capcut-mcp
Server Configuration
Describes the environment variables required to run the server.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
No arguments | |||
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 |
|---|---|
| list_projectsA | Lists CapCut projects found in the local draft store, with folder, path and last-modified time. |
| inspect_projectA | Reads a project: duration, resolution, tracks, subtitles as readable text, and which material buckets are populated. Read-only. |
| check_compatibilityA | Verdict (ok / warn / refuse) before any modification: CapCut vs JianYing, upstream write guard, whether the editor is running, storage-mirror agreement, existing lint errors, and availability of ffmpeg/ffprobe. Run this before writing. |
| restyle_captionsA | Applies one style — outline, shadow, background plate, opacity, size, colour, weight — and optionally an entrance animation to every caption at once. This is the job editors otherwise do by hand on every video. Presets: bold-outline, boxed, accent. Animation slugs come from 'capcut enums --text-intros' (typewriter, pop-up, glitch, fade-in, …). NOT supported upstream: font family and on-screen position — those stay manual. Requires CapCut to be closed; use dryRun to preview. |
| import_subtitlesA | Turns an SRT file — or raw SRT text — into a text track with one segment per cue, styled in the same pass. Presets: bold-outline, boxed, accent. Keyword highlighting colours chosen words inside every caption (whole-word, case-insensitive), which editors otherwise do by hand. Byte offsets are correct for Cyrillic, Uzbek and emoji. Requires CapCut to be closed. |
| render_overlayA | Renders an animated overlay with a real alpha channel (ProRes 4444) using Remotion — motion graphics CapCut cannot author itself. Returns the file path; place it with add_overlay. Requires ffmpeg. Rendering takes tens of seconds. |
| add_overlayA | Adds an already-rendered clip to a CapCut project on its own track. Requires CapCut to be closed. |
| compose_overlayA | Renders a transparent overlay and adds it to the project at the given time. The common case — use render_overlay separately when the same graphic is reused across projects. |
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 8 tools
Each tool targets a distinct resource/action, but add_overlay and compose_overlay overlap in purpose since compose also adds. The descriptions clarify the distinction, so confusion is unlikely but possible.
All tool names follow a consistent verb_noun snake_case pattern (list_projects, add_overlay, import_subtitles). No mixed conventions or vague verbs.
8 tools is well-scoped for a CapCut editing server. Each tool covers a distinct operation without redundancy or bloat.
The set covers common workflows: listing, inspecting, compatibility checking, adding/rendering overlays, restyling captions, and importing subtitles. Minor gaps exist like removing overlays or editing individual captions, but core tasks are covered.