Clip videos from Claude Code, Codex or Cursor

How to connect your agent

1. 1. Create a token

   Sign in to FastClip, in the web app or in the iPhone app. Open Settings and choose Connect an agent. On the Agents page, name the token, for example Claude Code, and create it. Copy it at once. FastClip shows it only one time.

2. 2. Connect your agent

   Run the command for your agent from the next section. Use your token in place of YOUR_TOKEN. For Cursor, add the lines to its settings file instead.

3. 3. Ask for a clip

   Give the agent a link, or the name of a video in your library, and say what you want. The agent imports the video, searches the transcript, reads around the match to find where the thought starts and ends, and makes the clip.

4. 4. Take the clip

   The finished clip is in your FastClip account, like a clip you made by hand. Open it to edit the title and the post text, or download the MP4 from there. The agent also gets a download link and gives it to you.

Connect your agent

The server address is https://api.fastclip.it/mcp. Your agent sends your token with every request. Use your token in place of YOUR_TOKEN.

claude mcp add --transport http --scope user fastclip https://api.fastclip.it/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN"

export FASTCLIP_TOKEN="YOUR_TOKEN"
codex mcp add fastclip --url https://api.fastclip.it/mcp --bearer-token-env-var FASTCLIP_TOKEN

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fastclip": {
      "url": "https://api.fastclip.it/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_TOKEN"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code and Codex store the server in their own settings. Revoke the token in FastClip when you stop using an agent.

What your agent can do

The server gives an agent seven tools. All times are in seconds.

import_video

Adds a video from a link: YouTube, an X post with a video, a Twitch VOD or clip, or a Google Drive video shared with anyone who has the link. Asking again with the same link shows the progress. It never imports a video twice.

list_videos

Lists the videos in your account, newest first, with their import status. The agent uses it when you name a video and give no link.

get_transcript

Reads what is said in a video, or searches it for words. The agent reads from one time to another to find where a thought starts and ends.

get_moments

Returns what FastClip already knows about where to look: the uploader’s chapters, YouTube’s “Most replayed” peaks, your bookmarks, moments picked from the transcript and loud moments. These are places to look. They are not a prediction of how a clip will perform.

create_clip

Cuts the range you choose and renders the MP4. The agent sets the start and the end, the format (original or vertical 9:16), captions on or off, and an optional title.

get_clip

Shows if a clip is still rendering or finished. A finished clip has a download link and a link that opens it in FastClip.

list_clips

Lists the clips in your account, so the agent can check if a range is already clipped before it makes the clip again.

What the clip is

• Original or vertical. Original keeps the frame of the video. Vertical is 9:16 at 1080 × 1920 pixels, for Shorts, Reels and TikTok. In vertical, the frame follows faces when FastClip finds them. Otherwise it stays centered.
• Captions. Word-timed captions are burned into the picture in the style you set in Settings. The agent can turn them off.
• From 1 second to 5 minutes. The agent chooses the start and the end.
• No FastClip watermark. On the MP4, and on the free plan too.
• Finished in your account. You edit the title and the post text, and download the MP4, in FastClip.

What an agent cannot do, and the limits

You choose the moment

FastClip does not cut a batch of clips on its own and gives no scores. The agent makes the clips you ask for.

Posting and settings

A token cannot post, change your settings or delete anything. It works only on the MCP server.

Search

A keyword search, not a search by meaning. It finds passages where the speaker says the words you give, with one typo allowed in each word and the words close together (within about 45 seconds). Tell the agent words the speaker said.

Transcripts

The agent reads the transcript that FastClip has for a video. FastClip fetches the captions of a YouTube video. With no transcript, the agent uses chapters, bookmarks, “Most replayed” peaks or the times you give it.

Files

An agent cannot upload a file. Upload it in the app, and the agent sees it in your library.

Clip length

1 second to 5 minutes.

Requests

120 a minute for each token.

New videos and clips

6 new videos and 20 clips in 10 minutes for your account. The agent gets a clear error with the time to wait.

Your plan

The clips and imports an agent makes count toward your plan, like your own. Each clip uses one draft clip and one finished clip. The free plan has 100 finished clips and 50 YouTube or upload imports in total, and up to 30 finished clips a day.

Tokens

Up to 10 for each account. Revoke one in Settings, then Agents, and it stops working at once.

Two prompts to start

No agent, or not yet?

Starting with a YouTube link and no agent? Use the YouTube clip maker. The AI clip generator page says what the AI inside FastClip does and does not do. Our guides on hooks and clip length help you choose the range to ask for.

Questions