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Orkas VideoStudio

Orkas VideoStudioMCP Server

by Orkas
Released
MIT
Repository npm
Developer Tools

Summary

Turns a coding agent into a video studio: describe a video in plain language and the agent writes an editable plan.json timeline, then renders, edits, generates and delivers the file.

Features

  • Videos as an editable, diffable plan.json — change one line, re-render one segment
  • Compose: script to HTML motion graphics to mp4, no paid keys
  • Edit: cut, join, trim silence, de-filler, mix, burn-in subtitles, dub, localise
  • Generate: talking-head and cinematic footage through your own provider keys (BYOK)
  • Auto pipeline routes a cross-modal deliverable through one plan
  • Deterministic delivery guard verifies the finished cut before it ships
  • MCP tools mirror the `ovs` CLI one to one; SKILL.md packs for Claude Code and Codex

Installation

Set up this MCP server in your favorite AI agent — copy a ready-made configuration below.

Any MCP-compatible agent

Most agents (Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, and more) read a standard mcpServers configuration.

  1. Open your agent's MCP configuration file.
  2. Merge the snippet below into it.
  3. Restart the agent — the "Orkas VideoStudio" tools will be available.
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "orkas-videostudio": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@orkas/video-studio-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Description

OrkasVideoStudio is deliberately not a black-box video agent. A video is expressed as a readable, diffable, re-renderable plan (plan.json) that both you and your agent can edit — change one line and only that segment re-renders. The agent supplies the judgement; the project supplies the knowledge of what makes a good video, the deterministic capabilities, and that editable intermediate representation.

You say something like "make a 60-second vertical explainer on vector databases with a Chinese voiceover and captions", and the agent reads the material, writes the timeline and produces the file.

Four production lines
  • Compose — script to designed HTML motion graphics to mp4: explainers, kinetic typography, lower-thirds, data visualisation, title cards, transitions. No paid keys.
  • Edit — cut, join, trim silence, remove filler words, mix, burn in subtitles, dub and localise footage you supply, plus highlight selection over long recordings. No paid keys.
  • Generate — talking-head or cinematic AI footage and imagery through your own provider keys (OpenAI, Gemini, Doubao). No managed backend and no lock-in.
  • Auto — when a deliverable spans more than one axis, stage-plan builds the edit decision list and stage-assemble walks it, delegating each segment back to compose, generate or edit. A deterministic delivery guard (ovs plan promise-check) verifies the finished cut kept its promise — real motion rather than a silent slideshow — before anything ships.

The plan is the contract: "the footage in the middle, generate an opener, compose the stats, one voiceover over all of it" becomes a single editable file in which every segment, caption and narration line re-renders independently.

Running it

Needs Node 22 or newer and ffmpeg/ffprobe on your PATH. The renderer is a thin wrapper over HeyGen's hyperframes (pinned), ffmpeg and whisper.cpp. npm i -g @orkas/video-studio provides the ovs command; ovs doctor checks the prerequisites.

Agents pick it up three ways: as native SKILL.md knowledge packs in Claude Code and Codex, as MCP tools that mirror the CLI one to one, or through the self-describing CLI for any agent that can run a shell.

It began as the built-in video agent inside Orkas, the AI-team desktop app, and is now MIT-licensed and standalone.

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