videodb-director-mcp 0.1.7

To add the MCP server in any config driven MCP Client, following is how the commands and arguments will look like

Install uv

We need to install uv first.

For macOS/Linux:

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

For Windows:

powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex"

You can also visit the installation steps of uv for more details here

Run the MCP Server

You can run the MCP server using uvx using the following command

uvx videodb-director-mcp --api-key=VIDEODB_API_KEY

Add the VideoDB Director MCP Server in your favorite Client

Claude Desktop

To configure VideoDB Director MCP server in Claude, you can run the following command

uvx videodb-director-mcp --install=claude

You can manually configure the MCP Server by following these steps:

1. Open the claude_desktop_config.json file

   In MacOS/Linux:

   code ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
   

   In Windows:

   code $env:AppData\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json
   

2. Add the VideoDB Director MCP Server inside the mcpServers key:

   {
     "mcpServers": {
       "videodb-director": {
         "command": "uvx",
         "args": ["videodb-director-mcp", "--api-key=<VIDEODB-API-KEY>"]
       }
     }
   }
   

Cursor

To configure VideoDB Director MCP server in Cursor, you can run the following command

uvx videodb-director-mcp --install=cursor

You can manually configure the MCP Server by following these steps:

1. Inside Cursor, go to Settings > Cursor Settings

2. Click on MCP

3. Click on Add new Global MCP Server

4. Add the VideoDB Director MCP Server under the mcpServers key

   {
     "mcpServers": {
       "videodb-director": {
         "command": "uvx",
         "args": ["videodb-director-mcp", "--api-key=<VIDEODB-API-KEY>"]
       }
     }
   }
   

Install in Claude and Cursor at the same time.

You can configure VideoDB Director MCP server in Claude and Cursor together, by running the following command

uvx videodb-director-mcp --install=all

Install for Claude Code

claude mcp add videodb-director uvx -- videodb-director-mcp --api-key=<VIDEODB_API_KEY>

Update VideoDB Director MCP package

To ensure you're using the latest version of the MCP server with uvx, start by clearing the cache:

uv cache clean

This command removes any outdated cached packages of videodb-director-mcp, allowing uvx to fetch the most recent version.

If you always want to use the latest version of the MCP server, update your command as follows:

uvx videodb-director-mcp@latest --api-key=<VIDEODB_API_KEY>