3.8; docs partly Chinese; no license file."
    },
    {
      "slug": "cartesia",
      "name": "Cartesia MCP",
      "vendor": "Cartesia",
      "official": true,
      "category": "voice-speech",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Official Cartesia (Sonic) server: low-latency TTS, voice cloning, infill, localization.",
      "description": "Cartesia's official MCP server exposes its Sonic voice stack: TTS, speech-to-text, voice cloning, voice changing, and notably audio infill (generate speech between two existing clips) and voice localization into other languages. Strong for ADR-style dialogue patching and localizing a character's voice across language versions.",
      "capabilities": [
        "tts",
        "stt",
        "voice-cloning",
        "voice-changing",
        "infill",
        "localization"
      ],
      "tools_sample": [
        "text_to_speech",
        "speech_to_text",
        "list_voices",
        "clone_voice",
        "voice_change",
        "localize_voice",
        "infill",
        "get_credit_usage"
      ],
      "install": {
        "claude_code": "claude mcp add cartesia -e CARTESIA_API_KEY=YOUR_KEY -- uvx cartesia-mcp",
        "remote_url": null,
        "stdio_command": "uvx cartesia-mcp"
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "api_key",
        "env_var": "CARTESIA_API_KEY",
        "key_url": "https://play.cartesia.ai/keys"
      },
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "links": {
        "repo": "https://github.com/cartesia-ai/cartesia-mcp",
        "docs": "https://docs.cartesia.ai/tools/ai/mcp",
        "site": "https://www.cartesia.ai"
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "Officially supported, on PyPI as cartesia-mcp; ~16 tools. Optional CARTESIA_ADMIN_API_KEY enables account-management tools; OUTPUT_DIRECTORY controls where audio is saved."
    },
    {
      "slug": "comfyui",
      "name": "ComfyUI MCP",
      "vendor": "Community (shawnrushefsky)",
      "official": false,
      "category": "model-hub",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Drive a local ComfyUI: 40+ tools for image, video, audio and 3D workflows.",
      "description": "Connects agents to a local or remote ComfyUI instance with 40+ tools for running, validating, composing and managing node workflows, plus 70+ bundled example workflows (FLUX, SDXL, SD3.5, ControlNet, LTX-Video, Mochi, AnimateDiff, Stable Audio). The free/local route for filmmakers who own GPUs and want full pipeline control, including open video models.",
      "capabilities": [
        "text-to-image",
        "image-to-image",
        "text-to-video",
        "audio-generation",
        "3d-generation",
        "workflow-execution",
        "local-inference"
      ],
      "tools_sample": [
        "run_workflow",
        "validate_workflow",
        "search_templates",
        "get_example_workflow",
        "build_node",
        "list_models",
        "get_queue",
        "recommend_workflow"
      ],
      "install": {
        "claude_code": null,
        "remote_url": null,
        "stdio_command": "docker run -i --rm --pull always -e COMFYUI_URL=http://host.docker.internal:8000 ghcr.io/shawnrushefsky/comfyui-mcp:latest"
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "none",
        "env_var": "COMFYUI_URL",
        "key_url": "Points at your own ComfyUI instance (default port 8188) — no cloud account needed"
      },
      "pricing": "free",
      "links": {
        "repo": "https://github.com/shawnrushefsky/comfyui-mcp",
        "docs": null,
        "site": "https://www.comfy.org"
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "MIT; the most comprehensive ComfyUI MCP. Notable alternatives: artokun/comfyui-mcp (Claude Code plugin with slash commands/skills) and joenorton/comfyui-mcp-server (lightweight Python). Requires you to run ComfyUI yourself."
    },
    {
      "slug": "comfyui-artokun",
      "name": "ComfyUI MCP (Claude Code plugin)",
      "vendor": "Community (artokun)",
      "official": false,
      "category": "3d-vfx",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Run and debug ComfyUI workflows from Claude Code — generate, validate, manage VRAM.",
      "description": "TypeScript MCP server + Claude Code plugin for ComfyUI: execute and validate workflows, visualize node graphs, search and download models, and manage GPU memory. The glue for agentic VFX pipelines built on ComfyUI (img2img cleanup, style passes, video nodes).",
      "capabilities": [
        "workflow-execution",
        "image-generation",
        "vfx-pipeline",
        "model-management"
      ],
      "tools_sample": [
        "generate_image",
        "enqueue_workflow",
        "visualize_workflow",
        "search_models",
        "validate_workflow",
        "clear_vram"
      ],
      "install": {
        "claude_code": "claude plugin install comfyui-mcp",
        "remote_url": null,
        "stdio_command": "npx -y comfyui-mcp"
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "local-app",
        "env_var": null,
        "key_url": "Requires ComfyUI running (auto-detects ports 8188/8000, or --comfyui-url for remote)"
      },
      "pricing": "free",
      "links": {
        "repo": "https://github.com/artokun/comfyui-mcp",
        "docs": null,
        "site": null
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "142 stars, v0.9.4 (Jun 2026), MIT, very active; needs Node >=22. Most-starred Python alternative: joenorton/comfyui-mcp-server (350 stars); comfy-pilot (207 stars) focuses on workflow editing."
    },
    {
      "slug": "d-id",
      "name": "D-ID MCP Server",
      "vendor": "D-ID",
      "official": true,
      "category": "avatars-performance",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "D-ID's hosted MCP connecting agents to the D-ID API and docs for avatar video.",
      "description": "D-ID hosts an official remote MCP server on its developer docs that lets MCP clients interact with the D-ID API and its documentation for talking-avatar and Agents workflows. D-ID also publishes llms.txt for agent consumption.",
      "capabilities": [
        "avatar-video",
        "talking-head",
        "docs-search",
        "agents-api"
      ],
      "tools_sample": null,
      "install": {
        "claude_code": "claude mcp add --transport http d-id https://docs.d-id.com/mcp",
        "remote_url": "https://docs.d-id.com/mcp",
        "stdio_command": null
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "api_key",
        "env_var": null,
        "key_url": "https://docs.d-id.com/docs/api-keys (D-ID Studio; credits required for API calls)"
      },
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "links": {
        "repo": null,
        "docs": "https://docs.d-id.com/docs/mcp",
        "site": "https://www.d-id.com"
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "Docs-platform-hosted (ReadMe-powered) remote MCP; exact tool list not published openly. Landscape note: Synthesia has no official MCP as of June 2026 (only marginal community wrappers and generic Zapier/viaSocket gateways)."
    },
    {
      "slug": "davinci-resolve",
      "name": "DaVinci Resolve MCP",
      "vendor": "Community (samuelgursky)",
      "official": false,
      "category": "editing-post",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Full AI control of DaVinci Resolve Studio — edit, grade, Fusion, and render via scripting.",
      "description": "MCP server built on Resolve's official Scripting API covering project management, media pool, timeline editing, color grading, Fusion comps, Fairlight audio, and the render queue. The most mature NLE MCP available — a filmmaker-agent can conform timelines, apply grades, and kick off renders without touching the GUI.",
      "capabilities": [
        "nle-control",
        "timeline-editing",
        "color-grading",
        "compositing",
        "render",
        "media-management"
      ],
      "tools_sample": null,
      "install": {
        "claude_code": null,
        "remote_url": null,
        "stdio_command": "npx davinci-resolve-mcp setup"
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "local-app",
        "env_var": null,
        "key_url": "Requires DaVinci Resolve Studio running locally with External Scripting set to Local"
      },
      "pricing": "free",
      "links": {
        "repo": "https://github.com/samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp",
        "docs": null,
        "site": null
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "~1.2k stars, v2.45.0 (Jun 2026), 78 releases, MIT; 331/336 Resolve API methods live-tested. Requires Resolve STUDIO 18.5+ (the free edition lacks external scripting) and Python 3.10-3.12. The setup wizard auto-configures Claude Desktop/Cursor/VS Code."
    },
    {
      "slug": "deepgram",
      "name": "Deepgram MCP",
      "vendor": "Deepgram",
      "official": true,
      "category": "transcription",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Official Deepgram server: Nova transcription, diarization, and audio intelligence.",
      "description": "Deepgram's official MCP server gives agents access to its speech platform — fast, accurate transcription with speaker diarization plus audio-intelligence features, with tools fetched dynamically from the API at runtime so new capabilities appear without upgrades. For film work it handles dailies and interview transcription and dialogue logging at production scale.",
      "capabilities": [
        "transcription",
        "diarization",
        "audio-intelligence",
        "tts"
      ],
      "tools_sample": null,
      "install": {
        "claude_code": "claude mcp add deepgram -e DEEPGRAM_API_KEY=YOUR_KEY -- deepgram-mcp",
        "remote_url": null,
        "stdio_command": "deepgram-mcp (after `pip install deepgram-mcp`; also bundled with the Deepgram CLI as `dg mcp`)"
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "api_key",
        "env_var": "DEEPGRAM_API_KEY",
        "key_url": "https://console.deepgram.com (free signup credit)"
      },
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "links": {
        "repo": "https://github.com/deepgram/mcp",
        "docs": "https://developers.deepgram.com",
        "site": "https://deepgram.com"
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "Official but young (v0.1.1, Apr 2026). Tool list is fetched from Deepgram's API at runtime; an SSE HTTP mode exists (`deepgram-mcp --transport sse`). Note: AssemblyAI's only official MCP is a docs server, not transcription — Deepgram is the strongest official cloud-STT MCP."
