# video-explainer-mcp

> MCP server for synthesizing explainer videos — wraps prajwal-y/video_explainer CLI

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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/video-explainer-mcp/claim

## Declared
- publisher: Fausto
- homepage: https://github.com/Galbaz1/video-research-mcp
- repository: https://github.com/Galbaz1/video-research-mcp
- version: 0.2.1
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:video-explainer-mcp

### Description (declared)

# video-explainer-mcp

Create explainer projects, run pipeline steps, and render videos through MCP.
This server wraps the [video_explainer CLI](https://github.com/prajwal-y/video_explainer)
with 15 tools for projects, generation, rendering, audio, and quality checks.
The upstream checkout owns provider integrations, model selection, Remotion
code, and rendering dependencies.

Repository links point to the published source release. For the exact source
and bundled README of a registry version, use its source archive on
[PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/video-explainer-mcp/#files).

## Install and configure

The wrapper requires Python 3.11 or newer and [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/).
Before generation, install the upstream CLI in its own checkout and virtual
environment, following that checkout's instructions. The wrapper expects:

- `<EXPLAINER_PATH>/.venv/bin/video-explainer` as an executable console script.
- The Node.js version required by the upstream checkout, plus FFmpeg on `PATH`.
- Upstream Remotion npm dependencies under `remotion/node_modules/`.
- Credentials and compatible upstream support for each provider you intend to use.

From this package directory in a source checkout:

```sh
uv sync --locked --extra dev
uv run --locked video-explainer-mcp
```

The command starts a stdio server. Add this entry to your client's `mcpServers`
configuration, replacing the absolute checkout path:

```json
{
  "video-explainer": {
    "command": "uv",
    "args": [
      "run", "--locked", "--directory",
      "/absolute/path/to/video-research-mcp/packages/video-explainer-mcp",
      "video-explainer-mcp"
    ]
  }
}
```

For a registry release, register `uvx` with
`video-explainer-mcp==<published-version>` and confirm that version is published.
The core npm installer does not register this companion or install the upstream
renderer.

Configuration comes from the process environment and
`~/.config/video-research-mcp/.env`; nonempty process values take precedence:

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## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- dev.package-management (1, derived)
- dev.version-control (0.825, derived)
- dev.filesystem (0.802, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/video-explainer-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-30T11:25:06.409Z)

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