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Cuecaps MCP Server

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Cuecaps is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. 813 installs a week from npm. It exposes 2 tools. Last commit 30 Oct 2026.

Animated word-by-word captions for your video and audio files, rendered on your machine by Cuecaps.

Installs per day peak 685 · avg 22
a month agotoday
Uptime history 5 days of history · worst day 13%
5 days agonow
27.5%
Uptime 24h
25 of 91 checks
2
Tools
read from the server
483 ms
Response time
average over 24h
813
Installs / week
npm and PyPI

What the code does

We read the source, 4 d ago · tools taken from the live server · rules 995398eba69f

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.

  const proc = spawn(path, launchArgs(profile), { stdio: "ignore", env });
  const env = Object.fromEntries(Object.entries(process.env).filter(([n]) => n.toUpperCase() !== "CUECAPS_API_KEY"));

Is this your server and something here is wrong? Tell us — corrections are free and do not require a plan.

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

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 7 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add cuecaps-mcp --transport http https://cuecaps.com/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://cuecaps.com/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.cuecaps-mcp]
url = "https://cuecaps.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cuecaps-mcp": {
      "url": "https://cuecaps.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "cuecaps-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://cuecaps.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 2

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

studio
studio_link
Returns a link to the Cuecaps studio set up with these caption settings, and the steps to give the user: they open it, add their video, click Find words and export an MP4 with captions burned in, a transparent overlay or an SRT or VTT file. The video stays on their device. Works on every plan, Free included.
styles
list_styles
Lists the 10 Cuecaps caption styles: the id to pass as style to studio_link, the name, and how each one looks. Call it when the user hasn't picked a style or asks what the styles look like.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://cuecaps.com/mcp streamable-http answering 35 ms 7 min ago

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Cuecaps — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Cuecaps do?
It exposes 2 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: list_styles, studio_link. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Cuecaps working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 25 of 91 checks got a reply (27.5%), average response time 483 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
The registry lists Cuecaps as active — why does it not respond?
The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.
How do I connect Cuecaps?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Cuecaps need an API key?
No. Cuecaps completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 2 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Cuecaps?
It answers our handshake in 483 ms on average, which is faster than 25% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
How many people use Cuecaps?
The npm package cuecaps-mcp was installed 813 times in the last week. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Cuecaps open source?
The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence, written in JavaScript and 1 stars on GitHub. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at cuecaps.com, which runs on its operator's own terms.