    },
    {
      "slug": "dropbox",
      "name": "Dropbox MCP Server",
      "vendor": "Dropbox",
      "official": true,
      "category": "production-ops",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Dropbox's official remote MCP (beta) for dailies, footage folders, and file ops.",
      "description": "Dropbox's hosted MCP server (beta) connects agents to Dropbox files and folders with OAuth: list, search, upload, download, move, copy, delete, and share, plus content fetch for drafting and summarization. Supports Dynamic Client Registration for trusted clients like Claude and Cursor.",
      "capabilities": [
        "file-search",
        "upload-download",
        "file-ops",
        "sharing-links",
        "content-fetch"
      ],
      "tools_sample": null,
      "install": {
        "claude_code": "claude mcp add --transport http dropbox https://mcp.dropbox.com/mcp",
        "remote_url": "https://mcp.dropbox.com/mcp",
        "stdio_command": null
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "oauth",
        "env_var": null,
        "key_url": "Dropbox OAuth consent via mcp.dropbox.com"
      },
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "links": {
        "repo": null,
        "docs": "https://help.dropbox.com/integrations/connect-dropbox-mcp-server",
        "site": "https://www.dropbox.com"
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "Beta; exact tool names not published on the public help page. A separate official Dash MCP exists for enterprise search (dropbox/mcp-server-dash). Community Go alternative for classic file access: ngs/dropbox-mcp-server (brew install dropbox-mcp-server)."
    },
    {
      "slug": "elevenlabs",
      "name": "ElevenLabs MCP",
      "vendor": "ElevenLabs",
      "official": true,
      "category": "voice-speech",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Official ElevenLabs server: TTS, voice cloning, SFX, music, and dialogue isolation.",
      "description": "The official ElevenLabs MCP server exposes the full audio platform: text-to-speech with thousands of voices, voice cloning and design, text-to-sound-effects, Eleven Music composition, transcription, and audio isolation. For a filmmaker-agent it covers dialogue, SFX, and score from a single API key — the most complete one-stop audio MCP for a film pipeline.",
      "capabilities": [
        "tts",
        "voice-cloning",
        "voice-design",
        "sfx",
        "music",
        "transcription",
        "audio-isolation",
        "speech-to-speech"
      ],
      "tools_sample": [
        "text_to_speech",
        "speech_to_text",
        "text_to_sound_effects",
        "voice_clone",
        "text_to_voice",
        "isolate_audio",
        "compose_music",
        "create_composition_plan",
        "search_voice_library",
        "play_audio"
      ],
      "install": {
        "claude_code": "claude mcp add elevenlabs -e ELEVENLABS_API_KEY=YOUR_KEY -- uvx elevenlabs-mcp",
        "remote_url": null,
        "stdio_command": "uvx elevenlabs-mcp"
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "api_key",
        "env_var": "ELEVENLABS_API_KEY",
        "key_url": "ElevenLabs dashboard at elevenlabs.io (free tier: 10k credits/month)"
      },
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "links": {
        "repo": "https://github.com/elevenlabs/elevenlabs-mcp",
        "docs": "https://elevenlabs.io/blog/introducing-elevenlabs-mcp",
        "site": "https://elevenlabs.io"
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "Actively maintained (v0.9.1, Jan 2026, ~1.4k stars); also published as Docker image mcp/elevenlabs and on PyPI. Optional env: ELEVENLABS_MCP_BASE_PATH, ELEVENLABS_MCP_OUTPUT_MODE, ELEVENLABS_API_RESIDENCY. Local stdio only — no hosted remote MCP as of June 2026."
    },
    {
      "slug": "fal",
      "name": "fal MCP Server",
      "vendor": "fal.ai",
      "official": true,
      "category": "model-hub",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "One hosted endpoint to search, run and chain 1,000+ image, video and audio models.",
      "description": "fal's official stateless MCP server gives agents the entire fal platform: discover models, read schemas and pricing, run inference, submit async jobs and upload files. For filmmakers it is the broadest single gateway — Veo, Kling, LTX-2, Hailuo, FLUX, Ideogram, plus audio like Stable Audio 2.5, CassetteAI SFX and Beatoven — behind one connector.",
      "capabilities": [
        "text-to-video",
        "image-to-video",
        "text-to-image",
        "image-editing",
        "music",
        "sfx",
        "tts",
        "transcription",
        "model-search",
        "file-upload",
        "async-jobs"
      ],
      "tools_sample": [
        "search_models",
        "get_model_schema",
        "get_pricing",
        "run_model",
        "submit_job",
        "check_job"
      ],
      "install": {
        "claude_code": "claude mcp add --transport http fal https://mcp.fal.ai/mcp --header \"Authorization: Bearer YOUR_FAL_KEY\"",
        "remote_url": "https://mcp.fal.ai/mcp",
        "stdio_command": null
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "api_key",
        "env_var": "FAL_KEY",
        "key_url": "fal.ai dashboard → API Keys (sent as Authorization: Bearer header, never stored server-side)"
      },
      "pricing": "credits",
      "links": {
        "repo": null,
        "docs": "https://docs.fal.ai/model-apis/mcp",
        "site": "https://fal.ai"
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "Hosted and fully stateless; the MCP itself is free, you pay standard fal per-run pricing. Arguably the best single 'everything' server for a generative film pipeline, and the practical MCP route to models with no first-party server (LTX-2, Stable Audio, CassetteAI, Beatoven)."
    },
    {
      "slug": "ffmpeg",
      "name": "FFmpeg MCP",
      "vendor": "Community (video-creator)",
      "official": false,
      "category": "editing-post",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Conversational FFmpeg: trim, concat, overlay, scale, and extract frames locally.",
      "description": "Wraps the FFmpeg CLI as MCP tools for finding, probing, cutting, merging, compositing, and resizing local video files. The workhorse for agent-side post tasks on generated clips — no cloud upload, no credits.",
      "capabilities": [
        "transcode",
        "trim-concat",
        "overlay",
        "frame-extraction",
        "media-probe"
      ],
      "tools_sample": [
        "find_video_path",
        "get_video_info",
        "clip_video",
        "concat_videos",
        "overlay_video",
        "scale_video",
        "extract_frames_from_video"
      ],
      "install": {
        "claude_code": null,
        "remote_url": null,
        "stdio_command": "uv --directory /path/to/ffmpeg-mcp run ffmpeg-mcp (after cloning the repo)"
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "none",
        "env_var": null,
        "key_url": null
      },
      "pricing": "free",
      "links": {
        "repo": "https://github.com/video-creator/ffmpeg-mcp",
        "docs": null,
        "site": null
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "134 stars, pushed May 2026 — the best-maintained ffmpeg MCP (egoist/ffmpeg-mcp is dormant since Mar 2025). Caveat: README states macOS only. Cross-platform lighter alternatives: kevinwatt/ffmpeg-mcp-lite and KyaniteLabs/mcp-video (guardrailed, active Jun 2026)."
    },
    {
      "slug": "flux-bfl",
      "name": "FLUX MCP",
      "vendor": "Black Forest Labs",
      "official": true,
      "category": "image-generation",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Official BFL server: FLUX.2 text-to-image, editing, multi-reference and variations.",
      "description": "Black Forest Labs' official hosted MCP exposes the FLUX.2 toolkit — generation, image editing, multi-reference composition, variations and history — with automatic routing to the right model (Klein for sub-second drafts up to Max for production assets). For filmmakers it is a top-tier stills, concept-art and frame-editing engine inside any agent.",
      "capabilities": [
        "text-to-image",
        "image-editing",
        "multi-reference-composition",
        "variations",
        "generation-history"
      ],
      "tools_sample": [
        "generate_image",
        "generate_variations",
        "get_history",
        "get_credits"
      ],
      "install": {
        "claude_code": "claude mcp add --transport http flux https://mcp.bfl.ai",
        "remote_url": "https://mcp.bfl.ai",
        "stdio_command": "npx -y mcp-remote https://mcp.bfl.ai"
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "oauth",
        "env_var": null,
        "key_url": "OAuth-only: sign in with your BFL account and pick a billing org; tokens auto-refresh"
      },
      "pricing": "credits",
      "links": {
        "repo": "https://github.com/black-forest-labs/flux-mcp",
        "docs": "https://docs.bfl.ml/api_integration/mcp_integration",
        "site": "https://bfl.ai"
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "Models: flux2_pro_preview (default), flux2_max, flux2_klein variants, flux2_flex (typography). generate_image batches 1-8 images in parallel. Pricing at bfl.ai/pricing."
    },
    {
      "slug": "frameio",
      "name": "Frame.io MCP (community plugin)",
      "vendor": "Community (bowlofarugula)",
      "official": false,
      "category": "distribution",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "74 tools for Frame.io V4 review workflows — comments, shares, versions, uploads.",
      "description": "Python MCP server for the Frame.io v4 API packaged as a Claude Code plugin: browse workspaces and projects, upload/download footage, leave timestamped review comments, create client review links, manage version stacks, apply metadata in bulk, and manage webhooks. Review-and-approval is the connective tissue of film delivery, and this is currently the most complete MCP for it.",
      "capabilities": [
        "review-comments",
        "share-links",
        "version-stacks",
        "asset-upload",
        "metadata",
        "webhooks"
      ],
      "tools_sample": null,
      "install": {
        "claude_code": "/plugin marketplace add bowlofarugula/frameio-plugins, then /plugin install frameio-mcp@frameio-plugins",
        "remote_url": null,
        "stdio_command": "uvx frameio-mcp serve"
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "oauth",
        "env_var": null,
        "key_url": "Adobe OAuth (browser one-time login); requires a Frame.io account linked to an Adobe ID"
      },
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "links": {
        "repo": "https://github.com/bowlofarugula/frameio-plugins",
        "docs": null,
        "site": "https://frame.io"
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "Brand new (Jun 2026), Apache-2.0, unproven but functional-looking. Adobe ships no polished official Frame.io MCP — the auto-generated 'V4 Developer MCP Server' on the API docs reportedly gets stuck loading tools with IMS auth issues. Watch this space."
