Engineering notes
First-hand notes from building an MCP-first video studio — how AI agents can make video you can actually edit, written by the people building it.
You searched for the best MCP server for video expecting a ranked list. Here's why a list would mislead you — and the handful of criteria that let you judge any of them, including the one that launches next week.
The question that decides whether an AI video tool is worth it isn't “how good is the first result” — it's whether you can fix the third scene without redoing the other four. Here's how to tell the two apart.
Letting an AI agent build and publish a video by calling a studio's tools over the Model Context Protocol — what that actually means, why developers are reaching for it, and how to tell a real pipeline from a sealed box.
Your README already contains the script. Here's the approach that turns it into a watchable 60-second demo from editable scenes — and the place it quietly falls apart.
Hand your coding agent a video studio the same way you hand it a database — over MCP. Here's how the connection actually works, and what to expect the first time you run it.