Connect Popcorn to your AI agent

Popcorn lets your AI agent create videos for you. Connect it once, then ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Tasklet, or another MCP-compatible agent to make a movie. Popcorn handles the work in the background.

Server URL:

https://api.popcorn.co/mcp

Transport: Streamable HTTP

Quick start

1. Describe the video

Give your agent a brief, a style, or a tiny spark of an idea.

2. Let Popcorn work

Your agent starts the movie and checks progress for you.

3. Get the movie

When it’s ready, your agent brings the finished video link back to chat.

Start here: copy this to your agent

In many agents, this prompt is all you need. Paste it in and the agent will guide the setup. If it supports OAuth, it should choose that first.

Please connect to the Popcorn MCP server.

MCP URL:
https://api.popcorn.co/mcp

If you support OAuth, use one-click connect.
If you do not support OAuth, ask me for a Popcorn security token and help me add it safely.

Once connected, tell me what I can do with Popcorn.

Two ways to connect

One-click connect (OAuth) Recommended. Paste the URL into your agent, sign in, approve. No keys to copy.

Security token Fallback for clients that need a bearer header. Generate a pk_live_… token in your profile.

Make your agent smarter with the Popcorn skill

Drop the Popcorn skill into Claude, Tasklet, or any agent that supports external skills. It teaches the agent how to use the Popcorn MCP tools, how to keep polling until a movie is done, and how to hand back both the video URL and a studio link.

Pick your client

Each guide is the shortest possible setup for that client.

Claude Mac App

ChatGPT

Claude Code

Cursor

Windsurf

VS Code

Zed

Tasklet

Other MCP clients

What your agent gets

Once connected, your agent can make and iterate on movies, use your saved characters and sets, and check your account:

| Tool | What it does | | --- | --- | | create_movie | Kicks off a new movie from a natural-language brief. Returns immediately with a movie id. | | get_movie | Polls the status of a movie. When complete, returns the video URL and a studio link. | | send_movie_message | Sends a follow-up chat message to an existing movie — same as typing in the studio chat. | | get_movie_messages | Reads the recent chat transcript so the agent can see Popp’s reply. | | list_movies | Lists your past movies, newest first. | | search_elements | Finds your reusable characters, props, and sets to bring into a movie. | | get_balance | Your remaining credits. | | get_user_plan | Your subscription and plan details. |

If you have a Showrunner project — an ongoing body of video work with an AI Showrunner managing it — your agent can work with that too: list your projects, read a project’s chat, and send direction to its Showrunner. Those tools only appear when the connection has the showrunner permission: a security token always has it, and an OAuth connection has it if you approved it during sign-in.

See the full Tools reference.

Sending Popcorn a file

Got a reference photo, a style guide, a voice sample, or a script? Your agent can send it along — but not through a tool, because MCP tool arguments are JSON and can’t carry a file. It uploads the file over plain HTTP first, then puts the returned link in a message.

See Attaching files for the two steps. The Popcorn skill teaches your agent to do this on its own.

Try it

Open a new chat in your connected agent and try a prompt like:

Use Popcorn to make me a 10-second cinematic shot of a fox running through a misty forest at sunrise. When it’s done, send me the link.

Your agent will start the movie and poll until it’s ready. Movies typically take 2–10 minutes depending on length and complexity.