    },
    {
      "slug": "freesound",
      "name": "Freesound MCP Server",
      "vendor": "Community (johnkimdw)",
      "official": false,
      "category": "sound-design",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Search freesound.org's 600k+ CC-licensed sounds by natural language for SFX pulls.",
      "description": "Community MCP server for the Freesound.org API: agents search real recorded sound effects, ambiences, and loops with natural-language queries and get back duration, tags, license info, and preview URLs. For a film pipeline this covers the classic library-pull workflow ('thunder for a storm scene, under 30s') with proper license metadata, complementing generative SFX tools.",
      "capabilities": [
        "sfx-search",
        "audio-metadata",
        "license-info",
        "preview-urls"
      ],
      "tools_sample": [
        "search_sounds"
      ],
      "install": {
        "claude_code": null,
        "remote_url": null,
        "stdio_command": "uv run freesound-mcp (after cloning the repo and `uv sync`)"
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "api_key",
        "env_var": "FREESOUND_API_KEY",
        "key_url": "https://freesound.org/api/apply/"
      },
      "pricing": "free",
      "links": {
        "repo": "https://github.com/johnkimdw/freesound-mcp-server",
        "docs": null,
        "site": "https://freesound.org"
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "MIT, small, search-only (no in-tool download); install from source or Docker. Alternatives: MuShan-bit/freesound-mcp (adds download by sound ID) and timjrobinson/FreesoundMCPServer (Node.js). Check individual sound licenses (some CC-BY/NC) before use in a film."
    },
    {
      "slug": "google-drive",
      "name": "Google Drive MCP",
      "vendor": "Google",
      "official": true,
      "category": "production-ops",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Google's official remote Drive MCP: search, read, and create files with Workspace governance.",
      "description": "A first-party hosted MCP endpoint from the Drive API team that lets agents search files, read content as a natural-language representation, retrieve metadata, and create/download files — inheriting the user's Drive permissions and Workspace data governance. The production file server for dailies, exports, and shared media.",
      "capabilities": [
        "file-search",
        "file-read",
        "file-create",
        "metadata",
        "permission-aware"
      ],
      "tools_sample": [
        "search_files",
        "read_file_content"
      ],
      "install": {
        "claude_code": "claude mcp add --transport http google-drive https://drivemcp.googleapis.com/mcp/v1",
        "remote_url": "https://drivemcp.googleapis.com/mcp/v1",
        "stdio_command": null
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "oauth",
        "env_var": null,
        "key_url": "Bring your own Google Cloud OAuth client (consent screen + client ID/secret) — see the configure-mcp-server guide"
      },
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "links": {
        "repo": null,
        "docs": "https://developers.google.com/workspace/drive/api/guides/configure-mcp-server",
        "site": "https://drive.google.com"
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "Part of the Google Workspace Developer Preview Program — flag as preview. The old Anthropic reference gdrive server is archived; don't use it. Broader community alternative covering Docs/Sheets/Slides/Gmail too: taylorwilsdon/google_workspace_mcp (2.6k stars, very active, uvx workspace-mcp)."
    },
    {
      "slug": "google-genmedia",
      "name": "Google GenMedia MCP",
      "vendor": "Google Cloud",
      "official": true,
      "category": "video-generation",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Google Cloud's MCP servers for Veo, Imagen, Lyria, Chirp TTS and ffmpeg compositing.",
      "description": "A suite of Go-based MCP servers from Google Cloud's GenMedia Creative Studio repo: Veo text/image-to-video, Imagen and Gemini Image stills, Lyria music, Chirp 3 TTS, and an AVTool server wrapping ffmpeg for compositing. The closest thing to an official Veo MCP, and a full agentic production toolchain on Vertex AI.",
      "capabilities": [
        "text-to-video",
        "image-to-video",
        "text-to-image",
        "music",
        "tts",
        "av-compositing"
      ],
      "tools_sample": [
        "veo_t2v",
        "veo_i2v",
        "imagen_t2i",
        "lyria_generate_music",
        "chirp_tts",
        "list_chirp_voices"
      ],
      "install": {
        "claude_code": null,
        "remote_url": null,
        "stdio_command": null
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "api_key",
        "env_var": "GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT",
        "key_url": "Google Cloud project with Vertex AI enabled; uses Application Default Credentials (gcloud auth application-default login)"
      },
      "pricing": "paid",
      "links": {
        "repo": "https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/vertex-ai-creative-studio/tree/main/experiments/mcp-genmedia",
        "docs": "https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/vertex-ai-creative-studio/blob/main/experiments/mcp-genmedia/mcp-genmedia-go/README.md",
        "site": "https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/video"
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "Official Google Cloud code but explicitly experimental (lives in /experiments). Install via the Go toolchain or their pre-built binary installer; supports stdio/HTTP/SSE and GCS or local output. Ships 'genmedia-producer' agent skills for storyboarding."
    },
    {
      "slug": "google-workspace",
      "name": "Google Workspace MCP",
      "vendor": "Community (taylorwilsdon)",
      "official": false,
      "category": "production-ops",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Full Google Workspace control — Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Gmail, Calendar and more.",
      "description": "The most comprehensive community Workspace MCP, covering 12 Google services with OAuth 2.0/2.1 multi-user support and tool tiers. For film teams: Drive media file search/read/share plus Docs (scripts), Sheets (budgets and shot lists), Slides (pitch decks), Gmail, and Calendar — one server for the whole production office.",
      "capabilities": [
        "drive-files",
        "docs",
        "sheets",
        "slides",
        "gmail",
        "calendar",
        "permissions"
      ],
      "tools_sample": [
        "search_drive_files",
        "get_drive_file_content",
        "create_drive_file",
        "create_doc",
        "modify_sheet_values",
        "send_gmail_message",
        "manage_event"
      ],
      "install": {
        "claude_code": "claude mcp add google-workspace -e GOOGLE_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID=YOUR_ID -e GOOGLE_OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET=YOUR_SECRET -- uvx workspace-mcp --tool-tier core",
        "remote_url": null,
        "stdio_command": "uvx workspace-mcp --tool-tier core"
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "oauth",
        "env_var": "GOOGLE_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID",
        "key_url": "OAuth client from Google Cloud Console (https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/credentials)"
      },
      "pricing": "free",
      "links": {
        "repo": "https://github.com/taylorwilsdon/google_workspace_mcp",
        "docs": null,
        "site": null
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "2.6k stars, 87 releases, MIT, very active. Tool tiers keep the context small (--tool-tier core). npx-only Drive-focused alternative: piotr-agier/google-drive-mcp (166 stars, Apr 2026)."
    },
    {
      "slug": "hedra",
      "name": "Hedra MCP Server",
      "vendor": "Community (pasie15)",
      "official": false,
      "category": "avatars-performance",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Character-3 talking-avatar video, TTS, and image generation through Hedra's API.",
      "description": "Node MCP server for Hedra's generation API: lip-synced character video from an image plus audio (Character-3), text-to-speech, image generation, and asset/credit management. Also routes to third-party models available in Hedra Studio (Veo 3.1, Sora 2, Kling, MiniMax).",
      "capabilities": [
        "avatar-video",
        "lip-sync",
        "tts",
        "text-to-image",
        "asset-management"
      ],
      "tools_sample": [
        "generate_video",
        "generate_video_with_tts",
        "generate_text_to_speech",
        "generate_image",
        "upload_asset",
        "get_generation_status",
        "get_credits"
      ],
      "install": {
        "claude_code": "claude mcp add hedra -e HEDRA_API_KEY=YOUR_KEY -- npx -y mcp-server-hedra",
        "remote_url": null,
        "stdio_command": "npx -y mcp-server-hedra"
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "api_key",
        "env_var": "HEDRA_API_KEY",
        "key_url": "https://www.hedra.com/api-profile (requires Creator plan or above)"
      },
      "pricing": "credits",
      "links": {
        "repo": "https://github.com/pasie15/mcp-server-hedra",
        "docs": "https://www.hedra.com/docs/pages/developer/getting_started/quickstart",
        "site": "https://www.hedra.com"
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "New (Feb 2026), MIT, minimal adoption so far; no official Hedra MCP exists. Requires Node 18+. Hedra API access requires a paid Creator plan and API credits."
    },
    {
      "slug": "heygen",
      "name": "HeyGen Remote MCP",
      "vendor": "HeyGen",
      "official": true,
      "category": "avatars-performance",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Hosted MCP for avatar videos, lipsync, and 175-language video translation.",
      "description": "HeyGen's official hosted MCP endpoint lets agents create and manage HeyGen videos with no local install and no API key — auth is a one-time OAuth flow tied to your HeyGen account. Covers Video Agent one-prompt generation, video translation (audio-only or lip-synced, 175+ languages), lipsync jobs, and Photo Avatar / Digital Twin creation, using any custom avatar or voice in your account.",
      "capabilities": [
        "avatar-video",
        "lip-sync",
        "video-translation",
        "digital-twin",
        "voice-library"
      ],
      "tools_sample": null,
      "install": {
        "claude_code": "claude mcp add --transport http heygen https://mcp.heygen.com/mcp/v1/",
        "remote_url": "https://mcp.heygen.com/mcp/v1/",
        "stdio_command": null
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "oauth",
        "env_var": null,
        "key_url": "One-time browser OAuth tied to your HeyGen account"
      },
      "pricing": "credits",
      "links": {
        "repo": null,
        "docs": "https://developers.heygen.com/mcp/overview",
        "site": "https://www.heygen.com/model-context-protocol"
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "Available on all HeyGen plans; generation consumes plan credits. HeyGen's legacy stdio package (heygen-mcp) is abandoned — the repo 404s; the maintained community fork is sbroenne/heygen-mcp (uvx heygen-mcp-sbroenne with HEYGEN_API_KEY) if you need a local server. HeyGen also ships official Agent Skills (heygen-com/skills)."
