Plainly Videos MCP

What it does

Plainly's official MCP server lets agents browse renderable designs and custom projects, inspect required template parameters, submit renders, and poll output status. It is a practical fit for brand-safe, repeatable film marketing assets: trailers, lower-third variants, social cutdowns, and personalized deliverables built from After Effects templates rather than free-form generation.

Connect

claude mcp add plainly -e PLAINLY_API_KEY=YOUR_KEY -- npx -y @plainly-videos/mcp-server@latest

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "plainly-videos": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@plainly-videos/mcp-server@latest"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PLAINLY_API_KEY": "YOUR_KEY_HERE"
      }
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "plainly-videos": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@plainly-videos/mcp-server@latest"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PLAINLY_API_KEY": "YOUR_KEY_HERE"
      }
    }
  }
}

Tools you'll see

Field notes

Official, npm @plainly-videos/mcp-server 1.0.5, Node >=18, package MIT, v1.0.5 released Jan 8 2026. The GitHub repo has only 6 stars and no license file surfaced via GitHub metadata, so treat it as a vendor integration rather than a community signal. No prompts/resources yet; it is four focused tools around template discovery and rendering.

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