What is tmdb-mcp-server?

A connection to TMDB, a public database of movies, TV shows, and the people who make them. It lets a coding agent search titles and retrieve their details.

Finding movies, series, or people; resolving similarly named titles by year or region; checking details such as runtime, budget, seasons, and cast; and viewing trending lists.

It avoids guessing which film or show someone means and removes the need to look up cast, release, or trend information manually.

tmdb-mcp-server — Skill for Codex by lonzzi

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.

Any agent

npx skills add lonzzi/tmdb-mcp-server --skill tmdb-mcp-server

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lonzzi/tmdb-mcp-server

Made for: Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 518 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

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	$0.00078	$0.00518
Opus 5	$0.00039	$0.00259
Sonnet 5	$0.00016	$0.00104
Haiku 4.5	$0.00008	$0.00052

Measured 9d ago against content hash 72f7813d4235, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tmdb-mcp-server 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.

skills/tmdb-mcp-server/SKILL.md · 49 lines

What it actually says

TMDB MCP Server

Overview

Use TMDB MCP tools to search movies, TV shows, and people, then fetch detailed metadata and trending lists with optional language and region localization.

Quick Start

Clarify the target: movie, TV show, or person. If unclear, search both movies and TV shows.
Run the relevant search tool with query and optional language/region.
Present top matches with id, title/name, year, and a short overview.
Ask the user to confirm the exact match, then fetch details by ID.
Provide a concise summary plus the TMDB link returned by the tool.

Task Guide

Search Movies

Use search_movies with query and optional language/region. When results are ambiguous, show 3 to 5 candidates with year and ID and ask which one to open.

Search TV Shows

Use search_tv_shows with query and optional language. If the user provides a year or country hint, use it to rank or filter results in your response.

Get Movie or TV Details

Use get_movie_details or get_tv_show_details after the user confirms the exact title. Summarize key fields:

Movies: release date, runtime, genres, budget, revenue, overview.
TV: first air date, seasons count, episodes count, genres, overview.

Search People

Use search_person for actors, directors, or crew. If the user wants filmography or specific credits, offer to look up the titles they name and fetch details by ID.

Output Conventions

Always include the TMDB ID when presenting multiple matches.
Prefer localized titles/overviews when language is provided.
Do not guess details; rely on tool output.

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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.

agents/openai.yaml 194 B

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 · 49 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 72f7813d4235

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tmdb-mcp-server is a skill published in the GitHub repository lonzzi/tmdb-mcp-server (1 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 518 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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