    },
    {
      "slug": "higgsfield",
      "name": "Higgsfield MCP",
      "vendor": "Higgsfield AI",
      "official": true,
      "category": "video-generation",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Hosted connector to 30+ video/image models: Kling 3, Veo 3, Sora 2, Soul, Seedance.",
      "description": "Higgsfield's official hosted MCP (launched April 2026) exposes its full platform — 30+ models including Kling 3, Veo 3, Sora 2, Seedance, Wan, Hailuo and its own Soul/Cinema Studio — through one endpoint. Agents can generate 4K images, videos up to 15s, train consistent characters and browse creation history on existing Higgsfield plan credits.",
      "capabilities": [
        "text-to-video",
        "image-to-video",
        "text-to-image",
        "character-consistency",
        "history-browsing"
      ],
      "tools_sample": null,
      "install": {
        "claude_code": "claude mcp add --transport http higgsfield https://mcp.higgsfield.ai/mcp",
        "remote_url": "https://mcp.higgsfield.ai/mcp",
        "stdio_command": null
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "oauth",
        "env_var": null,
        "key_url": "Sign in with your Higgsfield account during connector setup — no API keys"
      },
      "pricing": "credits",
      "links": {
        "repo": null,
        "docs": "https://higgsfield.ai/mcp",
        "site": "https://higgsfield.ai"
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "Works with Claude (web/Cowork/Claude Code) and any MCP client; also ships a CLI and agent skills. Community alternatives exist but the official hosted endpoint is the safe pick."
    },
    {
      "slug": "houdini",
      "name": "Houdini MCP",
      "vendor": "Community (capoomgit)",
      "official": false,
      "category": "3d-vfx",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Drive SideFX Houdini nodes and procedural FX from your agent.",
      "description": "Connects Houdini to MCP clients via a Python plugin and a bridge script: create and wire nodes, build assets, and execute code through natural language. Opens Houdini's procedural FX and sim toolset to agent-driven workflows.",
      "capabilities": [
        "3d-scene-control",
        "procedural-fx",
        "node-graph-authoring",
        "python-scripting"
      ],
      "tools_sample": null,
      "install": {
        "claude_code": null,
        "remote_url": null,
        "stdio_command": null
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "local-app",
        "env_var": null,
        "key_url": "Requires Houdini running with the plugin installed (TCP on localhost:9876)"
      },
      "pricing": "free",
      "links": {
        "repo": "https://github.com/capoomgit/houdini-mcp",
        "docs": null,
        "site": null
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "224 stars, MIT, active Jun 2026 but early-stage. Manual install (copy plugin into Houdini scripts dir). Alternatives: healkeiser/fxhoudinimcp. For Cinema 4D, the leading equivalent is ttiimmaacc/cinema4d-mcp (87 stars, early-stage, C4D 2024+, MoGraph/Redshift tools)."
    },
    {
      "slug": "hume",
      "name": "Hume MCP Server",
      "vendor": "Hume AI",
      "official": true,
      "category": "voice-speech",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Official Hume server for Octave TTS — emotionally expressive, acting-directed speech.",
      "description": "Hume's official MCP server drives Octave, a speech-language model that 'performs' text rather than just pronouncing it, with prompt-directed emotion and delivery. Ideal for film dialogue and narration where acting nuance matters; agents can iterate on takes, save designed voices, and replay prior audio.",
      "capabilities": [
        "tts",
        "voice-design",
        "expressive-performance",
        "voice-library"
      ],
      "tools_sample": [
        "tts",
        "play_previous_audio",
        "list_voices",
        "save_voice",
        "delete_voice"
      ],
      "install": {
        "claude_code": "claude mcp add hume -e HUME_API_KEY=YOUR_KEY -- npx @humeai/mcp-server",
        "remote_url": null,
        "stdio_command": "npx @humeai/mcp-server"
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "api_key",
        "env_var": "HUME_API_KEY",
        "key_url": "https://platform.hume.ai"
      },
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "links": {
        "repo": "https://github.com/HumeAI/mcp-server-hume",
        "docs": "https://dev.hume.ai/docs/text-to-speech-tts/mcp-server",
        "site": "https://www.hume.ai"
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "Official, published as @humeai/mcp-server on npm with first-party docs. Smaller tool surface than ElevenLabs/Cartesia (TTS-focused). Octave 2 multilingual model strengthens its case for character performance."
    },
    {
      "slug": "ideogram",
      "name": "Ideogram MCP Server",
      "vendor": "Community (Sunwood AI Labs)",
      "official": false,
      "category": "image-generation",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Ideogram 3.0 text-to-image with magic prompt and style refs — strongest text-in-image.",
      "description": "Community server for the Ideogram API with Ideogram 3.0 support: magic prompt modes, style references, negative prompts, seeds, 15 aspect ratios and batch generation of up to 8 images. Filmmaker-relevant for title cards, posters and any frame where legible rendered text matters.",
      "capabilities": [
        "text-to-image",
        "magic-prompt",
        "style-reference",
        "batch-generation"
      ],
      "tools_sample": [
        "generate_image"
      ],
      "install": {
        "claude_code": "claude mcp add ideogram -e IDEOGRAM_API_KEY=YOUR_KEY -- npx @sunwood-ai-labs/ideagram-mcp-server",
        "remote_url": null,
        "stdio_command": "npx @sunwood-ai-labs/ideagram-mcp-server"
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "api_key",
        "env_var": "IDEOGRAM_API_KEY",
        "key_url": "Ideogram account → API settings (ideogram.ai)"
      },
      "pricing": "paid",
      "links": {
        "repo": "https://github.com/sunwood-ai-labs/ideagram-mcp-server",
        "docs": null,
        "site": "https://ideogram.ai"
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "MIT, small; note the 'ideagram' typo in the package/repo name. No official Ideogram MCP exists; Ideogram v3 is also reachable via the fal and Replicate hub MCPs if you want fewer connectors."
    },
    {
      "slug": "json2video",
      "name": "json2video MCP",
      "vendor": "Community (omergocmen)",
      "official": false,
      "category": "editing-post",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Render JSON-defined videos in the cloud with the json2video API.",
      "description": "Community MCP wrapper for json2video.com: assemble scenes of video, images, text, HTML, voice, and subtitles as JSON and render server-side. Good for agentic batch assembly (social cuts, slates, data-driven edits) without a local NLE.",
      "capabilities": [
        "cloud-render",
        "template-video",
        "captioning",
        "video-assembly"
      ],
      "tools_sample": [
        "generate_video",
        "get_video_status",
        "create_template",
        "list_templates"
      ],
      "install": {
        "claude_code": "claude mcp add json2video -e JSON2VIDEO_API_KEY=YOUR_KEY -- npx -y @omerrgocmen/json2video-mcp",
        "remote_url": null,
        "stdio_command": "npx -y @omerrgocmen/json2video-mcp"
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "api_key",
        "env_var": "JSON2VIDEO_API_KEY",
        "key_url": "https://json2video.com"
      },
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "links": {
        "repo": "https://github.com/omergocmen/json2video-mcp-server",
        "docs": null,
        "site": "https://json2video.com"
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "Early-stage but functional npm package. Notable gap it fills: as of June 2026 none of the big video-API platforms (Shotstack, Creatomate) ship an official MCP — this json2video wrapper is the most usable of the bunch."
    },
    {
      "slug": "kling",
      "name": "Kling MCP",
      "vendor": "Community (199 Longevity)",
      "official": false,
      "category": "video-generation",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Fullest direct Kling API MCP: video, extend, lip-sync, effects, KOLORS images.",
      "description": "Community server hitting Kuaishou's official Kling API directly, with 13 tools spanning text/image-to-video, video extension, lip-sync with TTS voices, effects, KOLORS image generation and virtual try-on. The most complete option if you want Kling on your own API account rather than via a hub.",
      "capabilities": [
        "text-to-video",
        "image-to-video",
        "video-extension",
        "lip-sync",
        "video-effects",
        "text-to-image"
      ],
      "tools_sample": [
        "generate_video",
        "generate_image_to_video",
        "extend_video",
        "create_lipsync",
        "apply_video_effect",
        "generate_image",
        "get_account_balance"
      ],
      "install": {
        "claude_code": "claude mcp add kling -e KLING_ACCESS_KEY=YOUR_KEY -e KLING_SECRET_KEY=YOUR_SECRET -- npx -y mcp-kling@latest",
        "remote_url": null,
        "stdio_command": "npx -y mcp-kling@latest"
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "api_key",
        "env_var": "KLING_ACCESS_KEY",
        "key_url": "https://app.klingai.com/global/dev/api-key"
      },
      "pricing": "credits",
      "links": {
        "repo": "https://github.com/199-mcp/mcp-kling",
        "docs": null,
        "site": null
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "MIT, 30 stars. README documents models through Kling v1.x/v2-master — for Kling 3.0 access today, the Runway, Higgsfield or fal hub MCPs may be fresher. Auto-downloads results locally."
