codevideo-mcp

The MCP server for CodeVideo.

Create software educational content using natural language.

Examples:

Creation:

• "Build a video lesson on how to use the useState hook in React"
• "Can you create a video lesson compare and contrasting how to program concurrently in C#, Go, and Rust?"
• Can you give me a markdown blog post on how to use the useState hook in React?"

Conversion:

• "Please convert these CodeVideo JSON actions to a video"
• "Convert these CodeVideo JSON actions to a blog post"
• "Convert these CodeVideo JSON actions to HTML"

Validation:

• "Are these CodeVideo JSON actions valid?"

Usage with Claude Desktop

Simply drop the following into your claude_desktop_config.json file:

{
    // ... other MCP servers
    "codevideo-mcp": {
        "command": "npx",
        "args": [
            "-y",
            "@fullstackcraftllc/codevideo-mcp@latest"
        ],
        "env": {
            "ELEVENLABS_API_KEY": "your-elevenlabs-api-key",
            "ELEVENLABS_VOICE_ID": "your-elevenlabs-voice-id"
        }
    },
    // ... other MCP servers
}

Be sure to restart Claude after modifying this config!

After restarting Claude Desktop, if installation was successful, you should see codevideo-mcp in the list of installed MCPs:

Local Development

Clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/codevideo/codevideo-mcp.git

Then, install the dependencies and build the project:

cd codevideo-mcp
npm install
npm run build

Then, use the following JSON to run the local version on your Claude Desktop:

    // ... other MCP servers
    "codevideo-mcp": {
        "command": "npx",
        "args": [
            "tsx",
            "/path/to/your/clone/of/codevideo-mcp/src/index.ts"
        ],
        "env": {
            "PATH_TO_CODEVIDEO_CLI": "/path/to/your/codevideo-cli",
        }
    }
    // ... other MCP servers

Known Issues

• Currently, creating entire courses seems to be a bit flakey and perhaps too large for the context window for Claude. We're working on refining the full course flow. Single lesson generation seems to work well.