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AskEditor’s MCP connector is hosted at https://mcp.askeditor.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP, OAuth 2.1). It is the only supported MCP route: there is no npm package to install. Once connected, your agent works on your AskEditor projects with the same tools the editor’s own assistant uses: it opens a project, cuts and trims, adds text, captions and graphics, looks at the edit, and exports it. Every change appears live in the editor. See MCP tools.

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The AskEditor plugin for Claude and ChatGPT

If you use the Claude desktop app or the ChatGPT desktop app, install the AskEditor plugin instead of adding the connector by hand. It connects this same server and opens the editor beside the chat, so you watch every edit as it is made. The install steps live on the plugin pages:

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Add the connector to any MCP client

Then sign in, which is a separate step: run /mcp, pick askeditor and choose Authenticate. Adding the server does not sign you in.
Connected is not signed in. Most clients report the server as connected the moment you add the address. If you see no AskEditor tools, or only a pair named authenticate and complete_authentication, you have not approved it yet. Those two are placeholders your client shows; they are not AskEditor’s.

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Signing in

You don’t need an API key. A request without a token returns 401 with an RFC 9728 WWW-Authenticate challenge, so a compliant client discovers the OAuth flow and runs it: an AskEditor page names the app and the account it will use, and you press Allow. The agent then acts as you, on your credits. Clients register themselves with Dynamic Client Registration; they are public clients, with PKCE (S256) and refresh tokens. The only scope is mcp. A client that cannot run OAuth can send an API key instead, as Authorization: Bearer <key>; make one under Settings → API keys in AskEditor.

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Approvals and credits

Editing is free. Paid work (generated video, pictures, voices and music, and AskEditor’s own transcription the first time a file is heard) uses your AskEditor credits. A call that costs more than a few credits, or deletes something, waits for you: in your client’s approval dialog, or on a card in the editor, after which the agent calls again with the approval_id it was given. Prices are on askeditor.com/pricing.

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Disconnecting

Disconnect an app from the MCP page in your AskEditor workspace, or revoke its key under Settings → API keys. It stops working straight away.

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Troubleshooting

  • No tools, or only authenticate: you have not approved the app yet. Run the sign-in step for your client.
  • New tools are missing: clients load the tool list when a session starts. Start a new session, or reconnect.
  • The connector won’t connect: re-authorize from your client’s connector settings.