    },
    {
      "slug": "luma",
      "name": "Luma AI MCP Server",
      "vendor": "Community (bobtista)",
      "official": false,
      "category": "video-generation",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Dream Machine API in MCP form: Ray 2 video, Photon images, extend and interpolate.",
      "description": "Community Python server for Luma's Dream Machine API v1: text/image-to-video on ray-2 and ray-flash-2, video extension and interpolation, Photon image generation, upscaling, audio addition and credit checks. Luma has no official MCP, so this is the main direct-API option.",
      "capabilities": [
        "text-to-video",
        "image-to-video",
        "video-extension",
        "interpolation",
        "text-to-image",
        "upscaling"
      ],
      "tools_sample": [
        "create_generation",
        "get_generation",
        "list_generations",
        "upscale_generation",
        "add_audio",
        "generate_image",
        "get_credits",
        "get_camera_motions"
      ],
      "install": {
        "claude_code": null,
        "remote_url": null,
        "stdio_command": "uv run --project /path/to/luma-ai-mcp-server -m luma_ai_mcp_server"
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "api_key",
        "env_var": "LUMA_API_KEY",
        "key_url": "https://lumalabs.ai/dream-machine/api"
      },
      "pricing": "paid",
      "links": {
        "repo": "https://github.com/bobtista/luma-ai-mcp-server",
        "docs": "https://docs.lumalabs.ai/docs/api",
        "site": null
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "MIT but tiny (6 stars) — functional rather than polished; runs from a cloned repo via uv. Luma Ray models are also reachable through fal, Replicate, Runway and PiAPI hub MCPs."
    },
    {
      "slug": "martini",
      "name": "Martini",
      "vendor": "Martini (C47)",
      "official": true,
      "category": "studio",
      "featured": true,
      "tagline": "The film set for AI videos — direct entire productions from your agent.",
      "description": "Martini is an AI video production platform built for professional filmmakers, and its first-party MCP server is the most complete production surface an agent can drive today: projects, infinite canvases, storyboard nodes, multi-model generation (Veo 3.1, Kling 3.0 Pro, Sora 2 Pro, Hailuo 02, Seedance 1.5, Flux and more), reusable subjects for character/prop consistency across shots, batch shot generation with cost approval, a real timeline editor, frame extraction for shot chaining, and asset upload/download. Over 200 professional films have been made on Martini — aired as TV commercials, shown as artwork, and gone viral.",
      "capabilities": [
        "text-to-video",
        "image-to-video",
        "multi-model-generation",
        "character-consistency",
        "storyboarding",
        "shot-planning",
        "canvas-collaboration",
        "timeline-editing",
        "frame-extraction",
        "audio-generation",
        "3d-sets",
        "asset-management"
      ],
      "tools_sample": [
        "create_project",
        "create_canvas",
        "get_board_overview",
        "create_nodes_and_generate",
        "list_models",
        "create_subject",
        "apply_timeline_edit",
        "extract_video_frame",
        "upload_asset_init",
        "get_job_status"
      ],
      "install": {
        "claude_code": null,
        "remote_url": null,
        "stdio_command": null,
        "docs_url": "https://www.martini.film/docs/mcp"
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "oauth",
        "env_var": null,
        "key_url": "https://www.martini.film — sign in with your Martini account"
      },
      "pricing": "credits",
      "links": {
        "repo": null,
        "docs": "https://www.martini.film/docs/mcp",
        "site": "https://www.martini.film"
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "Remote MCP server maintained first-party by Martini (YC-backed). Generation tools require explicit user approval of model, prompt, and estimated cost before spending credits — a thoughtful guardrail for agent-driven production. Connect instructions live at martini.film/docs/mcp."
    },
    {
      "slug": "meshy",
      "name": "Meshy MCP Server",
      "vendor": "Meshy AI",
      "official": true,
      "category": "3d-vfx",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Official Meshy MCP — generate, retexture, rig, and animate 3D models via API.",
      "description": "Meshy's official MCP server with 20 tools spanning text/image-to-3D generation, remeshing, retexturing, rigging, animation, and task management. For filmmakers it turns character and prop creation — including rigged, animatable assets — into an agent call.",
      "capabilities": [
        "3d-generation",
        "text-to-3d",
        "rigging",
        "animation",
        "retexturing"
      ],
      "tools_sample": null,
      "install": {
        "claude_code": null,
        "remote_url": null,
        "stdio_command": "npx add-mcp @meshy-ai/meshy-mcp-server --env MESHY_API_KEY=msy_YOUR_API_KEY"
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "api_key",
        "env_var": "MESHY_API_KEY",
        "key_url": "https://www.meshy.ai/settings/api"
      },
      "pricing": "paid",
      "links": {
        "repo": "https://github.com/meshy-dev/meshy-mcp-server",
        "docs": null,
        "site": "https://www.meshy.ai"
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "Official (meshy-dev org), v0.3.0 (May 2026), MIT, TypeScript; vendor-maintained. Supports stdio and HTTP transports. API access requires a Meshy Pro plan or higher."
    },
    {
      "slug": "minimax",
      "name": "MiniMax MCP",
      "vendor": "MiniMax",
      "official": true,
      "category": "video-generation",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Official MiniMax server: Hailuo video, image gen, music, TTS and voice cloning.",
      "description": "MiniMax's official MCP server exposes Hailuo video generation (MiniMax-Hailuo-02, 6s/10s at 768P/1080P), text-to-image, music generation (music-1.5), and best-in-class multilingual TTS with voice cloning and voice design. One vendor and one key covers both your shots and your dialogue — rare breadth for a single official server.",
      "capabilities": [
        "text-to-video",
        "image-to-video",
        "text-to-image",
        "tts",
        "voice-cloning",
        "voice-design",
        "music"
      ],
      "tools_sample": [
        "generate_video",
        "query_video_generation",
        "text_to_image",
        "text_to_audio",
        "voice_clone",
        "voice_design",
        "music_generation",
        "list_voices"
      ],
      "install": {
        "claude_code": "claude mcp add minimax -e MINIMAX_API_KEY=YOUR_KEY -e MINIMAX_API_HOST=https://api.minimax.io -- uvx minimax-mcp",
        "remote_url": null,
        "stdio_command": "uvx minimax-mcp"
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "api_key",
        "env_var": "MINIMAX_API_KEY",
        "key_url": "https://platform.minimax.io — key region must match MINIMAX_API_HOST (api.minimax.io global / api.minimaxi.com mainland) or auth fails"
      },
      "pricing": "paid",
      "links": {
        "repo": "https://github.com/MiniMax-AI/MiniMax-MCP",
        "docs": "https://platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/mcp-guide",
        "site": "https://www.minimax.io"
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "MIT, ~1.5k stars, actively maintained, with an official JS sibling (MiniMax-AI/MiniMax-MCP-JS). MINIMAX_API_RESOURCE_MODE toggles URL vs local-file output; MINIMAX_MCP_BASE_PATH sets the output directory."
    },
    {
      "slug": "miro",
      "name": "Miro MCP",
      "vendor": "Miro",
      "official": true,
      "category": "story-preproduction",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Official Miro MCP — build and read storyboards, frames, and planning boards via AI.",
      "description": "Miro's hosted MCP server (public beta) lets agents create and read board content: frames, sticky notes, shapes, text, cards, docs, tables, and diagrams, plus retrieve images and resolve comments. A strong fit for storyboard layouts, shot-planning walls, and mood boards your whole team can see.",
      "capabilities": [
        "storyboarding",
        "board-creation",
        "diagrams",
        "mood-boards",
        "comments",
        "image-retrieval"
      ],
      "tools_sample": null,
      "install": {
        "claude_code": "claude mcp add --transport http miro https://mcp.miro.com/",
        "remote_url": "https://mcp.miro.com/",
        "stdio_command": null
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "oauth",
        "env_var": null,
        "key_url": "OAuth 2.1 browser flow, per-team authorization"
      },
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "links": {
        "repo": "https://github.com/miroapp/miro-ai",
        "docs": "https://developers.miro.com/docs/miro-mcp",
        "site": "https://miro.com/ai/mcp/"
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "Public beta; also installable as a Claude Code plugin (/plugin install miro@miro-ai). Tool schemas live at developers.miro.com — the server itself is the source of truth. Enterprise plans add admin controls."
    },
    {
      "slug": "mux",
      "name": "Mux MCP Server",
      "vendor": "Mux",
      "official": true,
      "category": "distribution",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Official Mux MCP: upload, manage, and analyze video via API or hosted remote server.",
      "description": "The official MCP server for the full Mux Video + Mux Data platform: upload videos, create and manage assets and live streams, mint playback IDs, manage webhooks, and query video performance analytics. Available both as a hosted remote at mcp.mux.com (OAuth, pick your environment) and as the @mux/mcp npm package — the strongest official offering in video infrastructure.",
      "capabilities": [
        "video-hosting",
        "asset-upload",
        "live-streams",
        "playback-ids",
        "analytics",
        "webhooks"
      ],
      "tools_sample": [
        "docs_search",
        "execute"
      ],
      "install": {
        "claude_code": "claude mcp add --transport http mux https://mcp.mux.com",
        "remote_url": "https://mcp.mux.com",
        "stdio_command": "npx -y @mux/mcp@latest"
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "oauth",
        "env_var": "MUX_TOKEN_ID",
        "key_url": "Remote: OAuth via dashboard.mux.com. Local: MUX_TOKEN_ID + MUX_TOKEN_SECRET from dashboard.mux.com → Settings → Access Tokens"
      },
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "links": {
        "repo": "https://github.com/muxinc/mux-node-sdk/tree/master/packages/mcp-server",
        "docs": "https://www.mux.com/docs/integrations/mcp-server",
        "site": "https://www.mux.com"
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "npm @mux/mcp v14.x, Apache-2.0, maintained inside the official mux-node-sdk monorepo. Recent versions use a 'Code Mode' design (docs search + sandboxed code execution against the Mux API) instead of hundreds of per-endpoint tools. Supports resource-filtering query params (e.g. ?resource=video.*); DELETE routes mostly excluded by design."
