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promoshot MCP server

Name: promoshot
Author: GarAlex

io.github.GarAlex · Updated today

Headless MCP: author and render PromoShot .promo video projects (stills, GIFs, video).

At a glance

promoshot is an MCP server in the Dev Tools & Git category. It runs locally over stdio via `docker run -i --rm ghcr.io/garalex/promoshot-mcp:v0.4.7`, and declares no required credentials. It scores B (64/100) on the MCP Skills Hub health score as of Oct 28, 2026.

Source 0

One-click install

VS Code VS Code Insiders Cursor

Opens your editor and pre-fills the config. Your editor will ask before adding it.

How to install promoshot in your AI client

Setup for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, Cline and VS Code — copy-paste ready.

How to install promoshot in Claude CodeAnthropic's agentic CLI

Add the server

bash

claude mcp add promoshot -- docker run -i --rm ghcr.io/garalex/promoshot-mcp:v0.4.7

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Verify it's connected
bash
```
claude mcp list
```
Sharing it with your team?
Add `--scope project` to write it to .mcp.json in the repository root, which you can commit (with the secrets left as environment variables).
Use it in a session
Ask Claude to use the tools this server exposes. It discovers them automatically.

How to install promoshot in Claude DesktopDesktop app (MCP config)

Open your MCP config
macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json · Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

Add this server

json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "promoshot": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/garalex/promoshot-mcp:v0.4.7"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop
The tools appear under the 🔌 menu once the app reloads.

How to install promoshot in CursorAI-first code editor

Create / edit .cursor/mcp.json in your project

json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "promoshot": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/garalex/promoshot-mcp:v0.4.7"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Enable it
Cursor Settings → MCP → toggle the server on. Tools become available to the Composer/Agent.

How to install promoshot in Codex CLIOpenAI coding agent

Add to ~/.codex/config.toml

toml

[mcp_servers.promoshot]
command = "docker"
args = ["run", "-i", "--rm", "ghcr.io/garalex/promoshot-mcp:v0.4.7"]

Run Codex
Codex loads MCP servers from config.toml on startup and exposes their tools to the agent.

How to install promoshot in WindsurfCodeium's agentic IDE

Edit ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json

json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "promoshot": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/garalex/promoshot-mcp:v0.4.7"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Reload
Windsurf → Cascade → refresh MCP servers. Cascade can now call the tools.

How to install promoshot in ClineVS Code autonomous agent

Open Cline → MCP Servers → Configure
Adds to cline_mcp_settings.json.

Add the server

json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "promoshot": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/garalex/promoshot-mcp:v0.4.7"
      ]
    }
  }
}

How to install promoshot in VS CodeCopilot / MCP support

Create .vscode/mcp.json

json

{
  "servers": {
    "promoshot": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/garalex/promoshot-mcp:v0.4.7"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Start it
VS Code shows a ▶ Start action above the server entry. Agent mode (Copilot Chat) can then use the tools.

What tools does promoshot expose?

This server runs as a local package. We only query remote servers for their tool list — asking this one would mean executing it, so its tools are listed in the documentation below.

What the code can do

Source analysis currently covers npm packages only. This server ships as a container image, whose contents are not readable the same way.

Before you install

Signals gathered from the source repo and package registry — not a safety verdict.

What it can reach

Runs code on your machine — Executes as a Docker container with whatever mounts and env you pass it.
Downloads at launch — The package is fetched from its registry each run unless you pin a version.

Last commit today — Actively maintained.
Repository created 2 months ago — Very new project with little track record yet.
0 GitHub stars — Very little community usage so far.

Client compatibility

Claude Code: NativeClaude Desktop: NativeCursor: NativeCodex CLI: NativeWindsurf: NativeCline: NativeVS Code: Native

Health score

B · 64

Maintenance, adoption, transparency and packaging — not a safety audit. How this is calculated

Maintenance30%100%
Last commit 0 days ago.
Adoption20%0%
0 stars.
Transparency20%75%
3/4: ✓ public source repo, ✓ declared license, ✓ documentation, ✗ discoverable tool list.
Provenance15%75%
Links to its own repository; package linkage unverified.
Packaging15%50%
No pinned version — installs resolve to whatever is latest at launch.

Documentation

Full README

promoshot

See it work: demo.md — technique prompts and open-ended creative briefs, each given to a fresh agent with only the skill and the MCP, its result beside the hand-built reference. The suite is in demos/.

The rendering engine behind PromoShot (App Store), and an open implementation of its project format. A .promo project is a folder — metadata.json plus its media — and this workspace is everything needed to validate, inspect, and render one to stills, image sequences, or mp4 with mixed audio: no app attached, byte-for-byte the same compositor the apps ship.

The design bet is that the format is the interface. An assistant, a script, or a person writes metadata.json; the engine renders it the same everywhere — the Mac and iOS apps (Metal + VideoToolbox), this repo's CLI, or a headless Linux box with no GPU at all (wgpu on lavapipe, ffmpeg as a subprocess). The format has three faces behind one truth: an authoring subset with four validated recipes (promo schema), the full document (--full), and a types-only JSON Schema generated from the parser's own structs (--types) — and the parser the validator runs is the parser the renderers use, so "validates" means "renders".

Not the other PromoShot

This is the open engine (and App Store app) for [PromoShot](https://promoshot.app) by Alexander Garmash — a full layer / keyframe / timeline editor for screen recordings, video, and photos (Mac; iPhone and iPad open the same .promo projects).

It is not the similarly named App Store apps that turn screenshots into template videos (for example “PromoShot: Screenshot to Video”). If you want keyframes, masks, GPU compositing, and an open .promo format, you want this one: promoshot.app · App Store.

Product listing / PAD

Consumer apps: promoshot.app · App Store. Software directories can ingest this PAD 4.0 file:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GarAlex/promoshot/main/promoshot.pad.xml

Crates

| Crate | What it owns | |---|---| | promo-model | The format: wire structs, migrations, palette roles, schema.md | | promo-timeline | Timeline math: keyframes, trims, attachments, waits, validation | | promo-gpu | wgpu compositing: quads, borders, letterbox, vectors, color conversion | | promo-text | Caption shaping and effects (cosmic-text) | | promo-engine | Preview/export orchestration, frame cache, memory governor, PCM mixer | | promo-media | Decoder/encoder trait registry; ffmpeg-subprocess backend + conformance suite | | promo-editor | The document's edit vocabulary: commands with undo, the wizard's arrangement, theme rules — what promo_apply and promo_slideshow are built on | | promo-cli | promo — render a project from the command line | | promoshot-mcp | MCP server over stdio, for agents |

Build and verify

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./check-all.sh          # fmt, clippy -D warnings, all tests, release build

Excerpt — the full document is on GitHub.

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