Screencast MCP for VS Code

io.github.tmhsdigital/screencast-mcp

Let AI agents record the Windows screen, watch it as frames, and edit it with ffmpeg

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install Screencast MCP in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "screencast-home",
      "description": "SCREENCAST_HOME",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "ffmpeg-path",
      "description": "FFMPEG_PATH",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "ffprobe-path",
      "description": "FFPROBE_PATH",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "screencast-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@tmhs/screencast-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SCREENCAST_HOME": "${input:screencast-home}",
        "FFMPEG_PATH": "${input:ffmpeg-path}",
        "FFPROBE_PATH": "${input:ffprobe-path}"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code prompts for each input the first time the server starts, so no secret is written to the file. VS Code docs

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