    },
    {
      "slug": "notion",
      "name": "Notion MCP",
      "vendor": "Notion",
      "official": true,
      "category": "production-ops",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Notion's hosted MCP: search, read, and write docs, wikis, and databases via OAuth.",
      "description": "Notion's official hosted MCP server gives agents OAuth-scoped access to a workspace: semantic search (including connected Slack/Drive/Jira with Notion AI), fetch pages and databases, and create/update content using AI-native, Markdown-first tools. The natural home for script drafts, beat sheets, character bibles, and shot lists an agent can read and update.",
      "capabilities": [
        "workspace-search",
        "page-crud",
        "database-crud",
        "comments",
        "markdown-first"
      ],
      "tools_sample": [
        "notion-search",
        "notion-fetch",
        "notion-create-pages",
        "notion-update-page",
        "notion-create-database",
        "notion-create-comment"
      ],
      "install": {
        "claude_code": "claude mcp add --transport http notion https://mcp.notion.com/mcp",
        "remote_url": "https://mcp.notion.com/mcp",
        "stdio_command": "npx -y @notionhq/notion-mcp-server"
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "oauth",
        "env_var": null,
        "key_url": "One-click OAuth at mcp.notion.com; local server uses a NOTION_TOKEN integration token instead"
      },
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "links": {
        "repo": "https://github.com/makenotion/notion-mcp-server",
        "docs": "https://developers.notion.com/guides/mcp/get-started-with-mcp",
        "site": "https://www.notion.com"
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "~18 tools on the hosted server (SSE fallback at mcp.notion.com/sse). The open-source local repo (4.4k stars) is explicitly deprioritized by Notion — prefer the hosted URL. Cross-connector search requires a Notion AI / Business plan."
    },
    {
      "slug": "penshot",
      "name": "PenShot (story-shot-agent)",
      "vendor": "Community (neopen)",
      "official": false,
      "category": "story-preproduction",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Breaks screenplays into shot lists and generates Sora/Veo/Runway-ready video prompts.",
      "description": "An LLM-powered agent that parses scripts in any format, performs shot-by-shot breakdowns, and emits coherent text-to-video prompts with cross-shot character consistency. Runs as an MCP server, Python SDK, REST API, or LangGraph node — the missing link between a screenplay and a generation pipeline.",
      "capabilities": [
        "screenplay-parsing",
        "shot-breakdown",
        "storyboard-scripts",
        "t2v-prompt-generation",
        "character-consistency"
      ],
      "tools_sample": [
        "breakdown_script",
        "get_task_result"
      ],
      "install": {
        "claude_code": "claude mcp add penshot -- python -m penshot.mcp_server (after pip install penshot)",
        "remote_url": null,
        "stdio_command": "python -m penshot.mcp_server"
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "api_key",
        "env_var": null,
        "key_url": "Bring your own LLM API key for the underlying agent (per its docs)"
      },
      "pricing": "free",
      "links": {
        "repo": "https://github.com/neopen/story-shot-agent",
        "docs": "https://pengline.cn",
        "site": null
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "94 stars, actively updated (Jun 2026); docs are bilingual Chinese/English. Directory finding: no dedicated MCP exists for Final Draft, Celtx, WriterDuet, or Fountain as of June 2026 — script writing itself is best done with your agent directly (Fountain is plain text), stored via the Notion or Google Drive MCPs."
    },
    {
      "slug": "piapi",
      "name": "PiAPI MCP Server",
      "vendor": "Community (PiAPI)",
      "official": false,
      "category": "model-hub",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Midjourney in an agent — plus Kling, Luma, Hunyuan, Wan, Suno/Udio via PiAPI.",
      "description": "TypeScript MCP server over PiAPI's unified API, best known as the practical Midjourney route since Midjourney has no public API or official MCP. Also covers FLUX, Kling video and effects, Luma Dream Machine, Hunyuan/Skyreels/Wan video, Trellis 3D and Suno/Udio music — a budget multi-model hub for film agents.",
      "capabilities": [
        "text-to-image",
        "midjourney",
        "text-to-video",
        "image-to-video",
        "music",
        "3d-generation"
      ],
      "tools_sample": null,
      "install": {
        "claude_code": null,
        "remote_url": null,
        "stdio_command": null
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "api_key",
        "env_var": "PIAPI_API_KEY",
        "key_url": "https://piapi.ai (workspace → key management)"
      },
      "pricing": "credits",
      "links": {
        "repo": "https://github.com/apinetwork/piapi-mcp-server",
        "docs": "https://piapi.ai/docs",
        "site": "https://piapi.ai"
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "MIT, 70 stars; install is clone + npm build. Caveats: unofficial Midjourney access (ToS gray area) and long video jobs can exceed MCP client timeouts — raise timeouts. Hosted Midjourney alternative: AceDataCloud/MidjourneyMCP."
    },
    {
      "slug": "pika",
      "name": "Pika MCP",
      "vendor": "Pika Labs",
      "official": true,
      "category": "video-generation",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "'Pikafy' your agent: Pika's video, image, music and voiceover tools in Claude.",
      "description": "Pika's official hosted MCP connects its creative suite — video, image, music, audio and voiceover generation — to Claude and other MCP clients, backed by 42 atomic media tools. An official Claude Code plugin adds curated /pika:podcast, /pika:explainer and /pika:ugc-ads slash commands for end-to-end short-form production.",
      "capabilities": [
        "text-to-video",
        "image-to-video",
        "text-to-image",
        "audio-generation",
        "voiceover",
        "video-editing"
      ],
      "tools_sample": null,
      "install": {
        "claude_code": "claude mcp add --transport http pika https://mcp.pika.me/api/mcp",
        "remote_url": "https://mcp.pika.me/api/mcp",
        "stdio_command": null
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "oauth",
        "env_var": null,
        "key_url": "Log in to your Pika account when authorizing the connector"
      },
      "pricing": "credits",
      "links": {
        "repo": null,
        "docs": "https://www.pika.me/mcp",
        "site": "https://www.pika.me"
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "Part of Pika's 2026 pivot to an agent platform. Skill-driven workflows (podcast/explainer/UGC) make it strong for templated content; per-tool documentation is thinner than Runway or fal."
    },
    {
      "slug": "recraft",
      "name": "Recraft MCP Server",
      "vendor": "Recraft",
      "official": true,
      "category": "image-generation",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Official Recraft server: raster + vector image gen, styles, upscale, backgrounds.",
      "description": "Recraft's official MCP server (remote endpoint or local npm package) covers text-to-image and image-to-image in raster and SVG, custom style creation, vectorization, background removal/replacement and two upscalers. Uniquely useful for film work needing brand-consistent styles, title/poster art and clean vector assets.",
      "capabilities": [
        "text-to-image",
        "image-to-image",
        "vectorization",
        "style-creation",
        "background-removal",
        "upscaling"
      ],
      "tools_sample": [
        "generate_image",
        "image_to_image",
        "create_style",
        "vectorize_image",
        "remove_background",
        "replace_background",
        "crisp_upscale",
        "creative_upscale"
      ],
      "install": {
        "claude_code": "claude mcp add recraft -e RECRAFT_API_KEY=YOUR_KEY -- npx -y @recraft-ai/mcp-recraft-server@latest",
        "remote_url": "https://mcp.recraft.ai/mcp",
        "stdio_command": "npx -y @recraft-ai/mcp-recraft-server@latest"
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "api_key",
        "env_var": "RECRAFT_API_KEY",
        "key_url": "https://www.recraft.ai/profile/api (buy API units, generate key)"
      },
      "pricing": "credits",
      "links": {
        "repo": "https://github.com/recraft-ai/mcp-recraft-server",
        "docs": "https://www.recraft.ai/docs/mcp-reference/getting-started",
        "site": "https://www.recraft.ai/blog/recraft-mcp"
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "v1.6.5; per-image API pricing roughly $0.04-$0.08, vectorize $0.01, creative upscale $0.25. Local mode supports IMAGE_STORAGE_DIRECTORY for saving outputs to disk."
    },
    {
      "slug": "remotion",
      "name": "Remotion MCP",
      "vendor": "Remotion",
      "official": true,
      "category": "editing-post",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Official Remotion docs MCP — grounds agents in the programmatic-video framework.",
      "description": "Remotion's official MCP server indexes the entire Remotion documentation into a vector store so coding agents can correctly build React-based videos, animated graphics, and captions. It is a knowledge server, not a renderer — pair it with the Remotion CLI for actual rendering.",
      "capabilities": [
        "docs-search",
        "programmatic-video",
        "code-assist"
      ],
      "tools_sample": null,
      "install": {
        "claude_code": "claude mcp add remotion -- npx @remotion/mcp@latest",
        "remote_url": null,
        "stdio_command": "npx @remotion/mcp@latest"
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "none",
        "env_var": null,
        "key_url": null
      },
      "pricing": "free",
      "links": {
        "repo": "https://github.com/remotion-dev/remotion",
        "docs": "https://www.remotion.dev/docs/ai/mcp",
        "site": "https://www.remotion.dev"
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "Official; npm @remotion/mcp versioned with Remotion core (v4.0.470, Jun 2026). Currently in test phase, open without authentication. Remotion itself requires a paid company license for teams >3 people. For a Remotion-powered video-making MCP, see gyoridavid/short-video-maker (1.2k stars)."
