Cutroom does not ship its own locked-in AI. It speaks MCP, the open standard for connecting agents to tools, so it plugs into the agent you already pay for. Claude Code or Desktop, OpenAI Codex, Google Gemini, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, Cline, or the built-in chat. You connect it once, and there is no extra AI subscription from us.
Paste into your agent
{
"mcpServers": {
"cutroom": {
"command": "node",
"args": ["…/cutroom-mcp.mjs"],
"env": { "CUTROOM_DATA_DIR": "D:/Cutroom" }
}
}
}Claude Code, Claude Desktop, OpenAI Codex, Google Gemini, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, and Cline all speak MCP, so they all drive Cutroom.
Prefer not to wire up an outside agent? Cutroom has a chat built in. Bring an API key for the model you like and talk to the editor directly.
Cutroom fills in the exact command and path and hands you a small config. One click for Claude Code and Desktop, one paste for the rest.
You use your own agent on your own account. We do not resell tokens or add an AI fee. What the agent costs is between you and its maker.
Because Cutroom is an MCP server running on your machine, connecting an agent means registering that server with it. There is no token to generate, no API key for Cutroom, and no account to link. For Claude Code and Claude Desktop, Cutroom writes the config for you with one click. For any other MCP client, it shows you the ready config to paste into that client's settings.
The agents that speak MCP
The agent runs on your own account, so its usage is billed to you by whoever makes it, at their normal rate. Cutroom adds nothing on top and never sees that key for a connected agent. If you use the built-in chat instead, you paste an API key for the provider you choose, and that key stays on your machine.
Whose bill is whose
Your agent, your account, your bill.
This is the whole point of speaking MCP instead of shipping one AI: you are not renting our model at our markup. You point the agent you already trust at Cutroom, and the editor does what it says.
Any agent that speaks MCP. That includes Claude Code, Claude Desktop, OpenAI Codex, Google Gemini, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, and Cline. Cutroom also has a built-in chat you can use with an API key of your own, so you do not have to connect an outside agent at all.
No. Cutroom is AI-agnostic. It leads with Claude in some places because that is a common way people find it, but it works the same with Codex, Gemini, Cursor, and any other MCP agent.
For Claude Code and Claude Desktop, Cutroom writes the config for you with one click. For every other MCP client, Cutroom shows you a small config with the exact command and path filled in, and you paste it into that client's MCP settings. It takes about a minute.
No. Connecting an outside agent uses no Cutroom key and no token at all. The only place a key comes in is the optional built-in chat, where you paste a key for the model provider you choose, and it stays on your machine.
No. You use your own agent on your own account, billed by its maker at their normal rate. Cutroom adds no AI fee and does not resell tokens.
Yes. The MCP connector runs on Node, so Node.js needs to be installed to drive Cutroom with an agent. Cutroom checks for it and points you to it if it is missing. Editing by hand needs nothing extra.
You use your own agent on your own account. We do not resell tokens or add an AI fee. What the agent costs is between you and its maker.