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. Install Uoink on Windows 10/11.
2. Open the .mcpb bundle from the latest GitHub release for one-click Claude Desktop setup.
3. For manual setup, copy the generated config from the extension’s Settings page, or replace %LOCALAPPDATA% in both example paths with your full local app-data directory; Claude Desktop needs absolute paths.
4. Restart Claude Desktop and ask it to search your library.

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": "%LOCALAPPDATA%\\Uoink\\python\\python.exe",
      "args": [
        "%LOCALAPPDATA%\\Uoink\\uoink_mcp.py"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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.