Cliptude

Cliptude CLI + MCP

Generate videos from a saved template. Same account and credits as cliptude.com.

Also from Cliptude: Awesome Faceless YouTube Automation, a curated list of tools, footage sources and YouTube policies for faceless channels.

Set up

1. Install the CLI: run npm i -g @cliptude/cli.
2. Authenticate: run cliptude auth login and complete the sign-in in the browser it opens.
3. Install the companion skills: run npx skills add cliptude/cliptude (includes cliptude, cliptude-script and cliptude-plan).

From this repo without npm:

pip install -e .
cliptude auth login

Commands

cliptude templates
cliptude template-options --format faceless_documentary
cliptude voices --provider elevenlabs
cliptude template-create --name "TSMC doc" --format faceless_documentary --set voice_id=<id> --set voice_name=George --set generation_model=pro --set faceless_documentary_style=investigative
cliptude template-create --name "TSMC doc" --format faceless_documentary --settings-file settings.json
cliptude generate --template "Finance vector weekly" --title "Why index funds win" --prompt "why most retail traders underperform the S&P over 10 years, keep it for beginners" --duration 3-4
cliptude estimate --template "Finance vector weekly" --script-file script.txt
cliptude avatars --section mine
cliptude generate --template "My avatar weekly" --title "Episode one" --script-file script.txt --avatar 42
cliptude generate --template "Finance vector weekly" --title "Why index funds win" --script-file script.txt
cliptude generate --template "Finance vector weekly" --title "Why index funds win" --voiceover narration.mp3
cliptude generate --template "My talking head" --title "Weekly recap" --talking-head clip.mp4
cliptude generate --template "My avatar weekly" --title "Grandma egg trick" --script-file script.txt --avatar-ai-footage --avatar-intro-only
cliptude script --template "Finance vector weekly" --title "Why index funds win" --prompt "why most retail traders underperform the S&P" --duration 3-4
cliptude voiceover --template "Finance vector weekly" --title "Why index funds win" --script-file script.txt
cliptude download-voiceover <job-id> --out narration.mp3
cliptude editor <job-id>                                   # editor project id, revision, timeline item ids
cliptude agent <project-id> --prompt "Replace this shot with real footage of a TSMC fab" --items clip-1 --tier smart --wait
cliptude render <project-id> --wait                        # new MP4 of the edited timeline
cliptude continue <job-id>
cliptude status <job-id>

No template yet? template-create makes one without the create wizard: pick a voice_id from voices, and see template-options for every other field, its choices and its default (unset fields take the wizard default). Values are validated like the wizard; uploads (custom music, avatars, characters) still need the wizard. MCP tools: get_template_options, list_voices, create_template. For Avatar Video, avatars (MCP list_avatars) lists your avatars; set one with --set avatar_profile_id=<id> on template-create, or override it per video with --avatar <id> (and --avatar-engine iv|v) on generate, plan-job and estimate. The avatar's gender must match the voice. For Vector Explainer, vector-characters lists the built-in cast and your uploads, vector-character-upload --name "Dr. Maya" --file maya.png (or --url) adds your own, and --set vector_character_id=<id> on template-create (or --vector-character <id> on generate / plan-job) uses it. Motion: --set vector_reveal_mode=none|video on the template, or --vector-motion none|video on generate, plan-job and estimate (none = stills with camera moves, video = AI clips). Thumbnails: --thumbnail-reference <YouTube link or image URL> or --thumbnail-prompt "<brief>" on template-create sets the template's look; the same flags on generate and plan-job set one video's. With neither, each video picks a style reference for its own title.

To check the price first, estimate (MCP estimate_credits, REST POST /api/v1/jobs/estimate) takes the same template and prompt/script as generate (an upload as --voiceover-seconds / --talking-head-seconds) and returns the credits the job would need and whether the account has them. It creates and charges nothing.

To revise a finished video, editor opens its timeline (item ids, times, text), agent asks Cliptude Agent for an edit (it charges agent credits; reference item ids with --items), and render exports a new MP4. MCP tools: open_editor_project, get_editor_project, run_agent, get_agent_run, cancel_agent_run, render_project, get_render.

Agent-planned videos

On Faceless Documentary, Faceless Top 10, Avatar Video and Vector Explainer templates an agent can plan every visual and leave Cliptude only the voicing, sourcing and rendering:

1. cliptude plan-job (stops at plan_ready), cliptude narration <job>.
2. cliptude catalog --compact, then --types a,b for full entries (--premium lists only the premium boards).
3. cliptude plan-check <job> plan.json until valid, cliptude plan-lock <job> plan.json, cliptude continue <job>. The job stops at ready_for_edit: built and charged, not rendered.
4. cliptude plan-review <job>: every picture or clip (asked vs used, link to the file) and every graphic (the props it will be drawn with, or why it is missing). cliptude plan-report <job> adds each fallback.
5. To revise, plan-check / plan-lock a new plan on the same job and continue again: same narration, unchanged media reused, nothing more charged.
6. Render once: cliptude editor <job>, cliptude render <project> --wait.

MCP tools: create_plan_job, get_narration, get_kind_catalog, check_plan, lock_plan, get_plan, continue_job, get_plan_review, get_plan_report, then open_editor_project and render_project. The plan sets the look (theme, style, colours, music), every graphic with its own data, colours and sound, the footage under every beat, the transition on each cut, two-image reveals, and free sound effects; get_kind_catalog lists the graphics, transitions, reveal_styles and sounds (with previews). The plan schema and rules are in skills/cliptude-plan/SKILL.md. The job costs the same as the website price.

--title is required. Provide one of --prompt, --script / --script-file, --voiceover, or --talking-head. Never copy the title into --prompt. If you only have a topic, follow cliptude-script (web search → spoken narration → --script-file), or ask Cliptude to write it with cliptude script. After a completed script or voiceover job, cliptude continue <job-id> turns that same job into a full video (reuses the script; voiceover jobs reuse the TTS file). --voiceover is a local audio file (same as create.html); it is transcribed and skips TTS — do not combine it with prompt/script. --talking-head is a presenter video on a Talking Head template (MP4, MOV, WEBM, AVI); it is transcribed and skips TTS. Optional --duration is a wizard bucket (3-4, 6-8, 10-12, …). Omit it to use the template duration, or the word-count estimate when you pass --script. Uploaded audio or talking-head video sets duration from the file. Avatar Video templates can override Avatar Intro Only and AI Image + AI Video with --avatar-intro-only / --no-avatar-intro-only and --avatar-ai-footage / --no-avatar-ai-footage. Omit those flags to keep the template. generate / script / voiceover / continue return immediately (queued). Poll status.

MCP

Remote Streamable HTTP: https://mcp.cliptude.com/mcp (OAuth or Bearer).

cliptude-mcp

Unauthenticated POST /mcp returns 401 with WWW-Authenticate pointing at RFC 9728 metadata. Stdio never writes to stdout except JSON-RPC.