MCP
Search AI-made motion videos, pull their original prompts and browse motion tools and studios from any MCP client.
The MotionVideo MCP server brings the motionvideo.xyz catalog into any MCP client. Your agent can search AI-made motion videos, pull the original prompts behind them, and browse the motion tools and studios around them. The catalog tools are free and need no sign-in. With a Pro or Business plan, signing in with your motionvideo.xyz account also unlocks the Pro tools, which search Moves and pull their full prompts. The source is MIT-licensed on GitHub (opens in a new tab). For a short overview, see the MotionVideo MCP page.
The server provides:
- Four free read-only tools:
search-videos,get-video,list-categoriesandbrowse-directory. - Two Pro tools:
search-movesandget-move-prompt. They need you to sign in with an account that has Pro or Business. - Two resources:
motionvideo://catalog/overviewandmotionvideo://videos/{slug}. They need a free sign-in. - One prompt:
remix-video. It turns an entry's original prompt into a brief your agent can adapt. It needs a free sign-in. - One skill:
motionvideo. It teaches agents the search → pull prompt → adapt → credit workflow. The plugin bundles include it.
Server
https://mcp.motionvideo.xyz/mcp| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Transport | Streamable HTTP |
| Authentication | OAuth 2.1 sign-in with your motionvideo.xyz account, only where needed. The catalog tools work anonymously. The resources and the remix-video prompt need a free sign-in. The Pro tools need a Pro or Business plan. |
| Access | Read-only. Nothing on the site can be changed from chat. |
| Data | Fetched live from the site's public catalog endpoints. The Pro tools read the site's /api/mcp/moves endpoint with your sign-in. |
| License | MIT. The MotionVideo brand and catalog content belong to motionvideo.xyz. |
Every tool returns two things: a plain-text summary the model can read, and structured content that matches the fields listed below. search-videos and get-video also show interactive views in clients that display them.
Tools
search-videos
Searches the catalog by keywords, content category, or both. Results are sorted by publish date. The tool shows an interactive video-gallery view with hover previews and an inline player.
| Argument | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
query | string, optional | Keywords. Every word must appear in the title, prompt, creator handle or content tags. Matching ignores case. |
category | string, optional | One content category id. The ids are listed under categories. |
type | prompt or skill, optional | Only entries that shared a prompt, or only entries that shipped a skill. |
sort | newest or oldest, optional | Sort by publish date. Defaults to newest. |
limit | integer, optional | How many results to return, 1 to 30. Defaults to 12. |
Returns total (matches before the limit), shown (results returned) and videos, a list of video summaries:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
slug | Stable catalog id, for example stephanlivera-df17a2 |
title, description | Entry title and description |
handle, avatar | The creator's X handle and avatar image URL |
date | Publish date, YYYY-MM-DD |
contentTags | Content categories |
tags | Entry tags, such as prompt and skill |
promptShared | Whether the original prompt is public |
model, effort, iterations | How the video was made, as the creator reported it. Effort is medium, high or max. Iterations is one-shot, few-rounds or many-rounds. |
poster, preview, video | Poster image, short looping preview MP4 and full video MP4 URLs |
width, height | Video size in pixels |
pageUrl | The entry's page on motionvideo.xyz |
The text summary lists each match as title, creator, model and page URL. When there are more matches than results, it suggests raising the limit or narrowing the query.
get-video
Gets one catalog entry: the original prompt, how it was made, media links and neighbouring entries. The tool shows a video-detail view with a player, the prompt, metadata, and copy and remix actions.
| Argument | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
slug | string, required | Catalog slug from search-videos, for example twoclipping-5cba86 |
Returns every search-videos summary field, plus:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
prompt | The original prompt, as the creator shared it. Missing when no prompt was shared. |
stack | The tools the creator used, when reported |
category, categoryUrl | The primary content category and its page on motionvideo.xyz |
neighbours | previous and next slugs in the same category |
tweetUrl | The original post, when there is one |
skillUrl | The skill the creator shipped, when there is one |
If no entry matches the slug, the tool returns an error that lists up to five entries with similar titles.
list-categories
Lists the catalog's content categories with video counts and descriptions. Call it before search-videos to choose a category filter. It takes no arguments.
