Clypmint B-Roll MCP server

Clypmint B-Roll

B-roll for agents. One call returns real photos and footage of exactly what your script says: the person, the company, the app, the place, the moment. Every shot is checked by a vision model, scored 0-10, and labelled with its license.

claude mcp add --transport http clypmint-broll https://clypmint.com/mcp/broll \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $CLYPMINT_API_KEY"

Then ask your agent: "find b-roll for every name in this script."

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Why

AI video agents are good at scripts and voices. They are bad at pictures. They reach for stock ("a man at a laptop") or scrape image search and get watermarks, fan art and the wrong person.

Clypmint B-Roll gives the agent the shot an editor would pick:

On 69 real subjects named in Clypmint customer edits, it found a shot scoring 7+/10 for 62%, against 23% for the web image search pipeline we used before. A search takes about 5 seconds.

How it works

1. Plan. Send the subject and, ideally, the line it plays over. The line decides which "Claude" or "Apple" you mean.
2. Find. We look up what the name means (Wikidata), then search sources that publish for reuse: Wikimedia Commons, NASA, Internet Archive public-domain film, the subject's own website and its official YouTube channel.
3. Check. One vision call scores every candidate against what the shot must show. Wrong person, watermark, collage, book cover: dropped.
4. Drop it in. Each image has a download_url at a working size (at most 1920 px). Each video has one command that cuts just the seconds you need, or records the live site, on your machine.

Use it

MCP (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, any MCP client)

Server: https://clypmint.com/mcp/broll · tools: findbroll, planbroll, broll_usage · listed on the official MCP registry as com.clypmint/broll

Cursor (~/.cursor/mcp.json)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "clypmint-broll": {
      "url": "https://clypmint.com/mcp/broll",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer cm_live_YOUR_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

Codex (~/.codex/config.toml)

[mcp_servers.clypmint-broll]
url = "https://clypmint.com/mcp/broll"
bearer_token_env_var = "CLYPMINT_API_KEY"

REST

curl https://clypmint.com/api/v1/broll/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CLYPMINT_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query": "Sam Altman", "context": "Sam Altman just walked on stage", "type": "image", "limit": 1}'

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.