io.github.dunfred/videoctx
videoctx
Is the videoctx MCP server down? No. It answered initialize and tools/list in the probe of 2026-10-29.
Read videos like images: index once locally, query the text layer, fetch frames on demand.
alive probed 2026-11-14 · unchanged since 2026-10-29
- Run it
- uvx videoctx@0.1.5 (stdio, probed in a container with the network off)
- Host
- pypi.org
- Reports itself as
- videoctx
- Capabilities
- prompts, resources, tools
- Instructions
- 430 characters
- Of a 1M window
- 0.1 % of a 1M context window
- Count
- 1.3k tokens in Claude Opus 5.5, exact, measured 2026-10-29. With the Claude Code prefix mcp__…__ on each tool name: 1.3k. The o200k_base estimate is 728. Counted again when the tool definitions change. Method.
- Repository
- https://github.com/dunfred/videoctx
- Registry
- active, updated 2026-10-22 · registry entry
Most expensive tools
The Claude column scales the o200k estimate of each tool by this server's ratio of exact to estimate, 1.73×.
| Tool | ≈ Claude tokens | o200k estimate | Share of this server |
|---|---|---|---|
| get_frames | 319 | 184 | 25 % |
| find_moments | 281 | 162 | 22 % |
| index_video | 194 | 112 | 15 % |
| transcript_search | 173 | 100 | 14 % |
| video_overview | 149 | 86 | 12 % |
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Badge for the README
The result of the latest probe, the tool count and the token cost. The feed has an entry for every probe that changed them.
A mail when this server changes
Stops answering, comes back, tool set or cost changes. One confirmation mail first, a stop link in every mail.
For the publisher
- The server answers initialize and tools/list. Nothing to fix.