Updated 15 November 2026
HyperFrames, HeyGen's free and open-source video framework, runs a hosted MCP server at https://mcp.heygen.com/mcp/hyperframes/. In Claude it is a verified connector in the directory: search HyperFrames and choose Connect. In ChatGPT or Grok, add the address as a custom connector. Sign in with a HeyGen account and describe the video, starting with "Use HyperFrames". The HyperFrames agent writes the whole video, renders it in the cloud and returns a project link and an MP4. It is listed in the official MCP registry as HyperFrames by HeyGen (io.github.heygen-com/hyperframes).
Short answer: most video MCP servers either generate short AI clips or edit footage you already have. The HyperFrames MCP server writes a complete video from your brief, with layout, type, motion, captions, narration and music, and renders it to MP4.
What is an MCP server for video?
MCP, the Model Context Protocol, is the open standard that lets a chat app such as Claude call outside tools. An MCP server for video gives the chat a tool that makes or edits video, so you can ask for one in plain words instead of opening an editor.
Video MCP servers fall into three groups. Clip generators such as Runway return short AI-generated shots. Footage editors such as Descript and OpusClip cut and caption recordings you upload. Video writers such as HyperFrames build a finished, designed video from a brief. HyperFrames writes each video as HTML and renders it frame by frame, so every word on screen stays sharp and editable.
Which HyperFrames route fits your setup?
HyperFrames reaches AI agents in three ways. The hosted MCP server is for chat apps with no files on your computer. Coding agents use the free HyperFrames skills instead, and the Studio app shows your agent's work beside a live preview.
You use | HyperFrames route | What you get back | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
Claude, ChatGPT or Grok in a browser or desktop app | Hosted MCP connector | A live project link and an MP4 rendered in HeyGen's cloud | Your HeyGen plan |
Claude Code, Codex or Cursor | HyperFrames skills, installed with one command | An HTML project in your folder and an MP4 rendered on your computer | Free and open source; your agent's own plan |
HyperFrames Studio, the desktop app | Your agent beside a live preview and timeline | An editable project and an MP4 | Free plan; Pro is $25 a month |
How do you connect the HyperFrames MCP server in Claude?
HyperFrames by HeyGen is listed in Claude's connector directory, marked Anthropic verified (its listing, added June 2026). The fastest way in:
- Open Customize, then Connectors, and choose Discover.
- Search HyperFrames and choose Connect on HyperFrames by HeyGen.
- Complete the HeyGen sign-in when its window opens.
- In a new chat, start your message with Use HyperFrames, for example: "Use HyperFrames to make me a 10-second vertical video announcing our new oat latte. Then send me the MP4."
Name HyperFrames in the message. In our test on 6 Nov 2026, the same request without it made Claude write its own video code in its sandbox instead of calling the connector.
You can also add it by address as a custom connector. Claude allows custom connectors on every plan, including Free, which allows one. On a personal plan:
- Open Customize, then Connectors.
- Choose + Add, then Add custom connector.
- Name it HyperFrames and paste the address
https://mcp.heygen.com/mcp/hyperframes/, then choose Continue. - Keep the sign-in settings Claude detects, choose Continue, then Add.
- Complete the HeyGen sign-in when its window opens.
- In a new chat, open the + menu, choose Connectors and switch HyperFrames on.
On Team and Enterprise plans, an Owner adds the connector once in Organization settings, then each member connects it from Customize. Anthropic's connector help page has the latest steps.
How do you add it to ChatGPT or Grok?
In ChatGPT, OpenAI lists custom MCP servers for Business, Enterprise and Edu workspaces on ChatGPT web. A workspace admin or owner opens Plugins, selects the plus button, chooses Add custom MCP server, enters the HyperFrames address and completes the HeyGen sign-in. In a new chat, type @ and pick HyperFrames.
In Grok, connectors are open to all users. Go to grok.com/connectors, choose New Connector, then Custom, enter the address and sign in to HeyGen. On Grok Business and Enterprise, a team admin sets the connector up first.
What should your first message say?
Write it the way you would brief a video editor: the length and shape, who it is for, the feeling, what to show and how it ends. The HyperFrames agent plans the scenes, picks one of its house styles and writes the narration.
Make a 15-second vertical product intro for a meditation app.
Audience: people who have trouble falling asleep.
Style: quiet, spacious, and warm.
Show the breathing timer and end with “Rest starts here.”Name a style if you want one: the connector has five, from warm editorial paper to loud pop-zine. If a request is vague, the chat is told to ask you questions before it starts, so give it the facts up front.
What do you get back?
The chat replies at once that the HyperFrames agent has started, with a live view link that shows the run as it works. The video takes a few minutes. HyperFrames renders the MP4 as part of the same run, so there is no separate export step.
- A project link. A live view on hyperframes.dev lets you follow the run.
- An MP4. Ask the chat for the download link and it returns the file's address; keep the whole link, including everything after the question mark.
- A project you can revise. Say what to change in the same chat, such as "reveal the product two seconds earlier". The agent edits the same project and renders it again.
Above: the flow in 24 seconds. The message in the chat becomes the video, the MP4 lands in the reply, and a follow-up changes it in the same project. An illustration made with HyperFrames.
The film at the top of this page is HeyGen's announcement of the HyperFrames connector for Claude. The hosted connector renders at its default settings today, and the render happens inside the same run.
Above: HeyGen's announcement of HyperFrames in Grok, the same connector in another chat app.
What can the hosted connector not do yet?
The hosted MCP server is in beta. Knowing its limits before you start saves a wasted run.