    },
    {
      "slug": "replicate",
      "name": "Replicate MCP Server",
      "vendor": "Replicate",
      "official": true,
      "category": "model-hub",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Official remote MCP for discovering and running thousands of models on Replicate.",
      "description": "Replicate's official MCP server (remote, plus a self-hostable npm package auto-generated from their HTTP API) lets agents search, compare and run any Replicate model — Veo, Kling, Wan, FLUX, SDXL, LTX and more. Experimental 'code mode' lets the model write sandboxed TypeScript against the Replicate SDK for faster multi-step chains.",
      "capabilities": [
        "text-to-video",
        "image-to-video",
        "text-to-image",
        "model-search",
        "predictions",
        "upscaling"
      ],
      "tools_sample": [
        "search_models",
        "create_predictions",
        "list_hardware"
      ],
      "install": {
        "claude_code": "claude mcp add --transport sse replicate https://mcp.replicate.com/sse",
        "remote_url": "https://mcp.replicate.com/sse",
        "stdio_command": "npx replicate-mcp"
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "api_key",
        "env_var": "REPLICATE_API_TOKEN",
        "key_url": "https://replicate.com/account/api-tokens (remote server stores token via web auth flow)"
      },
      "pricing": "paid",
      "links": {
        "repo": "https://github.com/replicate/replicate-mcp-code-mode",
        "docs": "https://replicate.com/docs/reference/mcp",
        "site": "https://mcp.replicate.com"
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "Remote server recommended; check mcp.replicate.com for the current endpoint (SSE at launch, streamable-HTTP may follow). The npm package tracks the full HTTP API and is auto-updated. Also a strong route to upscalers (Real-ESRGAN, Topaz-style models) with no first-party MCP."
    },
    {
      "slug": "runway",
      "name": "Runway MCP",
      "vendor": "Runway",
      "official": true,
      "category": "video-generation",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Official hosted MCP: Gen-4.5, Seedance, Kling and Veo video from any agent.",
      "description": "Runway's hosted MCP server connects agents like Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor to Runway's full generation stack. It routes requests to Gen-4.5, Seedance 2.0, Kling 3.0, Veo 3.1, GPT Image 2 and Nano Banana Pro depending on your plan, making it a one-stop video tool for filmmaker agents with automatic task polling and media URL delivery.",
      "capabilities": [
        "text-to-video",
        "image-to-video",
        "text-to-image",
        "video-upscaling",
        "video-editing"
      ],
      "tools_sample": [
        "runway_generateVideo",
        "runway_generateImage",
        "runway_upscaleVideo",
        "runway_editVideo",
        "runway_getTask"
      ],
      "install": {
        "claude_code": "claude mcp add --transport http runway https://mcp.runwayml.com/mcp",
        "remote_url": "https://mcp.runwayml.com/mcp",
        "stdio_command": null
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "oauth",
        "env_var": null,
        "key_url": "Hosted MCP authenticates with your Runway account (OAuth). Self-hosted repo uses RUNWAYML_API_SECRET from dev.runwayml.com"
      },
      "pricing": "credits",
      "links": {
        "repo": "https://github.com/runwayml/runway-api-mcp-server",
        "docs": "https://help.runwayml.com/hc/en-us/articles/51931843164691-Connecting-to-Runway-MCP",
        "site": "https://runwayml.com/mcp"
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "Hosted server (OAuth, no API key, bills Runway credits) is the flagship; an open-source MIT repo exists for self-hosting. Generated asset URLs from the API expire after 24h — download outputs promptly."
    },
    {
      "slug": "sanzaru",
      "name": "Sanzaru (Whisper MCP)",
      "vendor": "Community (TJC-LP)",
      "official": false,
      "category": "transcription",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "OpenAI Whisper/GPT-4o transcription, audio chat, and TTS in one local MCP server.",
      "description": "Community MCP server wrapping OpenAI's audio APIs: Whisper and GPT-4o transcription with enhancement templates, interactive 'chat with audio' analysis, format conversion/compression, and OpenAI TTS. A filmmaker-agent can transcribe and interrogate dailies, then generate scratch narration, all against a single OpenAI key.",
      "capabilities": [
        "transcription",
        "audio-analysis",
        "tts",
        "format-conversion"
      ],
      "tools_sample": [
        "transcribe_audio",
        "transcribe_with_enhancement",
        "chat_with_audio",
        "create_audio",
        "convert_audio",
        "compress_audio"
      ],
      "install": {
        "claude_code": "claude mcp add sanzaru -e OPENAI_API_KEY=YOUR_KEY -e SANZARU_MEDIA_PATH=/absolute/path/to/media -- uvx \"sanzaru[all]\"",
        "remote_url": null,
        "stdio_command": "uvx \"sanzaru[all]\""
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "api_key",
        "env_var": "OPENAI_API_KEY",
        "key_url": "https://platform.openai.com (API keys)"
      },
      "pricing": "paid",
      "links": {
        "repo": "https://github.com/TJC-LP/sanzaru",
        "docs": null,
        "site": null
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "Successor to the widely-listed (now deprecated) arcaputo3/mcp-server-whisper. v0.6.2, Apr 2026, MIT. For fully local/offline transcription: jwulff/whisper-mcp and SmartLittleApps/local-stt-mcp (whisper.cpp, Apple Silicon, diarization)."
    },
    {
      "slug": "sora",
      "name": "Sora MCP",
      "vendor": "Community (Doriandarko)",
      "official": false,
      "category": "video-generation",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Community MCP for OpenAI's Sora 2 API: create, remix and manage video jobs.",
      "description": "The most-starred community MCP for OpenAI's Sora 2 video API: create videos from text, track job status, list, download and remix generations. OpenAI ships no official Sora MCP as of June 2026, so this is the practical way to put Sora directly in an agent pipeline — or reach Sora via the Runway and Higgsfield hubs.",
      "capabilities": [
        "text-to-video",
        "remix",
        "job-management",
        "auto-download"
      ],
      "tools_sample": [
        "create-video",
        "get-video-status",
        "list-videos",
        "download-video",
        "remix-video",
        "delete-video"
      ],
      "install": {
        "claude_code": null,
        "remote_url": null,
        "stdio_command": null
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "api_key",
        "env_var": "OPENAI_API_KEY",
        "key_url": "https://platform.openai.com/api-keys (account must have Sora API access)"
      },
      "pricing": "paid",
      "links": {
        "repo": "https://github.com/Doriandarko/sora-mcp",
        "docs": null,
        "site": null
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "MIT, 211 stars; install is clone + npm install + npm run build (no published npx package); includes stdio and HTTP variants. Alternative: writingmate/sora-2-mcp adds sora-2-pro, 720p-4K, 4-12s durations and FFmpeg merging."
    },
    {
      "slug": "stability-ai",
      "name": "Stability AI MCP Server",
      "vendor": "Community (tadasant)",
      "official": false,
      "category": "image-generation",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Stability platform API as 12 MCP tools: SD3.5 gen, inpaint, outpaint, upscale.",
      "description": "Community wrapper for Stability AI's hosted REST API: SD3.5 and Core generation plus a deep editing kit — outpainting, search-and-replace, search-and-recolor, background replace with relighting, sketch/style/structure control and fast or creative 4x upscaling. A capable, cheap stills and plate-fixing tool for film agents.",
      "capabilities": [
        "text-to-image",
        "inpainting",
        "outpainting",
        "background-removal",
        "relighting",
        "style-structure-control",
        "upscaling"
      ],
      "tools_sample": [
        "generate-image",
        "generate-image-sd35",
        "outpaint",
        "search-and-replace",
        "search-and-recolor",
        "remove-background",
        "replace-background-and-relight",
        "upscale-creative"
      ],
      "install": {
        "claude_code": "claude mcp add stability -e STABILITY_AI_API_KEY=YOUR_KEY -- npx -y mcp-server-stability-ai",
        "remote_url": null,
        "stdio_command": "npx -y mcp-server-stability-ai"
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "api_key",
        "env_var": "STABILITY_AI_API_KEY",
        "key_url": "https://platform.stability.ai/account/keys (25 free credits, then $0.01/credit)"
      },
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "links": {
        "repo": "https://github.com/tadasant/mcp-server-stability-ai",
        "docs": null,
        "site": null
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "MIT, 83 stars; not affiliated with Stability AI (no official Stability MCP exists). Last release Mar 2025 — aging but the API surface it wraps is stable; per-tool costs $0.01-$0.25."
    },
    {
      "slug": "suno-acedata",
      "name": "SunoMCP (AceDataCloud)",
      "vendor": "Community (AceDataCloud — not Suno)",
      "official": false,
      "category": "music",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Full Suno workflow via a third-party API: songs, lyrics, stems, extends, personas.",
      "description": "The most complete Suno bridge available as an MCP server, built on AceDataCloud's Suno API: generate songs from prompts or custom lyrics, extend/cover/remaster tracks, split stems, replace sections, and export WAV/MIDI. Useful for temp score and full songs with vocals — capabilities Suno itself does not expose via any official API or MCP.",
      "capabilities": [
        "music",
        "lyrics",
        "song-extension",
        "stems",
        "covers",
        "vocal-extraction"
      ],
      "tools_sample": [
        "generate_music",
        "generate_custom_music",
        "extend_music",
        "cover_music",
        "stems_music",
        "generate_lyrics",
        "get_wav",
        "get_midi"
      ],
      "install": {
        "claude_code": "claude mcp add suno -e ACEDATACLOUD_API_TOKEN=YOUR_TOKEN -- uvx mcp-suno",
        "remote_url": null,
        "stdio_command": "uvx mcp-suno"
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "api_key",
        "env_var": "ACEDATACLOUD_API_TOKEN",
        "key_url": "https://platform.acedata.cloud"
      },
      "pricing": "credits",
      "links": {
        "repo": "https://github.com/AceDataCloud/SunoMCP",
        "docs": null,
        "site": "https://platform.acedata.cloud"
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "Important caveat: Suno has NO official public API as of 2026 — all Suno APIs/MCPs are unofficial resellers and may violate Suno's ToS; commercial-rights claims cannot be guaranteed. The same applies to all Udio wrappers. For licensed-by-design music, prefer Lyria (Google GenMedia) or Stable Audio via the fal hub."
