MandarinClips MCP Server
Server Configuration
Describes the environment variables required to run the server.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| MANDARINCLIPS_API_KEY | No | Optional MandarinClips API key for elevated quota (8 free queries/day or unlimited Pro access). If omitted, the anonymous free tier is used. |
Instructions
Guidance the server publishes about itself, which clients place ahead of the tool catalog so the model reads it before choosing anything.
This server publishes no instructions, or was last inspected before Glama recorded them.
Capabilities
Features and capabilities supported by this server
Protocol revision2025-11-25
| Capability | Details |
|---|---|
| tools | {
"listChanged": true
} |
Tools
Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| search_cinema_clipsD | – |
| get_grammar_guideD | – |
| get_expression_guideD | – |
| get_hsk_vocabularyD | – |
| get_word_detailD | – |
Prompts
Interactive templates invoked by user choice
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No prompts | |
Resources
Contextual data attached and managed by the client
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No resources | |
TDQS
Scored across 5 tools
Tool names suggest distinct resource types (clips, grammar, expressions, HSK vocab, word detail), but with zero descriptions an agent must guess boundaries. get_word_detail and get_hsk_vocabulary plausibly overlap on word-level lookups, and get_expression_guide vs get_grammar_guide could be confused.
All names are snake_case verb_noun, with four get_* tools and one search_* tool. The single search_ prefix is a sensible deviation for a query-style operation, so the pattern is largely predictable.
Five tools is a tight, well-scoped surface for a niche Mandarin-learning clip server. Nothing looks redundant enough to be padding, though the set is on the thin side.
Core content types (clips, grammar, expressions, HSK vocab, word detail) are covered, but there is no way to search expressions or vocabulary, no translation or example-sentence lookup, and no practice/quiz operation. Agents may hit dead ends for common language-learning tasks.