Documentation for connecting an AI assistant to DaVinci Resolve Studio, a video-editing and post-production program, through its scripting interface.

Use it to guide work with Resolve projects, timelines, clips, color, Fusion compositions, audio, and render queues through natural-language commands.

It explains the required setup, available controls, common workflows, and recovery steps when the connection or a task fails.

docs — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by hybridlabor-api: Documentation for connecting an AI assistant to DaVinci Resolve…

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods

npx agentmods add skills/hybridlabor-api/bdb-dev-optimized-agent-skills/docs

Any agent

npx skills add hybridlabor-api/bdb-dev-optimized-agent-skills --skill docs

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hybridlabor-api/bdb-dev-optimized-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md

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Origin 81% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

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Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.00000	$0.21364
Opus 5	$0.00000	$0.10682
Sonnet 5	$0.00000	$0.04273
Haiku 4.5	$0.00000	$0.02136

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Security

Grade A, and why

docs 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 4d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

81% identical to docs — 708 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

mcps/davinci-resolve-mcp/docs/SKILL.md · 1,636 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,636 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DaVinci Resolve MCP Server — AI Skill Reference

This document gives AI assistants the context needed to use the DaVinci Resolve MCP server effectively. It covers the tool landscape, page prerequisites, common workflow patterns, error recovery, and known gotchas.

What This Server Does

The DaVinci Resolve MCP server bridges AI assistants to DaVinci Resolve Studio via its official Scripting API. You can control every aspect of a post-production session — projects, timelines, clips, color grading, Fusion compositions, audio, render queues, and more — through natural language.

DaVinci Resolve must be running with Preferences > General > "External scripting using" set to Local. The server auto-launches Resolve if it is not running, but that first connection can take up to 60 seconds.

Workflow Integration plugins/scripts are a separate Resolve-hosted UI mechanism. They are not required for this MCP server, but docs/integrations/workflow-integrations.md summarizes when they are useful for optional in-Resolve panels, UIManager scripts, and render callback companions.

OpenFX plugins are native C++ image-effect plugins, not an MCP control surface. Use docs/notes/openfx-notes.md when diagnosing insert_ofx_generator failures or discussing optional OFX plugin development.

LUT files are directly relevant to Color-page graph actions. Use docs/notes/lut-notes.md when diagnosing graph.set_lut failures, validating .cube files, or explaining project_settings.refresh_luts.

Fusion templates are relevant to Edit/Cut page insertion actions. Use docs/notes/fusion-template-notes.md when diagnosing insert_fusion_generator or insert_fusion_title failures, template paths, .setting files, or .drfx bundles.

DCTL files are programmable color transforms/effects adjacent to LUT and OpenFX workflows. Use docs/notes/dctl-notes.md when diagnosing .dctl/.dctle discovery, ResolveFX DCTL plugin behavior, ACES DCTL IDT/ODT setup, or DCTL-as-LUT usage.

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Files

What ships with it

60 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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.

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