Returns categories, a list of entries with id, label, description, count and url (the category's page on motionvideo.xyz).
browse-directory
Browses the motionvideo.xyz directories. The tools section has motion tools, editors, AI generators and resource sites. The studios section has motion studios for hire.
| Argument | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
section | tools or studios, optional | Which directory to browse. Defaults to tools. |
query | string, optional | Keywords matched against name, description and category. Every word must match. |
category | string, optional | Exact category, for example AI, Editor, Motion or Studio. Matching ignores case. |
limit | integer, optional | How many entries to return, 1 to 120. Defaults to 24. |
Returns section, total, shown, categories (every category in that section) and entries. Each entry has id, name, description, category, url and cover.
Pro tools
With a Pro or Business plan, two more tools search the Moves library and return each move's full, copy-ready prompt. They use your motionvideo.xyz account, so there's no key to copy or paste. The free tools keep working with or without a sign-in.
Sign in with your account
- Ask your agent for a move, or call
search-movesorget-move-prompt. The first time, your MCP client opens the motionvideo.xyz sign-in. - Sign in with the email on your plan. On a Business plan, teammates sign in with the email they were invited with.
- Approve the connection on the consent page.
Your client registers itself with motionvideo.xyz and keeps the sign-in, so you don't add anything to its config. Every client in Connect your client uses the same server URL.
| What | Needs |
|---|---|
search-videos, get-video, list-categories, browse-directory | Nothing. They work without signing in. |
Resources and the remix-video prompt | A free motionvideo.xyz sign-in |
search-moves, get-move-prompt | A sign-in with a Pro or Business plan, or a Business seat |
The Pro tools work while the signed-in account has an active Pro or Business plan or holds a Business seat. Without one, they return an error that links to plans. If your sign-in expires or is no longer valid, sign in again from your MCP client.
search-moves
Searches the Moves library.
| Argument | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
query | string, optional | Keywords matched against the move's name, other names, summary and "good for" tags. Matching ignores case. |
family | string, optional | One move family: timing, type, transitions, ui, vector, generative, camera, texture, data or sound. |
limit | integer, optional | How many results to return, 1 to 30. Defaults to 12. |
Returns total, shown and moves, a list with slug, name, family, summary, aka, goodFor and pageUrl (the move's page on motionvideo.xyz).
get-move-prompt
Gets one move's copy-ready prompt.
| Argument | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
slug | string, required | Move slug from search-moves |
Returns slug, name, family, summary, prompt (the copy-ready prompt), parameters (the knobs worth naming in a prompt, such as stagger or easing values) and pageUrl.
Categories
These ids work with the category argument of search-videos. list-categories returns them with current counts.
| Id | Label | Covers |
|---|---|---|
product-ui | Product UI | Buttons, loaders, music players, menus, toasts and other product UI interactions |
phone | Phone | Phone mockups, app flows and screen-on-screen animations |
charts | Charts | Animated charts, dashboards and infographic motion |
diagrams | Diagrams | Flowcharts, system maps and process animations |
kinetic-type | Kinetic type | Type-led videos, text animation and lyric motion |
shapes | Shapes | Morphs, geometry and graphic shape animation |
particles | Particles | Physics-driven, generative and reactive effects |
characters | Characters | Animated mascots, figures and character-driven storytelling |
photos | Photos | Animated photos, collages and cutout videos |
music | Music | Audio-reactive visuals, lyric videos and beat-synced edits |
code | Code | Terminal, coding and software-style motion |
Resources
| URI | Returns |
|---|---|
motionvideo://catalog/overview | JSON summary of the catalog: totalVideos, videosWithPrompt, categories (the same entries as list-categories), directories (each section with its total and categories), importedAt and site |
motionvideo://videos/{slug} | JSON for one full catalog entry, with the same fields as get-video. The server completes slugs for clients that ask. |
Prompt: remix-video
remix-video builds a brief from a catalog entry's original prompt, so your agent can adapt it.
| Argument | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
slug | Yes | Catalog video slug, for example stephanlivera-df17a2. The server completes slugs for clients that ask. |
direction | No | A new direction: brand, subject, palette, duration or platform changes |
The brief contains:
- The entry's title, creator and page, plus the original post when there is one.
