What can I do through this integration?

You can draft scripts from a topic, URL, or your own text; generate videos, images, and speech; start scheduled recurring series; browse your videos, voices, and music; check your credit balance and connections; and subscribe to webhooks.

How does pricing work?

ShortGenius is credit-based. Generating media such as videos, images, and speech costs credits, while reads — like browsing your library or checking your balance — are free.

Do I need a separate API key?

No. Cursor authenticates to the ShortGenius MCP server via OAuth, so you sign in through your ShortGenius account rather than managing an API key manually.

Can it publish to my connected destinations?

You can check your publishing connections from Cursor, and ShortGenius handles publishing to the destinations you've connected, such as TikTok and YouTube.

Cursor integration

Generate videos, images, and speech with ShortGenius inside Cursor

Add ShortGenius as an MCP server in Cursor and your editor's AI can draft scripts, render videos, generate images and speech, and manage your account — without leaving your workspace.

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What is Cursor?

Cursor is an AI-first code editor with built-in MCP support. Add the ShortGenius MCP server to Cursor's MCP settings and authenticate with OAuth, and Cursor's AI can do real creative work — drafting scripts, generating videos, images, and speech, starting recurring series, and managing your library — right alongside your code.

Create in plain English

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

Real voices, styles, and music

Cursor 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 Cursor

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

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

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 Cursor

Add one MCP server, then drive ShortGenius from chat.

One-step setup

Fastest path: paste this into Cursor and it connects ShortGenius itself.

Fetch https://shortgenius.com/prompt.md

1
Open Cursor's MCP settings
Go to Cursor Settings → MCP → Add new MCP server, or edit ~/.cursor/mcp.json directly.
2
Add the ShortGenius server
Add this entry — Cursor connects to the streamable-HTTP endpoint directly.
```
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shortgenius": {
      "url": "https://app.shortgenius.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```
3
Authorize
On first use Cursor opens an OAuth sign-in. Approve the requested scopes.
4
Use it in chat
Open Cursor's chat or Composer and ask it to draft a script or generate media; the ShortGenius tools appear in the MCP tools list.

Example prompts

Drop any of these into Cursor after connecting.

Draft a 30-second video script about our latest changelog entry

Generate a vertical video from this blog post URL

Create a text-to-speech voiceover for this script using one of my voices

Start a recurring weekly series summarizing our release notes

What's my current ShortGenius credit balance and which accounts am I connected to?

Frequently Asked Questions

Add the ShortGenius MCP server URL to Cursor's MCP settings (~/.cursor/mcp.json) and authenticate via OAuth. Once connected, Cursor's AI can call ShortGenius directly.

More ways to connect

ShortGenius speaks MCP, REST, and webhooks.

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