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Video Understanding MCP for Claude Code

io.github.granitebps/video-understanding-mcp

Let AI agents watch videos and answer questions about them through any OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

client:Claude Code transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install Video Understanding MCP in Claude Code

run in your project directory

Held in this page only — never stored, logged, or sent anywhere but back to your screen. 

claude mcp add video-understanding-mcp -e VIDEO_BASE_URL=<VIDEO_BASE_URL> -e VIDEO_MODEL=<VIDEO_MODEL> -e VIDEO_API_KEY=<VIDEO_API_KEY> -e VIDEO_EXTRA_HEADERS=<VIDEO_EXTRA_HEADERS> -e VIDEO_PART_FORMAT=<VIDEO_PART_FORMAT> -e VIDEO_MAX_DURATION_SECONDS=<VIDEO_MAX_DURATION_SECONDS> -e VIDEO_MAX_UPLOAD_MB=<VIDEO_MAX_UPLOAD_MB> -e VIDEO_ALLOWED_DIRS=<VIDEO_ALLOWED_DIRS> -e VIDEO_VERIFY_MEDIA=<VIDEO_VERIFY_MEDIA> -- npx -y @granitebps/video-understanding-mcp

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

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