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Every tool Montage's MCP server gives your AI, with its options and what it answers.

Written by Ben (Founder) · Updated November 6, 2026

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Videos

Tool	Options	What it does
`list_videos`	none	The workspace’s videos, most recent first: id, name, shape (tall, square, wide), length in frames, frames a second.
`create_video`	`name` (1–120 characters), `shape` optional: `tall`, `square` or `wide`	Makes a new, empty video and answers its id. With no shape, Montage chooses.

Footage

Tool	Options	What it does
`list_media`	none	The workspace’s footage, sounds and pictures, newest first: id, name, kind, status (uploading, converting, listening, ready, failed), length, size, pace, whether its words are known.
`get_media`	`media_id`	Where one file stands, with its progress while it is made. Follow an import with it until it is ready.
`import_from_url`	`url` (http or https), `name` optional	Montage fetches the file at that address (a direct link, or a share link that leads to the file), keeps it as the original and makes it. Answers its media id.
`start_upload`	`file_name` with its extension, `size` in bytes (up to 5 GB)	For a file on the computer the AI runs on: answers a media id, an upload address and the `curl` command that sends the file.
`finish_upload`	`media_id`	Says the file is up; Montage makes it.
`import_on_computer`	`path`: the file’s full path on the person’s computer	Asks the person’s Montage app for Mac (open, signed in) to make the file there; the original stays where it is. Answers a job id. The job waits a day for the app.
`get_job`	`job_id`	Where a job given to the app stands: waiting (no app open), working with its progress, done (the media id, or the file’s path and size), or failed and why.
`add_media_to_video`	`video_id`, `media_ids` (1–100)	Gives footage to a video, so its files can use it.

Export

Tool	Options	What it does
`export_video`	`video_id`; `made_on`: `montage` (default) or `computer`. On Montage: `kind` `video`, `sound` or `edit`; `quality` `smaller`, `standard` (default) or `best`. On the computer: `settings`, below.	Exports the video as it is now. On Montage: an MP4 (H.264), the sound alone (WAV), or a ZIP for Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve. On the computer: the person’s app makes it from the originals and saves it in their Movies folder. On the Free plan the export carries Montage’s mark.
`get_export`	`export_id`	Where an export stands. Made on Montage: its progress, then a download address, the file’s name and size. Made on the computer: as `get_job`, with the file’s path.

The settings of an export made on the computer (each one optional; what is left out is the video’s own size and pace, H.264 in MP4, Standard, normal colours, AAC):

Setting	Values
`container`	`mp4`, `mov`
`codec`	`h264`, `hevc`, `hevc10`, `prores-proxy`, `prores-lt`, `prores`, `prores-hq`, `prores-4444`
`width`, `height`	16 to 8192, never bigger than the video
`fps`	Up to 240, never more than the video
`quality`	`smaller` (4 Mb/s), `standard` (8), `best` (12), for 1080 × 1920, in proportion for other sizes; not for ProRes
`mbps`	Your own bitrate, up to 400 Mb/s, in place of `quality`
`colours`	`sdr` (normal colours), `hlg`, `pq` (HDR10): HDR only when the footage was filmed in HDR
`sound`	`aac`, or `pcm` (WAV, in a MOV)

The video’s files

These are the tools Montage’s own AI uses, by the same names. Each takes the video_id first and works in the video’s folder, /workspace. Each write is a version of the video the person sees at once.

Tool	What it does
`read`, `ls`, `find`, `grep`	Read the video’s files and the footage given to it.
`write`, `edit`, `delete`	Change the video’s files: `main.mc.js`, `components/`, `chapters/`.
`exec`	Runs a command on a Linux machine with Python and ffmpeg. A file it writes under `out/` becomes footage of this video.

Read-only: media/<id>/ (each file’s details.json, takes.txt, contact sheets sheet-<n>.jpg, poster.jpg) and comments.json, the comments people left.

Questions

In which order should my AI call them?

List or create a video; import footage and follow it with get_media until it is ready; add_media_to_video; write the video’s files; export_video, then get_export.

How does my AI know how to write a video?

When it connects, Montage’s server gives it the same text Montage’s own AI reads: what a video’s files are and how they are written.

What does « waiting » mean on a job?

No Montage app for Mac has taken it: none is open and signed in. It waits a day.

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