Connect your AI
Connect the AI assistant you already use to InterCut Studio for free. Type what you want; the assistant reads your open project and does the edit for you.
How it works
InterCut Studio offers editing tools to your assistant through MCP (Model Context Protocol), an open standard. The assistant connects to the app running on your computer. Its changes appear live in your project.
- Every change the assistant makes shows up as a single step in the History list. You can undo it with Ctrl+Z.
- What the assistant sees (for example the transcript and video frames) goes to the AI provider you chose. This flow does not pass through InterCut servers.
Steps
- In InterCut Studio, open Settings › AI.
- Turn on MCP.
- Pick the client you use from the list.
- Click Connect. The app adds the InterCut Studio entry to the client’s configuration file without touching your other settings.
- Check the connection with Test connection.
- Restart the client as described in the “After connecting” column below.
Supported clients
| Client | How it connects | Configuration file | After connecting |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Desktop | “Connect” writes the file for you | %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json | Quit Claude Desktop completely and open it again (exit from the system tray too). |
| Claude Code | The app gives you a command | — | Run the command in a terminal; the tools appear in new sessions. |
| Cursor | “Connect” writes the file for you | %USERPROFILE%\.cursor\mcp.json | Restart Cursor; it appears under Settings › MCP. |
| Visual Studio Code (GitHub Copilot) | “Connect” writes the file for you | %APPDATA%\Code\User\mcp.json | Restart VS Code (or start the server from the “MCP: List Servers” command). |
| OpenAI Codex CLI | “Connect” writes the file for you | %USERPROFILE%\.codex\config.toml | Open a new Codex session. |
| Gemini CLI | “Connect” writes the file for you | %USERPROFILE%\.gemini\settings.json | Open a new Gemini CLI session; it appears under /mcp. |
| Windsurf | Add the configuration by hand | — | Add it to the “mcpServers” section of Windsurf › Settings › MCP › “View raw config”, then refresh. |
| ChatGPT | Cannot connect | — | The ChatGPT app only connects to remote (internet-hosted) MCP servers; it cannot connect to the app on your computer. |
%APPDATA% and %USERPROFILE% point to your user folders on Windows.
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