What is davinci-resolve-mcp CLAUDE.md?

A project instruction file for building an MCP server that controls DaVinci Resolve Free through an internal Lua bridge. MCP is a standard way for AI tools to call software functions.

Use it when adding or changing Resolve operations, the Python bridge client, or MCP tools. It explains where each part belongs and how requests and responses move between them.

It records the verified architecture and the limitation that Resolve Free blocks scripting from outside the application. This prevents developers from rebuilding an approach that only works with Resolve Studio.

How mateo-khalil/davinci-resolve-mcp configures Claude Code

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to mateo-khalil/davinci-resolve-mcp. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

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Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mateo-khalil/davinci-resolve-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 445 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 445 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00445	$0.00445
Opus 5	$0.00222	$0.00222
Sonnet 5	$0.00089	$0.00089
Haiku 4.5	$0.00044	$0.00044

Measured 9d ago against content hash a58a723bba19, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

davinci-resolve-mcp CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

CLAUDE.md · 35 lines

What it actually says

Claude Code Instructions

This is a from-scratch MCP server for DaVinci Resolve Free/Community edition. It is NOT the upstream samuelgursky project (that requires Studio); we reset git and rebuilt around a bridge architecture. The original is at https://github.com/samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp if you need to reference a tool design — port ideas, don't assume its code works on Free.

Core constraint (verified, do not re-litigate)

Resolve Free blocks EXTERNAL scripting: a separate process calling scriptapp("Resolve") returns nil (tested Python 3.9–3.14, incl. brew framework 3.12). INTERNAL scripting works. Therefore everything goes through bridge/resolve_bridge.lua running inside Resolve.

Architecture

bridge/resolve_bridge.lua — in-Resolve RPC server. Requests are Lua table literals (parsed via load()), responses are JSON. Exchanged as files in ~/.davinci-mcp-bridge/. Add new capabilities here as ops.<name> handlers.
davinci_mcp/bridge_client.py — external client; BridgeClient.call(op, **args).
davinci_mcp/server.py — FastMCP server; one @mcp.tool() per operation.

To add a feature: write the Lua handler in ops, then a matching tool in server.py. Use resolve_eval / the eval op to prototype before wrapping.

Resolve scripting notes

Resolve uses Lua 5.1 (load/loadstring). No LuaSocket; io, os, bmd.wait, bmd.UIDispatcher are available.
The Console caches the Scripts menu at launch; restart Resolve to see newly added menu scripts. The Console dofile(...) path does not need a restart.
Resolve's internal Py3 console needs the python.org framework Python; Homebrew Python is not detected. Lua needs nothing extra — prefer Lua for the bridge.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

9d ago First seen · 35 lines · 445 tokens per session scan A a58a723bba19

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davinci-resolve-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository mateo-khalil/davinci-resolve-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 445 tokens to every session, about $0.0022 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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