CapCut MCP — edit CapCut videos with an AI agent

This is a local MCP server that lets an AI assistant (like Claude Code) build and edit CapCut video projects for you — creating drafts, adding video/audio/images/text/subtitles/effects, and saving projects that open straight in the CapCut desktop app.

It runs entirely on your machine and makes no outbound calls to do its work. (See Security.)

The easy way: let the AI install it

1. Install CapCut desktop and Claude Code, and make sure you have Python 3.10+.

2. Clone this repo and open it in Claude Code:

   git clone <your-repo-url> capcut-mcp
   cd capcut-mcp
   claude

3. Tell Claude: "Set this up." It will read CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md and install, configure, and register everything itself.

4. Restart Claude Code. You now have capcut tools — ask it to edit a video.

Related MCP server: capcut-mcp

The manual way

python install.py

This creates a virtual environment, installs dependencies, finds your CapCut drafts folder, writes a local config.json, verifies the server, and registers it with Claude Code. Full manual steps are in AGENTS.md.

What it can do

Once registered, the assistant can call tools including:

• create_draft — start a new CapCut project

• add_video, add_audio, add_image — place media on the timeline

• add_text, add_subtitle — captions and titles

• add_effect, add_sticker, add_video_keyframe — effects and animation

• get_video_duration — inspect media

• list_drafts, load_draft, save_draft — open and save projects

Drafts are written into CapCut's projects folder, so they show up in the CapCut app automatically.

Requirements

• Python 3.10+

• CapCut desktop (Windows or macOS)

• An MCP client — Claude Code recommended

Security

This is a hardened redistribution. The upstream project it derives from contacted two remote endpoints; both have been disabled so the tool stays fully local:

• a remote draft-retrieval cloud function, and

• a remote default draft_domain.

config.json (which can hold cloud-storage keys if you opt in) and .venv are git-ignored and never published. Remote draft upload is off by default.

See NOTICE for attribution and the full list of changes.

License

Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (see LICENSE). This project is a modified redistribution of CapCutAPI; see NOTICE.