Connect Claude & AI agents

Slates speaks MCP (Model Context Protocol), so an AI agent can drive your whole workspace by conversation — create projects, build characters and storyboards, generate images and video, assemble the editing timeline, and export an MP4. You watch the desktop app fill in live as the agent works.

Works with Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, Codex, and any MCP-capable client.

You need the Slates desktop app installed and open — the agent talks to a local server it runs. Download Slates first if you haven't.

The easy way (no terminal)

›Open Slates → Settings → Agent Control.
›Enter your account email and click Send link, then click the link in your email. This authorizes the agent and starts the local server in one step.
›Under Connect your AI tool, click Connect next to Claude Desktop, Claude Code, or Cursor — Slates writes that tool's MCP config for you.
›Restart your AI tool. Slates appears in its tools.

That's it. No JSON editing, no API keys to paste.

From a terminal

One command wires the MCP config into every detected client, installs the agent skills, and points you at the connect step:

npx -y @slatesvideo/cli setup

Then connect your account (Slates → Settings → Agent Control → Send link, or slates login) and restart your AI tool.

Claude Code

claude mcp add slates -- npx -y @slatesvideo/mcp-server

Codex

codex mcp add slates -- npx -y @slatesvideo/mcp-server

Claude Desktop / Cursor

Add the MCP server to your client config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "slates": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@slatesvideo/mcp-server"]
    }
  }
}

Or grab the one-click .mcpb bundle for Claude Desktop from the latest release and double-click to install.

Packages

›@slatesvideo/cli — the slates command (setup, login, run, install-skills, mcp).
›@slatesvideo/mcp-server — the MCP server (npx -y @slatesvideo/mcp-server).
›Source on GitHub.

Both surfaces share one config file (~/.slates/agent-connection.json) that the desktop app and the CLI auto-discover — no environment variables.