MCP server for Clipwright: generate UGC videos from your coding agent. A talking-head clip is rendered from a script you pass in; the agent gets a run_id and polls until a video URL is ready.

Install

claude mcp add clipwright -e CLIPWRIGHT_API_KEY=cw_... -- npx -y -p @clipwright/mcp-server clipwright-mcp

Put your own key in place of cw_.... The command is one line and gives the shell nothing to expand, so bash, zsh and PowerShell run it alike. It needs Node.js 20 or newer.

Any MCP host works — the server speaks JSON-RPC over stdio.

Environment

Variable	Required	Meaning
`CLIPWRIGHT_API_KEY`	yes	Your `cw_*` token. The process exits immediately without it.
`CLIPWRIGHT_CLIENT_ID`	recommended	Identifies this installation and enters the idempotency key, so two installations never collapse into one run. Left unset, the server keeps one in `~/.clipwright/client-id`, which suits a single laptop. Set it yourself where a home directory is shared, cloned or read-only — containers, CI, copied images — as `SKILL.md` §2 explains.
`CLIPWRIGHT_API_URL`	no	Defaults to the hosted API.

Tools

list_voices — voice catalog. Free, spends no credits.
quote_ugc — estimated duration and price, plus a warning when make_ugc with the same input would be refused for money or access. Free.
get_account — balance, debt and holds of the account. Free.
make_ugc — renders a clip; this is the call that costs money. Returns a run_id immediately instead of blocking, because a render takes minutes.
get_run — status of a run. Free; poll it every few seconds.
upload_image — a local PNG/JPEG → signed https url to pass as image. Free; 20 per day, the url lives 24 hours. Set aspect_ratio explicitly afterwards.

Call quote_ugc before make_ugc: the quote is where the contract tells you what it will and will not honor. Anything the API cannot deliver comes back in warnings[] rather than being dropped silently, and unsupported fields are rejected up front instead of being accepted and ignored.

Bumping the attempt field starts a new paid render. It is the way to retry a failed run on purpose, not a free refresh.

SKILL.md ships inside the package with the full operating instructions.