Schema | Shotcut MCP

Shotcut MCP

Describes the environment variables required to run the server.

Name	Required	Description
`SHOTCUT_PATH`	No	Shotcut application executable path.
`SHOTCUT_MELT_PATH`	No	Melt executable path.
`SHOTCUT_FFMPEG_PATH`	No	FFmpeg executable path.
`SHOTCUT_FFPROBE_PATH`	No	FFprobe executable path.
`SHOTCUT_MCP_MAX_PENDING`	No	Maximum in-flight tool requests or legacy batch items, clamped to 1–256 (default 32).
`SHOTCUT_MCP_MAX_WORKERS`	No	Concurrent MCP tool requests, clamped to 1–8 (default 4).
`SHOTCUT_MCP_ALLOWED_ROOTS`	No	Optional PATH-separator list of canonical roots available to MCP tools.
`SHOTCUT_MCP_MAX_MESSAGE_BYTES`	No	Maximum inbound or outbound newline-delimited MCP message size, clamped to 1 KiB–16 MiB (default 4 MiB).
`SHOTCUT_MCP_MAX_PROJECT_BYTES`	No	Maximum saved MLT project size, clamped to 1–512 MiB (default 128 MiB).
`SHOTCUT_MCP_MAX_INLINE_IMAGE_BYTES`	No	Maximum preview image embedded in an MCP result, clamped to the message budget (default 1 MiB; 0 disables).
`SHOTCUT_MCP_REQUIRE_ABSOLUTE_PATHS`	No	Set to 1 to reject relative tool paths.
`SHOTCUT_MCP_ALLOW_NETWORK_RESOURCES`	No	Set to 1 to allow HTTP/RTSP/etc. resources embedded in projects.
`SHOTCUT_MCP_ALLOW_UNSAFE_CONSUMER_PROPERTIES`	No	Set to 1 to allow arbitrary consumer properties and sidecar formats.

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.

Server capabilities have not been inspected yet.

Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions

Name	Description
No tools

Interactive templates invoked by user choice

Name	Description
No prompts

Contextual data attached and managed by the client

Name	Description
No resources

This server cannot be deployed

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