dcc-mcp-obs

Native, typed OBS Studio control for the DCC-MCP ecosystem.

This product is an OBS plugin plus a DCC-MCP sidecar. The C++ plugin runs inside the exact OBS process, owns host lifecycle and UI-thread dispatch, and registers bounded vendor requests through the official OBS WebSocket 5.x API. The Python sidecar exposes those contracts through MCP, the Gateway, an Install SOP v1 CLI, and a bundled Agent skill.

OBS WebSocket is the authenticated transport. It is not used as an unrestricted request escape hatch, and this product exposes no arbitrary script or raw WebSocket tool.

First slice

• Exact native plugin, OBS version, PID, instance ID, readiness, and event sequence
• Bounded scene discovery and current-scene readback
• Bounded source discovery for the current or an exact named scene
• Recording status
• Start, stop, pause, and resume recording
• A separate typed status readback after every mutation
• Stable redacted errors, bounded UI dispatch, and exact-instance drift rejection

The machine-readable capability matrix tracks the remaining product domains. They are intentionally not represented as shipped tools until their typed contracts land.

Full-control roadmap

• Streaming, replay buffer, virtual camera, and outputs
• Profiles, scene collections, bounded hotkeys, screenshots, and operator status
• Disposable real-OBS acceptance
• Inputs, properties, filters, audio, and media
• Scene graph, switching, transitions, and Studio Mode

Requirements

• OBS Studio 28 or newer with OBS WebSocket 5.x enabled
• Python 3.10 or newer
• dcc-mcp-core>=0.20.14,<1.0.0
• The matching native plugin package for Windows, macOS, or Linux

Install

Install the Python control plane, then install a release-native plugin bundle whose SHA-256 digest you obtained from the same release:

python -m pip install dcc-mcp-obs
dcc-mcp-obs-install install \
  --plugin-archive dcc-mcp-obs-plugin.zip \
  --sha256 <release-sha256>
dcc-mcp-obs-install verify

The installer emits one Install SOP v1 JSON object. --dry-run performs bundle and ownership preflight without changing the OBS plugin directory. See installation details.

On POSIX systems, a successful filesystem result is a synchronous point-in-time verification, not a persistent namespace or writer lock. The report publishes POSIX_REVERIFY_BEFORE_USE in next_steps; re-run status or verify immediately before relying on the files.

Password and endpoint

Configure the OBS WebSocket password in the operator-owned environment:

set DCC_MCP_OBS_WEBSOCKET_PASSWORD=your-password

The first release accepts only ws://127.0.0.1:<port> and defaults to port 4455. A password is never returned in tool results, receipts, public errors, or logs. Use DCC_MCP_OBS_WEBSOCKET_URL only to select another loopback port.

Run the sidecar against one exact OBS process:

dcc-mcp-obs --host-pid <obs-pid>

Agent discovery

The bundled obs-control skill includes English and Chinese discovery aliases for OBS, Open Broadcaster Software, recording, scene/source inspection, pause, resume, 录屏, and 录制视频. Agents search and load the skill before calling the exact eight tools in this first slice. Streaming and scene switching remain roadmap capabilities, not shipped native controls.

OBS control is native-plugin/WebSocket first. Unsupported visual-only actions may use DCC-MCP ui-control with project-owned DCC-CUA only after exact PID and HWND binding, a fresh snapshot, and post-action readback. There is no generic Computer Use fallback.

Development

python -m pip install -e ".[dev]"
python -m pytest
python -m ruff check .
python -m ruff format --check .
dcc-mcp-cli lint src/dcc_mcp_obs/skills/obs-control --warnings-as-errors

The native build uses the official OBS plugin template toolchain and OBS 31.1.1 SDK inputs pinned with SHA-256 hashes:

cmake --preset windows-x64
cmake --build --preset windows-ci-x64

Equivalent CI builds run on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Validation boundary

Unit tests, fake protocol sessions, native compilation, package smoke tests, and CI do not prove a licensed/live OBS host. This initial delivery makes no real-OBS acceptance claim. A disposable live-host acceptance issue remains a separate release gate.

License

GPL-2.0-or-later. The native module links to OBS Studio and vendors the official OBS WebSocket plugin API header with its original notice.