{
  "slug": "davinci-resolve-ai-bridge",
  "name": "DaVinci Resolve AI Bridge MCP",
  "vendor": "Community (flamexnreal)",
  "official": false,
  "category": "editing-post",
  "featured": false,
  "tagline": "Local MCP bridge into DaVinci Resolve that runs on the Free edition, not just Studio.",
  "description": "A Python bridge that starts from Resolve's own Workspace → Scripts menu and hands an MCP client some forty-five tools: timeline inspection, media import and placement, clip transforms and Fusion zoom animation, grade reads and writes, silence detection with marker-then-apply cuts, review on duplicate timelines, and render queueing. It was built Free-first: it runs inside Resolve as a menu script rather than attaching through Studio-only external scripting, so no Studio key is needed. The larger davinci-resolve server now reaches the Free edition the same way, which makes this the lighter, narrower alternative — fewer tools, one Python runtime, and a review-on-a-duplicate-timeline habit baked into the edit tools.",
  "capabilities": [
    "nle-control",
    "timeline-editing",
    "color-grading",
    "media-management",
    "scene-detection",
    "frame-extraction",
    "render",
    "davinci-resolve"
  ],
  "tools_sample": [
    "resolve_status",
    "timeline_overview",
    "timeline_frame",
    "timeline_audio",
    "import_media",
    "append_media",
    "set_clip_transform",
    "animate_zoom",
    "set_clip_grade",
    "review_silence",
    "apply_silence_cuts",
    "preview_timeline",
    "render_current_timeline"
  ],
  "install": {
    "claude_code": null,
    "remote_url": null,
    "stdio_command": "npx davinci-resolve-ai-bridge-mcp"
  },
  "auth": {
    "type": "local-app",
    "env_var": null,
    "key_url": "No key. Requires DaVinci Resolve (Free or Studio) open with a project, Python 3.10+, and the bridge started once per session from Workspace → Scripts → Resolve AI Bridge → Start AI Bridge."
  },
  "pricing": "free",
  "links": {
    "repo": "https://github.com/flamexnreal/davinci-resolve-ai-bridge-mcp",
    "docs": "https://github.com/flamexnreal/davinci-resolve-ai-bridge-mcp#readme",
    "site": null
  },
  "added": "2026-09-15",
  "verified": "2026-09-15",
  "notes": "Verified 2026-09-15 against the repo and npm: MIT, v1.12.0 published 7 Sep 2026, ~23 stars, one maintainer on a personal account created June 2026, repo created July 2026 — young, and the submission came from that maintainer. The npx line is an installer, not the server: it creates ~/.resolve-ai-bridge with a private Python environment, adds the Resolve menu entries and merges MCP config into the clients it detects; the stdio server it registers is a local Python command, with `npx -y davinci-resolve-ai-bridge-mcp --serve` as the alternative. Weigh it against davinci-resolve (2.6k stars, 36 compound tools, also Free-capable since its own in-app bridge shipped) and against Resolve Studio 21.1, whose first-party AI-assistant integration is Studio-only. Read the fine print: the README's live-tested matrix is macOS / Resolve Free 21.0.3.7 / Python 3.14.6 only, Windows and Linux are marked as still needing verification, and Studio-only effects stay Studio-only. FFmpeg is an optional extra download for source-frame capture. Tool names above come from the README's tool table, not a live tools/list."
}