- Short videos. For longer videos, use the HyperFrames skills or the Studio app.
- No editing of your own footage. It does not trim, cut or transcribe a video you link. Use the Studio app or a footage editor for that.
- Pictures by direct link. An image or a muted clip works from a public https file address or an uploaded HeyGen asset. Google Drive, Dropbox and YouTube pages do not work.
- Its own audio. Narration and music come from the HyperFrames agent; audio files you link are not used.
- MP4 at the default settings. Choosing the frame rate or WebM and MOV needs the local route below.
How do Claude Code, Codex and Cursor make videos with HyperFrames?
Coding agents should use the HyperFrames skills, not the hosted connector. The HyperFrames MCP server turns down create and render requests from Claude Code, Codex and Cursor and points them to the skills, because these agents can write the video as files on your computer.
In Claude Code, install the plugin:
claude plugin marketplace add heygen-com/hyperframes
claude plugin install hyperframes@hyperframesFor Codex, Cursor and other agents, install the skills:
npx skills add heygen-com/hyperframesThen ask for the video in plain words. The agent writes an HTML project in your folder, opens a preview, and renders the MP4 on your computer with npx hyperframes render. This route is free and open source under Apache 2.0, and it gives you every render setting, including 60 fps, 4K and transparent video. The Claude Code guide walks through it.
Want to watch your agent build the video?
The HyperFrames Studio app runs an agent beside a live preview and a timeline, on Mac, Windows and Linux. Pick the built-in HyperFrames agent, which needs no install and runs on your HyperFrames credits, or Claude Code, Codex, Grok, Antigravity, GitHub Copilot, Hermes Agent, OpenClaw, Qoder, or OpenCode, which runs free models. You drop in references, approve the storyboard it proposes, point at the picture to change it, then export.
Studio renders exports on your computer for free, with no watermark, and its free plan includes AI voiceovers, captions, music, sound effects, 3 AI video clips and 5 cloud exports a month. Pro, at $25 a month, adds unlimited cloud exports and top video, image, voice and music models. Download Studio.
How does HyperFrames compare with other video MCP servers?
Each video MCP server does a different job, so pick by what you start from. Facts below come from each company's own page, checked on 6 November 2026.
MCP server | What it makes | You start from | How you pay |
|---|---|---|---|
HyperFrames | A complete designed video: layout, type, motion, captions, narration, music | A written brief | Your HeyGen plan, or free and open source on your computer |
Runway MCP | AI-generated images, clips and multi-shot ads | A prompt or a photo | Runway credits |
Descript MCP | Edits, clips and compositions from your recordings | Footage you import | AI credits from your Descript plan |
OpusClip MCP | Short clips cut from a long video | A long video you have | Free trial, then Pro billed per render minute |
invideo MCP | Timeline edits plus generated images, video and audio | A prompt or your media | An invideo account; the page lists no MCP price |
Shotstack MCP | Renders Shotstack edits and templates, plus AI-generated assets | A request, a template or data | A Shotstack account or API key; the page lists no MCP price |
- Choose Runway for photoreal AI shots, such as a product turning in a studio.
- Choose Descript or OpusClip to cut a podcast, webinar or interview you already recorded.
- Choose Shotstack to fill templates with data through an API.
- Choose HyperFrames for explainers, launch videos, social clips and motion graphics written from a brief, with a free, open-source route when you outgrow the chat.
Remotion's hosted MCP server, a documentation helper for coding agents, shut down on 26 October 2026; Remotion now points agents to its skills.
Related guides: Can Claude make videos?, Can ChatGPT make videos?, HTML to MP4, the best free AI video editor.
Questions people ask
Is HyperFrames in the official MCP registry?
Yes. Since 13 November 2026 it is listed in the official MCP registry as HyperFrames by HeyGen, under the name io.github.heygen-com/hyperframes, pointing at https://mcp.heygen.com/mcp/hyperframes/. In Claude you don't need the registry: search HyperFrames in the connector directory.
Is there an MCP server for making videos?
Yes. The HyperFrames MCP server at https://mcp.heygen.com/mcp/hyperframes/ writes and renders complete videos from Claude, ChatGPT and Grok, and returns a project link and an MP4. Runway, Descript, OpusClip, invideo and Shotstack also run video MCP servers, each for a different job.
Is the HyperFrames MCP server free?
Connecting it is free, and it runs on your HeyGen account. Paid HeyGen plans spend credits for each minute of rendered video. The fully free route is the open-source HyperFrames skills, which render on your own computer.
Does it work on the free Claude plan?
Yes. Claude allows custom connectors on every plan, and the Free plan allows one, so you can add HyperFrames by its address from Customize, then Connectors. It is also listed in Claude's connector directory, connector directory.
Can I use the HyperFrames MCP server in ChatGPT?
Yes, on ChatGPT Business, Enterprise and Edu workspaces, where an admin or owner adds it as a custom MCP server from Plugins. OpenAI lists custom MCP servers for those plans only, so on a personal plan use Claude, Grok or the Studio app.
Can I connect it to Claude Code or Cursor?
Coding agents should install the HyperFrames skills instead. The hosted server turns down create and render requests from Claude Code, Codex and Cursor and points them to the skills, which write the video as files you own and render it on your computer.
How long can the videos be?
The HyperFrames MCP server is made for short videos. For longer videos, use the HyperFrames skills or the Studio app, where the composition sets its own length.
Can it edit a video I already recorded?
Not through the hosted connector: it does not trim, cut or transcribe your footage. The HyperFrames Studio app takes your own clips, and footage editors such as Descript and OpusClip run MCP servers for that job.
