To add the MCP server in any config driven MCP Client, following is how the commands and arguments will look like

We need to install uv first.

For macOS/Linux:

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

For Windows:

powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex"

You can also visit the installation steps of uv for more details here

You can run the MCP server using uvx using the following command

uvx videodb-director-mcp --api-key=VIDEODB_API_KEY

To configure VideoDB Director MCP server in Claude, you can run the following command

uvx videodb-director-mcp --install=claude

You can manually configure the MCP Server by following these steps:

1. Open the claude_desktop_config.json file

   In MacOS/Linux:

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

   In Windows:

   code $env:AppData\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json
   

2. Add the VideoDB Director MCP Server inside the mcpServers key:

   {
     "mcpServers": {
       "videodb-director": {
         "command": "uvx",
         "args": ["videodb-director-mcp", "--api-key=<VIDEODB-API-KEY>"]
       }
     }
   }

To configure VideoDB Director MCP server in Cursor, you can run the following command

uvx videodb-director-mcp --install=cursor

You can manually configure the MCP Server by following these steps:

1. Inside Cursor, go to Settings > Cursor Settings

2. Click on MCP

3. Click on Add new Global MCP Server

4. Add the VideoDB Director MCP Server under the mcpServers key

   {
     "mcpServers": {
       "videodb-director": {
         "command": "uvx",
         "args": ["videodb-director-mcp", "--api-key=<VIDEODB-API-KEY>"]
       }
     }
   }

You can configure VideoDB Director MCP server in Claude and Cursor together, by running the following command

uvx videodb-director-mcp --install=all

claude mcp add videodb-director uvx -- videodb-director-mcp --api-key=<VIDEODB_API_KEY>

To ensure you're using the latest version of the MCP server with uvx, start by clearing the cache:

uv cache clean

This command removes any outdated cached packages of videodb-director-mcp, allowing uvx to fetch the most recent version.

If you always want to use the latest version of the MCP server, update your command as follows:

uvx videodb-director-mcp@latest --api-key=<VIDEODB_API_KEY>