What can Claude Code do through this integration?

It can draft scripts, generate videos, images, and text-to-speech, start scheduled recurring series, browse your videos, voices, and music, check credits and connections, and subscribe to webhooks.

Does it cost credits to use?

Generating media such as videos, images, and speech costs ShortGenius credits, while reads like browsing your library or checking your balance are free. You can ask Claude Code to check your credit balance anytime.

Do I need an API key?

You can authenticate with OAuth or a ShortGenius API key when adding the MCP server. Either method gives Claude Code access to your account.

Can it publish videos automatically?

Claude Code can check your publishing connections and start scheduled recurring video series. Connect your destinations in ShortGenius so generated media has somewhere to go.

Claude Code integration

Create and publish short-form video from your terminal with Claude Code

Add ShortGenius to Claude Code as an MCP connector and Anthropic's coding agent can draft scripts, render videos, generate images and speech, and manage your account — without leaving the terminal.

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What is Claude Code?

Claude Code is Anthropic's agentic coding CLI that runs in your terminal. Connect it to ShortGenius with the public MCP server and Claude Code can do real creative work — drafting video scripts, generating videos, images, and text-to-speech, starting scheduled recurring series, and managing your library, all from the command line.

Create in plain English

Describe the result and Claude Code drives ShortGenius for you — no clicking through screens, no glue code.

Real voices, styles, and music

Claude Code taps your voices, image styles, and soundtrack library, so every render is built from real assets.

Draft to render in one request

Chain scripting, generation, and publishing into a single turn instead of clicking through screens.

What you can do with Claude Code

Once Claude Code is connected, you can drive ShortGenius with plain-language prompts.

Draft video scripts from a topic, URL, or your own draft

Generate videos, images, and text-to-speech on demand

Start scheduled recurring video series

Browse your videos, voices, and music

Check your credit balance and publishing connections

Subscribe to lifecycle webhooks for media events

Connect ShortGenius to Claude Code

One command. Authenticate with OAuth or an API key.

1
Create an API key (optional)
Generate a key at https://shortgenius.com/developers/keys for header auth, or skip it to use OAuth.

Add the MCP server

Run this in your terminal. Keep the --header flag for API-key auth, or omit it to authenticate with OAuth.

claude mcp add --transport http shortgenius https://app.shortgenius.com/api/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer sg-YOURKEY" --scope local

3
Authenticate
If you connected with OAuth (no --header), run /mcp inside a Claude Code session and complete the browser sign-in.
4
Verify and use
Confirm the connection, then ask Claude Code to draft or generate something.
```
claude mcp list
```

Example prompts

Drop any of these into Claude Code after connecting.

Draft a 30-second video script about our new product launch from this blog URL

Generate a video from that script and let me review it

Create a square image and a voiceover for my next TikTok

Start a recurring weekly series that posts AI news shorts

Check my ShortGenius credit balance and which accounts are connected

Frequently Asked Questions

Add the ShortGenius MCP server with the "claude mcp add" command. Claude Code connects over streamable HTTP and authenticates with OAuth or your ShortGenius API key.

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