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Talkthrough MCP Server

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Talkthrough runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 1 622 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 6 Sep 2026.

Local MCP server: recordings or public video URLs into transcript, frames, OCR, wall-clock evidence.

Installs per day peak 407 · avg 107 · +185% w/w
a month agotoday
1 622
Installs / week
pypi · talkthrough-mcp
29
Stars
3 open issues
6 Sep 2026
Last commit
0 releases in 90 days
MIT
License
Python

What the code does

We read the source, 21 h ago · rules 3dff92dd89df

Capabilities

What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.

        return subprocess.run(cmd, check=True, capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=timeout)

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This code can reach further than it looks

We found places where it runs commands, builds paths or queries from values it is given. None of that is a flaw by itself — it becomes one when the code changes, and code changes quietly between releases. We re-read it on every one.

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Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add talkthrough-mcp -- uvx talkthrough-mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "talkthrough-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "talkthrough-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.talkthrough-mcp]
command = "uvx"
args = ["talkthrough-mcp"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "talkthrough-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "talkthrough-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "talkthrough-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "talkthrough-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: TALKTHROUGH_WHISPER_MODEL (Whisper model (tiny|base|small|medium|large-v3|large-v3-turbo). Default: small. Use large-v3-turbo for non-English narration; the process_media `model` param overrides per call.), TALKTHROUGH_OCR (Set to 'off' to disable OCR of keyframes. Default: on.), TALKTHROUGH_OCR_LANG (Recognition script for on-screen text: a language code (ru, ja, ko, ar, hi, ...) or a RapidOCR pack name (eslav, cyrillic, ...). Default: Latin+Chinese.), TALKTHROUGH_HOME (Job store root. Default: ~/.talkthrough), TALKTHROUGH_MAX_DOWNLOAD_BYTES (Hard cap for one process_url download. Default: 2147483648 (2 GiB).). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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Talkthrough — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Talkthrough?
Talkthrough runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the pypi package talkthrough-mcp was installed 1 622 times last week.
How do I connect Talkthrough?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls talkthrough-mcp straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Talkthrough?
The pypi package talkthrough-mcp was installed 1 622 times in the last week. Week over week that is +185%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Talkthrough open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python, 29 stars on GitHub and 3 open issues. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.