# mcp

This server connects agents to the Primate Vision API to ask questions about video scenes. Use it to check whether a specific event appears in a clip.

- MCP server · `type=mcp` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf (Devin Desktop), Cline, Zed, Gemini CLI
- Author: Primate-Intelligence
- License: MIT · policy=link-only · description only; the file stays with the author
- Source: https://github.com/Primate-Intelligence/primate-intelligence-mcp
- Updated: 2026-08-01
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/mcp/primate-intelligence-mcp

## What it does

The server gives an agent tools to register a video from a public HTTPS URL and analyse it with a plain-language question. Results include a yes, no or indeterminate answer, a confidence score and clip timestamps. Before spending credits, the agent can check whether a question can be assessed and preview its estimated cost.

Connect to the hosted server with OAuth, or run the local version through `npx`. Local use requires `PRIMATE_API_KEY` as an environment variable; tools do not accept credentials as arguments. Videos must be reachable through public HTTPS URLs, so a private clip without such a URL cannot be submitted.

## Requirements
- Needs: Node.js (commands run via npx)
- Remote server: `https://api.primateintelligence.ai/mcp`
- Environment variables: `PRIMATE_API_KEY` — keys and tokens: ask the human for the values, never commit them or put them in shared files.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Platform CLI: remote server**
```bash
claude mcp add --transport http mcp https://api.primateintelligence.ai/mcp
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
claude mcp add --env PRIMATE_API_KEY=<PRIMATE_API_KEY> --transport stdio primate-intelligence-mcp -- npx -y @primate-intelligence/mcp
```
Replace <…> with your own values

### Codex

1. **Platform CLI: remote server**
```bash
codex mcp add primate-intelligence-mcp --url https://api.primateintelligence.ai/mcp
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
codex mcp add primate-intelligence-mcp --env PRIMATE_API_KEY=<PRIMATE_API_KEY> -- npx -y @primate-intelligence/mcp
```
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### Cursor

**Config file**
File `.cursor/mcp.json`:
```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "primate-intelligence-mcp": {
            "url": "https://api.primateintelligence.ai/mcp"
        }
    }
}
```
File `.cursor/mcp.json`:
```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "primate-intelligence-mcp": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "-y",
                "@primate-intelligence/mcp"
            ],
            "env": {
                "PRIMATE_API_KEY": "<PRIMATE_API_KEY>"
            }
        }
    }
}
```
Replace <…> with your own values

### GitHub Copilot

**Config file**
File `.vscode/mcp.json`:
```json
{
    "servers": {
        "primate-intelligence-mcp": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://api.primateintelligence.ai/mcp"
        }
    }
}
```
File `.vscode/mcp.json`:
```json
{
    "servers": {
        "primate-intelligence-mcp": {
            "type": "stdio",
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "-y",
                "@primate-intelligence/mcp"
            ],
            "env": {
                "PRIMATE_API_KEY": "<PRIMATE_API_KEY>"
            }
        }
    }
}
```
Replace <…> with your own values

### Gemini CLI

1. **Platform CLI: remote server**
```bash
gemini mcp add -t http primate-intelligence-mcp https://api.primateintelligence.ai/mcp
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini mcp add -e PRIMATE_API_KEY=<PRIMATE_API_KEY> primate-intelligence-mcp npx -y @primate-intelligence/mcp
```
Replace <…> with your own values

## When to use it
- check whether a person appears in a video
- locate timestamps for a specific scene
- check if a question can be assessed before analysis
- run several checks against one video

## Example prompts
- Check whether this video contains a person and return the relevant timestamps.
- Tell me whether this clip shows a car, and preview the estimated cost first.
- Check this video for a person and a car.

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