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Claude Code Rendex: Rendering API for Images, PDFs & Content Extraction watch_update

How to: Claude Code Rendex: Rendering API for Images, PDFs & Content Extraction watch_update

client:Claude Code transport:streamable-http tool:watch_update

Add Rendex: Rendering API for Images, PDFs & Content Extraction to Claude Code

  1. 01

    Run this in your project directory.

claude mcp add --transport http rendex-mcp https://mcp.rendex.dev/mcp
  1. 02

    Restart your session so the server is picked up.

  2. 03

    Ask for something watch_update does. Claude Code lists the server's tools on connect and calls watch_update itself — you do not invoke it by name.

  3. 04

    If nothing happens, check the server is running and that Rendex: Rendering API for Images, PDFs & Content Extraction's identifier in your config matches the one above exactly.

Adds it for this project only. Append --scope user to make it available everywhere. Claude Code docs

Set these first

Rendex: Rendering API for Images, PDFs & Content Extraction will not start until these are set, so watch_update never becomes available.

  • RENDEX_API_KEY

Same tool, other clients

This list was read from the server itself, by connecting to it and calling tools/list on 24 September 2026. It is what the server actually exposes, not what its listing claims.

Mutating and Read-only are read off each tool's name, not its schema — a hint, not a guarantee. The registry stores tool names only; connect the server for its live schemas.