Claude Desktop MCP integration

The user-facing part.

Connect Uoink to Claude Desktop. By adding the helper command to your configuration file, you give Claude tools to capture videos and query your local library. Claude can pull transcripts, read comment clusters, and cite timestamps directly in your chat sessions. The connection runs locally on your computer.

Run the loop.

1. Open your Claude Desktop configuration file.
2. Add the Uoink server snippet to the configuration.
3. Save the file and restart Claude Desktop.
4. Look for the tool hammer icon in the input bar.
5. Prompt Claude to summarize a YouTube URL.

How Uoink handles it.

Claude Desktop starts the helper as a background process using the command path in your configuration. It establishes communication via stdio JSON-RPC. When you prompt Claude about a video, the model calls the uoink_video tool, and the helper executes the task locally, returning the text directly to the active chat.

Agent-readable surface.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "uoink": {
      "command": "C:\\Users\\hello\\AppData\\Local\\Uoink\\uoink_mcp.exe",
      "args": []
    }
  }
}

Full server metadata lives at /mcp and /mcp/manifest.json.

Run it on your next source.

Connect Claude Desktop to your local helper to query transcripts directly.

Install Uoink