# mcp-kdenlive

> Local-first MCP server to inspect, edit and render Kdenlive projects.

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/mcp-kdenlive/claim

## Declared
- publisher: Manoah BERNIER
- homepage: https://github.com/mhbxyz/kdenlive-mcp
- repository: https://github.com/mhbxyz/kdenlive-mcp
- version: 0.3.0
- protocols: mcp
- tags: kdenlive, llm, mcp, mlt, model-context-protocol, video-editing
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:mcp-kdenlive

### Description (declared)

# kdenlive-mcp

<!-- mcp-name: io.github.mhbxyz/kdenlive-mcp -->

Local-first, client-agnostic [MCP](https://modelcontextprotocol.io) server for
[Kdenlive](https://kdenlive.org) on Linux.

Inspect, edit and render Kdenlive projects from an AI assistant, locally on Linux: timelines,
media diagnostics, safe project copies, clip edits and rendering with Kdenlive presets.

```sh
pipx install mcp-kdenlive      # NOT "kdenlive-mcp": that PyPI name is an unrelated project
kdenlive-mcp diagnose
```

**Start here: [docs/user-guide.md](https://github.com/mhbxyz/kdenlive-mcp/blob/main/docs/user-guide.md)** (install, client setup, safety, upgrade,
troubleshooting). The available tools are listed in [docs/tools.md](https://github.com/mhbxyz/kdenlive-mcp/blob/main/docs/tools.md), and the
planned work in the [roadmap](https://github.com/mhbxyz/kdenlive-mcp/issues/1).

## Requirements

- Linux
- Python 3.11 or newer
- Kdenlive, MLT (`melt`) and FFmpeg (`ffprobe`), installed separately from your distribution.
  The Python package does not install them.

## Install

```sh
pipx install mcp-kdenlive
```

The PyPI distribution is **`mcp-kdenlive`**. The PyPI name `kdenlive-mcp` belongs to an
unrelated project, so `pipx install kdenlive-mcp` installs something else. See
[docs/packaging.md](https://github.com/mhbxyz/kdenlive-mcp/blob/main/docs/packaging.md) for virtual environments, upgrades and artifact checks.

### From source

```sh
git clone https://github.com/mhbxyz/kdenlive-mcp.git
cd kdenlive-mcp
uv sync            # or: python -m venv .venv && .venv/bin/pip install -e .
uv run kdenlive-mcp --version
```

## Check your environment

```sh
uv run kdenlive-mcp diagnose          # human-readable, exit status 1 if something required is missing
uv run kdenlive-mcp diagnose --json   # machine-readable
```

The same report is available to MCP clients through the `diagnose_environment` tool.

Programs are looked up on `PATH`. Override their location with these environment variables:

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## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- media.video-editing (1, declared)
- dev.version-control (1, derived)
- dev.package-management (0.768, derived)
- content.writing (0.656, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/mcp-kdenlive/ (first seen 2026-11-09T16:23:55.261Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/mcp-kdenlive/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/mcp-kdenlive · ARD identifier urn:air::server:mcp-kdenlive