Instavar Video Templates and Studio

Free Remotion video templates and creative guides; optional hosted Studio rendering and publishing.

What does this entry provide?

Instavar Video Templates and Studio is an MCP server entry in ChatHome Skills, sourced from Official MCP Registry and scored 78/100. As a Model Context Protocol server, it exposes tools that MCP-compatible LLM clients such as Claude, Cursor, and Copilot can call directly, extending an agent's reach beyond its built-in capabilities. ChatHome Skills discovered this entry through its daily ingest of official registries and GitHub discovery queries, and re-verifies repository facts, freshness signals, and install metadata on every run. The quality score weighs official-registry presence, a working install command, license clarity, GitHub star trajectory, and repository freshness — the full formula is on the Sources page. The install command above is ready to copy. Review the last-pushed date and repository status before adding Instavar Video Templates and Studio to a production agent workflow; the snapshot facts below are point-in-time values from the most recent ingest.

Snapshot facts

Source: Official MCP Registry
Quality: 78/100
Install method: streamable-http
Repo: instavar/mcp-server
Repo updated: Oct 26, 2026

Install command

mcp add com.instavar/mcp-server https://instavar.com/api/mcp/templates

Install method: streamable-http

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GitHub project Homepage

Quality

Repo stars

Repo updated

Oct 26, 2026

How is this score calculated?

Weighted across six dimensions, scored 0-100.
Provenance (25): listed in an official or curated registry.
Installability (25): a runnable install command beats a declared transport, which beats a source checkout.
Maintenance (20): recency of the last push; archived entries score zero here.
Adoption (20): repository stars on a log curve.

MCP manifest

{
  "_meta": {
    "io.modelcontextprotocol.registry/official": {
      "status": "active",
      "isLatest": true,
      "updatedAt": "2026-10-26T09:36:46.480817Z",
      "publishedAt": "2026-10-26T09:36:46.480817Z",
      "statusChangedAt": "2026-10-26T09:36:46.480817Z"
    }
  },
  "server": {
    "name": "com.instavar/mcp-server",
    "_meta": {
      "io.modelcontextprotocol.registry/publisher-provided": {
        "discovery": {
          "keywords": [
            "video-editing",
            "remotion",
            "video-templates",
            "creative-guidance",
            "programmatic-video",
            "claude-code",
            "codex"
          ],
          "freeTools": [
            "get_capabilities",
            "get_creative_guide",
            "list_templates",
            "get_template",
            "get_video_schema",
            "get_example",
            "scaffold_video_spec",
            "get_render_instructions",
            "diagnose_render_error"
          ],
          "startHere": "Call get_capabilities, then list_templates and get_template before scaffolding a VideoSpec. Get local rendering instructions to produce a video on the user's machine.",
          "boundaries": "Planning and scaffolding do not render, upload or publish media. Hosted production can incur costs. Publishing requires explicit user approval. Independent of Remotion AG.",
          "authentication": "No account or API key for template tools and creative guides. INSTAVAR_API_KEY unlocks separate hosted Studio workflows.",
          "remotePlanningNote": "Hosted remote listed under remotes. It serves every free npm tool plus video/carousel planning, with optional OAuth private project review. Hosted Studio tools stay on the npm package with INSTAVAR_API_KEY or on the protected Studio endpoint.",
          "protectedStudioNote": "Separate hosted Studio surface; OAuth authentication required.",
          "remotePlanningEndpoint": "https://instavar.com/api/mcp/templates",
          "protectedStudioEndpoint": "https://instavar.com/api/mcp/mcp"
        }
      }
    },
    "title": "Instavar Video Templates and Studio",
    "$schema": "https://static.modelcontextprotocol.io/schemas/2025-12-11/server.schema.json",
    "remotes": [
      {
        "url": "https://instavar.com/api/mcp/templates",
        "type": "streamable-http"
      }
    ],
    "version": "0.6.1",
    "packages": [
      {
        "version": "0.6.0",
        "transport": {
          "type": "stdio"
        },
        "identifier": "@instavar/mcp-server",
        "registryType": "npm",
        "environmentVariables": [
          {
            "name": "INSTAVAR_API_KEY",
            "isSecret": true,
            "description": "Optional key from https://instavar.com/studio/settings that unlocks hosted workflows."
          },
          {
            "name": "INSTAVAR_BASE_URL",
            "default": "https://instavar.com",
            "description": "Override the Instavar API host. Defaults to https://instavar.com."
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "repository": {
      "url": "https://github.com/instavar/mcp-server",
      "source": "github"
    },
    "websiteUrl": "https://instavar.com/remotion",
    "description": "Free Remotion video templates and creative guides; optional hosted Studio rendering and publishing."
  }
}

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