Alpy MCP Server

by tryalpy Your server? Claim it

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Alpy is answering right now. Last checked 4 min ago. It exposes 6 tools.

Turn a script into a hand-drawn animated YouTube video with an AI voice: writes it, then makes it.

Uptime history 48 hours of history

48 hours agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

525 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

What changed 5

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 16 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

16 Oct 5 tool descriptions were rewritten create_video, get_video, list_characters and 2 more

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Alpy every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 4 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add alpy --transport http https://tryalpy.com/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "alpy": {
      "url": "https://tryalpy.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.alpy]
url = "https://tryalpy.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "alpy": {
      "url": "https://tryalpy.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "alpy": {
      "url": "https://tryalpy.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 6

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

video

create_video

Turns a script into a hand-drawn Alpy video narrated by an AI voice. The script is the spoken narration only, 110-2700 words (write it first with write_youtube_script if needed). Returns a video id; poll get_video every minute or so. Confirm the creator authorizes spending their existing minutes before calling. A creator with enough video minutes gets the full video straight away, which spends those minutes; otherwise their one free 10-second preview is made first. At most 10 a day. Needs a connected Alpy account or an Alpy API key.

get_video

Where a video is: its status, progress, and, once made, links to the free preview and the finished video (valid for an hour). Says what to do next. Needs a connected Alpy account or an Alpy API key.

characters

list_characters

The characters an Alpy video can be drawn with: Alpy's own cast, and the creator's saved characters. Pass a character's id and source to create_video. Needs a connected Alpy account or an Alpy API key.

make

make_full_video

After the free preview, makes the whole video. Spends the creator's video minutes (one per started minute of video), so confirm with them first. If they lack minutes it reports that the feature is unavailable. Needs a connected Alpy account or an Alpy API key.

videos

list_videos

The creator's most recent Alpy videos, newest first, with their status. Needs a connected Alpy account or an Alpy API key.

youtube

write_youtube_script

Start here for any Alpy script. Returns Alpy's YouTube scriptwriting brief, which you then follow to write the script yourself. Pass whichever of topic, length, character and tone the creator has already given; the brief asks for the rest. Reads nothing and changes nothing.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://tryalpy.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	521 ms	4 min ago

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Alpy — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Alpy do?

It exposes 6 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: create_video, get_video, list_characters, list_videos, make_full_video, write_youtube_script. 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 Alpy working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 525 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Alpy?

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 is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Alpy need an API key?

No. Alpy completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 6 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Alpy?

It answers our handshake in 525 ms on average, which is faster than 21% 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.