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Kinocut

Kinocut is an MCP server that adds developer tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Guardrailed video editing for AI agents: FFmpeg, captions, effects, Hyperframes, and receipts. It has 192 GitHub stars, is released under the Apache-2.0 license and runs locally with uvx kinocut.

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Install Kinocut

Generated from the server's MCP registry entry. Replace your-value with your own values.

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "kinocut": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "kinocut"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio kinocut -- uvx kinocut

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "kinocut": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "kinocut"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "kinocut": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "kinocut"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

About Kinocut

Guardrailed video editing MCP server for AI agents. Local-first FFmpeg tools, Video Receipts, quality gates, Hyperframes, and Shorts/Reels repurposing — for Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP client. Free, Apache-2.0. Formerly mcp-video.

  • ai-agents
  • claude
  • claude-code
  • cursor
  • ffmpeg
  • mcp
  • mcp-server
  • python
  • video
  • video-editing

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What is Kinocut?

Kinocut is an MCP server that adds developer tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Guardrailed video editing for AI agents: FFmpeg, captions, effects, Hyperframes, and receipts. It has 192 GitHub stars, is released under the Apache-2.0 license and runs locally with uvx kinocut. The source code is at github.com/KyaniteLabs/kinocut.

How do I install the Kinocut MCP server?

Add the command uvx kinocut to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is Kinocut free?

The server is open source under the Apache-2.0 license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.

Is Kinocut actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 6, 2026. The latest release is v1.16.1, published Oct 6, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months and re-checks every server daily.