- How the video was made: model, effort, iterations and stack.
- The original prompt. If the creator didn't share one, the brief says to use the video as a visual reference only.
- Your direction. Without one, the brief tells the agent to ask for the brand, copy, palette, duration and aspect ratio before building.
- What to deliver: keep the choreography, timing structure and constraints that make the original work, swap in your content, and build the video in your stack. It also asks the agent to credit the source page when it shares the result.
The motionvideo skill
The plugin bundles include a short skill, motionvideo. Your agent uses it when you want motion design inspiration, ask for "a video like this", or want to adapt an existing motion video prompt. It follows five steps:
- Find references with
search-videos. Uselist-categoriesto understand the categories. - Read the original prompt, model and media links with
get-video. - Adapt the prompt to your brief. Keep the choreography, timing structure and constraints that work. Swap in your brand, copy, palette, aspect ratio and audio.
- Build the video in your stack and ask before making brand-critical choices.
- Credit the source by linking the video's
pageUrl.
When you need production help, browse-directory lists tools and studios.
Connect your client
Every client uses the same server URL. You don't set up any auth in the client: the catalog tools work right away, and when a resource, the prompt or a Pro tool needs a sign-in, your client opens the motionvideo.xyz sign-in.
Open Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector and paste the server URL. The catalog tools work without signing in.
Plugin and bundles
The repository is also a plugin marketplace. One Agent Plugin (opens in a new tab) folder, plugins/motionvideo/, works with ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Kiro, ZCode, Droid, Devin and Kimi Code. Gemini CLI and Antigravity get their own native bundles. Each one wires the same server and ships the motionvideo skill.
.claude-plugin/plugin.json Claude manifest
.mcp.json Claude MCP wiring
plugin.json OpenAI portable manifest
mcp.json portable MCP wiring (streamable-http, no auth)
kimi.plugin.json Kimi Code manifest
skills/motionvideo/ the motionvideo skill
assets/ icon and screenshots
README.md listing description| File or folder | For |
|---|---|
.claude-plugin/marketplace.json | Claude Code marketplace. Droid and ZCode also read it. |
.agents/plugins/marketplace.json | ChatGPT desktop and Codex repository marketplace |
gemini-extension.json | Gemini CLI extension, at the repository root |
kimi.plugin.json | Kimi Code, at the repository root |
plugins/antigravity/ | Antigravity bundle: plugin.json, mcp_config.json and the skill |
To test the plugin from a local clone of the repository in Claude Code, run claude --plugin-dir ./plugins/motionvideo. The skill appears as /motionvideo:motionvideo.
Caching
The server doesn't store the catalog. It reads it from the site's public JSON endpoints: /api/catalog (opens in a new tab) for videos and /api/catalog/directories (opens in a new tab) for tools and studios. It keeps each document in memory for 10 minutes, then checks it again with its ETag. New catalog entries can take up to 10 minutes to show up in MCP results.
If the site can't be reached, the server keeps serving its last good copy and tries again after a minute. If it has no copy yet, tools return an error saying the catalog is temporarily unavailable. Retry in a moment.
The Pro tools read moves from the site's /api/mcp/moves endpoint, passing along the access token from your sign-in. The site checks the account's plan and returns the moves only for Pro, Business or a Business seat. search-moves keeps the moves list in memory for 10 minutes per signed-in account. get-move-prompt fetches the move on every call. If the site can't reach its database, the Pro tools return an error. Retry in a moment.
Local development
The server is a Node project managed with pnpm:
git clone https://github.com/motionvideohq/motionvideo-mcp && cd motionvideo-mcp
pnpm install
pnpm dev # dev server + Inspector at http://localhost:3000/mcp/inspector
pnpm typecheck # refresh view types and run tsc
pnpm build # production build in .mcp-use/build/To test against a local checkout of the motionvideo.xyz site instead of the live site, set MOTIONVIDEO_SITE_URL to your site's URL:
MOTIONVIDEO_SITE_URL=http://localhost:3000 pnpm dev