    },
    {
      "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."
    },
    {
      "slug": "topaz",
      "name": "Topaz Labs MCP",
      "vendor": "Topaz Labs",
      "official": true,
      "category": "enhancement",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Official Topaz Labs MCP — enhance and upscale images with Topaz AI models.",
      "description": "Topaz Labs' own MCP server: send an image, get back an enhanced/upscaled version using 9 Topaz models (Standard V2, Wonder 2, Recover 3, and more), defaulting to auto-upscale to 2K. The official path to Topaz-grade enhancement for stills, plates, and frames in an agent pipeline.",
      "capabilities": [
        "upscaling",
        "image-enhancement",
        "denoise",
        "restoration"
      ],
      "tools_sample": [
        "image-enhance"
      ],
      "install": {
        "claude_code": "claude mcp add topaz -e TOPAZ_API_KEY=YOUR_KEY -- npx -y @topazlabs/mcp",
        "remote_url": null,
        "stdio_command": "npx -y @topazlabs/mcp"
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "api_key",
        "env_var": "TOPAZ_API_KEY",
        "key_url": "https://developer.topazlabs.com/"
      },
      "pricing": "credits",
      "links": {
        "repo": "https://github.com/TopazLabs/topaz-mcp",
        "docs": "https://developer.topazlabs.com/",
        "site": "https://www.topazlabs.com/api"
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "Official but brand new, MIT, TypeScript. IMAGE ONLY for now — the README says video is 'not yet supported' via MCP even though Topaz's developer API covers Video AI, Photo AI, and Gigapixel. For Topaz VIDEO upscaling today, use the Topaz models hosted on fal.ai via the fal MCP. Needs a filesystem-capable client (Claude Code, not Claude web chat)."
    },
    {
      "slug": "tripo",
      "name": "Tripo MCP",
      "vendor": "Tripo (VAST AI Research)",
      "official": true,
      "category": "3d-vfx",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Official Tripo MCP — text-to-3D assets generated and imported into Blender.",
      "description": "VAST's official MCP server generates 3D assets from natural language via the Tripo API and imports them into Blender through the Tripo Blender addon. Quick path from prompt to set-dressing props and previz geometry.",
      "capabilities": [
        "3d-generation",
        "text-to-3d",
        "asset-import",
        "blender-integration"
      ],
      "tools_sample": null,
      "install": {
        "claude_code": "claude mcp add tripo -- uvx tripo-mcp",
        "remote_url": null,
        "stdio_command": "uvx tripo-mcp"
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "api_key",
        "env_var": null,
        "key_url": "https://platform.tripo3d.ai"
      },
      "pricing": "credits",
      "links": {
        "repo": "https://github.com/VAST-AI-Research/tripo-mcp",
        "docs": null,
        "site": "https://www.tripo3d.ai"
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "Official, 186 stars — but ALPHA and slow-moving (last release Apr 2025). Currently scoped to Blender-addon integration (requires the separate Tripo AI Blender Addon). Multi-provider community alternative: mordor-forge/trident-mcp (Tripo+Meshy+Rodin)."
    },
    {
      "slug": "unreal-engine",
      "name": "Unreal Engine MCP",
      "vendor": "Community (Flopperam)",
      "official": false,
      "category": "3d-vfx",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Control Unreal Engine 5.5+ scenes and Blueprints by natural language.",
      "description": "MCP for UE 5.5-5.7 with two modes: a hosted 'Flop MCP' (50+ tools, streamable HTTP) and an open-source local Python server + C++ plugin. Agents can build worlds, author Blueprints, place actors, and set materials and physics — useful for virtual production and previz.",
      "capabilities": [
        "3d-scene-control",
        "blueprint-authoring",
        "world-building",
        "virtual-production"
      ],
      "tools_sample": [
        "bp_create",
        "bp_variable",
        "bp_nodes",
        "create_town",
        "create_castle"
      ],
      "install": {
        "claude_code": null,
        "remote_url": "https://agent.flopperam.com/mcp",
        "stdio_command": null
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "api_key",
        "env_var": null,
        "key_url": "https://flopperam.com/account (hosted mode); local mode is free but requires compiling the bundled UnrealMCP C++ plugin"
      },
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "links": {
        "repo": "https://github.com/flopperam/unreal-engine-mcp",
        "docs": null,
        "site": "https://flopperam.com"
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "1k+ stars, MIT, actively maintained (May 2026). Landscape note: chongdashu/unreal-mcp is the most-starred (1.9k) but inactive since Apr 2025; ChiR24/Unreal_mcp (699 stars, active Jun 2026) is another option."
    },
    {
      "slug": "vimeo",
      "name": "Vimeo MCP Server",
      "vendor": "Vimeo",
      "official": true,
      "category": "distribution",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Official beta MCP connecting your Vimeo video library to AI agents.",
      "description": "Announced at Vimeo's REFRAME conference (Oct 2025) alongside 'Ask Your Library', Vimeo's official MCP server lets agents connect to Vimeo video libraries — list and search videos, read metadata and stats, update titles/descriptions/tags/privacy, and work with transcripts and captions.",
      "capabilities": [
        "video-library",
        "metadata-editing",
        "stats",
        "transcripts",
        "captions"
      ],
      "tools_sample": null,
      "install": {
        "claude_code": null,
        "remote_url": null,
        "stdio_command": null
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "oauth",
        "env_var": "VIMEO_ACCESS_TOKEN",
        "key_url": "https://developer.vimeo.com/apps (OAuth app or personal access token with appropriate scopes)"
      },
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "links": {
        "repo": null,
        "docs": "https://developer.vimeo.com/api/mcp-server",
        "site": "https://www.vimeo.com"
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "Beta. The official docs page exists at developer.vimeo.com/api/mcp-server but is gated from crawlers, so the endpoint URL and tool list need manual verification — follow the docs to connect. Community fallback: galacoder/vimeo-mcp (stale, transcript-focused)."
    },
    {
      "slug": "youtube-data",
      "name": "YouTube MCP Server (data)",
      "vendor": "Community (kirbah)",
      "official": false,
      "category": "distribution",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Token-optimized YouTube Data API server for video, channel, and trend analytics.",
      "description": "A high-efficiency MCP server returning structured, token-minimized data from the YouTube Data API v3 (claims up to 87% token reduction vs raw API). Covers video details, search, transcripts (at zero quota cost), channel statistics, trending, and outlier-channel discovery — the research side of distribution: study what works before you publish.",
      "capabilities": [
        "video-metadata",
        "search",
        "transcripts",
        "channel-analytics",
        "trending",
        "comments"
      ],
      "tools_sample": [
        "getVideoDetails",
        "searchVideos",
        "getTranscripts",
        "getChannelStatistics",
        "getTrendingVideos",
        "getVideoComments",
        "findConsistentOutlierChannels"
      ],
      "install": {
        "claude_code": "claude mcp add youtube -e YOUTUBE_API_KEY=YOUR_KEY -- npx -y @kirbah/mcp-youtube",
        "remote_url": null,
        "stdio_command": "npx -y @kirbah/mcp-youtube"
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "api_key",
        "env_var": "YOUTUBE_API_KEY",
        "key_url": "Google Cloud Console → enable YouTube Data API v3 → Credentials → API key"
      },
      "pricing": "free",
      "links": {
        "repo": "https://github.com/kirbah/mcp-youtube",
        "docs": null,
        "site": null
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "MIT, pushed Jun 2026 — the most actively maintained YouTube data MCP. Read-only (no upload — pair with yutu). Higher-starred alternative: ZubeidHendricks/youtube-mcp-server (530 stars, multi-key quota fallback, ~2.5 months stale)."
    },
    {
      "slug": "youtube-yutu",
      "name": "yutu (YouTube MCP + CLI)",
      "vendor": "Community (eat-pray-ai)",
      "official": false,
      "category": "distribution",
      "featured": false,
      "tagline": "Automate your whole YouTube channel — including real video uploads — via OAuth.",
      "description": "A Go-based CLI, MCP server, and agent toolkit for YouTube that automates the full workflow: uploading videos, editing metadata, managing playlists, comments, captions, and thumbnails. The only well-maintained MCP option that does real YouTube uploads via OAuth — there is no official Google/YouTube MCP as of June 2026.",
      "capabilities": [
        "video-upload",
        "metadata-editing",
        "playlists",
        "comments",
        "captions",
        "thumbnails",
        "channel-management"
      ],
      "tools_sample": null,
      "install": {
        "claude_code": "claude mcp add yutu -- yutu mcp (after brew install yutu and one-time yutu auth)",
        "remote_url": null,
        "stdio_command": "yutu mcp"
      },
      "auth": {
        "type": "oauth",
        "env_var": "YUTU_CREDENTIAL",
        "key_url": "Google Cloud Console: enable YouTube Data API v3, create an OAuth client, download client_secret.json, then run yutu auth once"
      },
      "pricing": "free",
      "links": {
        "repo": "https://github.com/eat-pray-ai/yutu",
        "docs": null,
        "site": "https://yutu.ifor.dev"
      },
      "added": "2026-06-11",
      "verified": "2026-06-11",
      "notes": "496 stars, Apache-2.0, pushed Jun 2026 with regular releases. Quota caveat: videos.insert costs 1,600 units → ~6 uploads/day on the default 10k quota, and unverified API projects can only upload private videos until Google audits the project. Lighter upload-only alternative: anwerj/youtube-uploader-mcp."
    }
  ],
  "ratings": {}
}