Clip videos from Claude: a 10-minute podcast in, 2 ranked clips about Mars out in just over a minute

OpusClip and Klap as their own pages describe them, checked the day this page was updated.

1. 1

   Add the hosted server to Claude Code

   One command, no Node needed. Claude gets each clip back as a link that works for 7 days.

   claude mcp add --transport http clipsdk https://mcp.clipsdk.com/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer csdk_live_xxx"

2. 2

   Or run the server locally

   It saves the clips into your project. Add --scope project to share it with your team through .mcp.json.

   claude mcp add clipsdk --env CLIPSDK_KEY=csdk_live_xxx -- npx -y github:bitgate/clipsdk-mcp

3. 3

   Add the skill

   The skill file tells Claude when to reach for clipsdk and how to turn "3 square clips about pricing" into tool arguments. Put it in .claude/skills/clipsdk/ inside a repo to share it (Claude Code docs).

   mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/clipsdk
   curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bitgate/clipsdk-mcp/master/skills/clipsdk/SKILL.md -o ~/.claude/skills/clipsdk/SKILL.md

4. 4

   Or use Claude Desktop

   Settings, Developer, Edit Config, then add this entry. Desktop has no project folder, so give absolute paths and pick where clips go.

   {
     "mcpServers": {
       "clipsdk": {
         "command": "npx",
         "args": ["-y", "github:bitgate/clipsdk-mcp"],
         "env": { "CLIPSDK_KEY": "csdk_live_xxx", "CLIPSDK_OUTPUT_DIR": "~/Movies/clipsdk" }
       }
     }
   }

5. 5

   Ask for clips

   Type /clipsdk ./episode-42.mp4 or just ask: "2 clips from ./episode-42.mp4 about the search for life on Mars". With the local server, clips land in clipsdk-output/episode-42/, best first, with SRT and VTT files in captions/. With the hosted one, Claude uploads the file with create_upload and curl first, then gets the clips back as links.