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Clipswarm MCP server

by Shoberman2·io.github.Shoberman2/clipswarm·v0.1.0
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Clip YouTube videos and livestreams into viral 9:16 shorts, in parallel, for AI agents

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Clipswarm tools (12, 5 write)

write = sends, deletes, buys or posts

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  • create_clipswrite action

    Cut one or more clips from YouTube videos (including streams that are live right now) in parallel. Only the requested sections are downloaded. Jobs can span different videos. Returns a result per job; failures don't abort the batch. Live results include the wall-clock range covered. Viral clips take ~15-60s each; if the batch isn't done within waitSec, you get finished results plus a jobId: call g

  • create_watchwrite action

    Watch a category: on a schedule, search YouTube for new videos about it and auto-clip the best moments into viral shorts (moments and hooks picked by the local Claude Code CLI if installed, else YouTube's most-replayed peaks, else a transcript heuristic). Anything it can't clip (and live streams, if enabled) goes to the inbox for you. Replaces a watch with the same id. Runs via the background sche

  • delete_watchwrite action

    Stop and remove a watch.

  • get_clips

    Get results of a create_clips batch that was still running (create_clips returns a jobId when it doesn't finish within waitSec). Waits up to waitSec for more clips to finish. Call repeatedly until pending is 0.

  • get_inbox

    Videos found by watches. "clipped" = auto-clipped (paths in clips; note says how moments were picked). "needs_agent" = couldn't be clipped automatically: read the transcript, pick moments, call create_clips, then mark it "done". "live" = streaming now. "failed" = see note.

  • get_transcript

    Get the timestamped transcript of a YouTube video. Optionally limit to a time window to keep output small. Read it to decide which moments to clip.

  • get_video_info

    Get a YouTube video's title, channel, duration, chapters and liveStatus ("is_live" means it's streaming now: clip it with times relative to "now"). Use chapters to find natural clip boundaries.

  • list_watches

    List watches with their schedule, last and next run, plus scheduler status.

  • run_watchwrite action

    Run a watch right now instead of waiting for its schedule. Runs in the background (searching and rendering takes minutes); check get_inbox afterwards.

  • search_transcript

    Find where a phrase is said in a YouTube video. Returns time windows with surrounding text, ready to pass to create_clips.

  • update_inbox_itemwrite action

    Mark an inbox video as handled ("done") or not worth clipping ("dismissed").

  • watch_scheduler

    Status, install or uninstall the background job that runs due watches every 5 minutes (launchd on macOS; returns a crontab line elsewhere). Install only when the user wants watches to run automatically.

Public scan report

scanner v0.1.10 · 2026-10-13 · same rubric, same numbers if you re-run it

no findings
  • Code scan13 source files scanned25/25
  • –Live reliabilityno gateway calls yet and no remote to proben/a
  • –Tool poisoningtools not inspected (local package is not executed); not countedn/a
  • Auth qualitylocal package, no credentials required12/15
  • Maintenancelast push 2 days ago15/15
  • Maintainer identityregistry namespace matches repository owner; GitHub account older than a year8/10
Overall 92/100. Components that don't apply are left out of the denominator. Any critical finding is an F.RubricAppeal a findingJSON

How Clipswarm compares

Against every graded Media MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.

Safety score
92/100
higher than 85% of 1,337 Media servers
Tools
12
the typical Media server has 7
Tools that change things
42%
typical: 4%. Fewer write tools means less an agent can break
Downloads a week
245
more than 79% of 365 Media servers with a package

What its tools let an agent do: 7 read · 2 create · 1 change · 1 delete · 1 run or deploy

Install Clipswarm in Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code

Runs npx -y clipswarm on your machine. Read the scan report first; the gateway never runs local packages.

claude mcp add clipswarm -- npx -y clipswarm
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What the publisher says

From the Clipswarm repository's README, as published. We do not edit it. Read it on GitHub

clipswarm

Open-source, agent-native video clipping. Point any number of AI agents at YouTube videos or live streams, and get ready-to-post viral shorts back: 9:16, a hook header, and word-by-word captions. Runs on your machine, with no API keys and no subscription.

Made with one command: clipswarm clip https://youtu.be/75-H-i9ctkE 6 14.4 --viral --title "Astronauts celebrate July 4th from 250 miles up"Footage: NASA (public domain). No endorsement implied.

"Get me the 3 best moments from each of these 10 podcasts as shorts"
        │
        ├─ clipper agent 1 ─┐
        ├─ clipper agent 2 ─┼─► clipswarm MCP ─► yt-dlp ─► ffmpeg ─► clips/*_viral.mp4
        └─ clipper agent N ─┘     shared queue, cached transcripts, retries

Why clipswarm

OpusClip-style apps decide for you what's "viral". clipswarm gives your agent the tools to decide, then does the production work:

  • Viral format built in: 1080×1920, a hook header card, the whole video frame (never cropped or zoomed), and animated captions that highlight each word as it's spoken. The layout adapts to the source's shape.
  • YouTube videos and live streams: clip what just happened on a live stream (start: -60, end: "now"), or what aired at 8:41pm.
  • Captions from real word timings: YouTube's auto-captions for regular videos, and local whisper.cpp for live streams. Free and offline.
  • Runs on autopilot: give it a category and a schedule ("netflix stock, every 6h"), and it finds new videos, has AI pick the moments and write the hooks, and renders the clips in the background.
  • Built for swarms: dozens of parallel jobs across many videos and many simultaneous agents, all through one shared queue. Transcripts are fetched once per video, and one bad job never sinks a batch.
  • Fast and frugal: downloads only the seconds you clip (not the whole 3-hour stream), and uses hardware encoding on macOS.
  • Works with any ffmpeg: text is rendered by clipswarm itself, so stock builds without drawtext/libass (e.g. Homebrew's) work fine.

Install

1. Dependencies (Node 20+):

brew install yt-dlp ffmpeg whisper-cpp     # macOS
# Linux: pip install -U yt-dlp && sudo apt install ffmpeg   (+ whisper.cpp for live captions)
npx -y clipswarm setup                     # checks everything; downloads the caption model (~140MB)

whisper-cpp is optional. Without it, everything works, but live-stream clips render without captions.

Keep yt-dlp up to date (yt-dlp -U / brew upgrade yt-dlp). YouTube regularly breaks older versions. This is the #1 cause of failures.

2. Add it to your AI app:

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.

Nothing above is checked by us. What we check is on the safety report.

Clipswarm: common questions

Is Clipswarm MCP server safe?
Yes, by our scan: it is graded A (92/100). Read the Clipswarm safety report
How do I install Clipswarm?
It runs on your machine. Copy the Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code or Claude Desktop config from the install section.
Does Clipswarm need an API key?
Not as far as the registry entry and our scan can tell: no credentials are declared or required.
Is Clipswarm maintained?
The last commit was 23 days ago (2026-10-11). The latest release is v0.1.0.
What can I use instead of Clipswarm?
Servers from other publishers that do the same job: Openshorts MCP server, Katto MCP server and Youtube Transcript MCP server. Compare all Clipswarm alternatives.
How does Clipswarm compare with other Media MCP servers?
safety score 92/100 (higher than 85% of 1,337 Media servers); tools 12 (the typical Media server has 7); tools that change things 42% (typical: 4%. Fewer write tools means less an agent can break). Full comparison.

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