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showtime is an MCP server that adds developer tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Local video studio for your coding agent: scenes, voice, music and captions, on your machine. It has 293 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with npx -y @faviovazquez/showtime-mcp.

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

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "showtime": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@faviovazquez/showtime-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SHOWTIME_MCP_BASE": "your-value",
        "SHOWTIME_HOME": "your-value",
        "SHOWTIME_MCP_TOOLS": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

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

Claude Code

claude mcp add --env SHOWTIME_MCP_BASE=your-value --env SHOWTIME_HOME=your-value --env SHOWTIME_MCP_TOOLS=your-value --transport stdio showtime -- npx -y @faviovazquez/showtime-mcp

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "showtime": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@faviovazquez/showtime-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SHOWTIME_MCP_BASE": "your-value",
        "SHOWTIME_HOME": "your-value",
        "SHOWTIME_MCP_TOOLS": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

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

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "showtime": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@faviovazquez/showtime-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SHOWTIME_MCP_BASE": "your-value",
        "SHOWTIME_HOME": "your-value",
        "SHOWTIME_MCP_TOOLS": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

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).

Environment variables

Variables the server reads at startup.

NameRequiredDescription
SHOWTIME_MCP_BASENoFolder that relative paths and new video projects resolve against (default: the client's working folder).
SHOWTIME_HOMENoWhere showtime keeps its tools, models and caches (default: ~/.showtime).
SHOWTIME_MCP_TOOLSNoall lists every tool (voice, music, transcription ...); default: the ten core tools.

About showtime

The 0.4.1 showreel: 55 seconds, rendered by showtime 0.4.1 in 2 min 23 s on a 64-core CPU with no GPU; seven real showtime films, then the features behind them ( about the film ). Download the showreel (full quality, 107 MB). Music: “Supernova” by Scott Buckley, CC BY 4.0 . Footage: NASA (public domain); photo: “Godafoss 3” by Tord Dellsen, CC0 ( credits ).

  • captions
  • claude-code
  • claude-code-plugin
  • ffmpeg
  • local-first
  • motion-graphics
  • text-to-speech
  • video
  • video-editing
  • agent-skills

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How do I install the showtime MCP server?

Add the command npx -y @faviovazquez/showtime-mcp 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 showtime free?

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

Is showtime actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 17, 2026. The latest release is v0.4.6, published Oct 16, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.