davinci-resolve-mcp is an MCP server that lets AI assistants control DaVinci Resolve Studio through its scripting API, including editing, media organization, rendering, grading, and other project tasks. It is for users who want agents to operate Resolve and inspect media through a local control panel. The catalogue entries support agent workflows for this Resolve integration.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to samuelgursky/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.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp/main/.agents/skills/resolve-session/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcpWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp/resolve-session)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp/resolve-session"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp/resolve-session/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp/resolve-session"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp/resolve-session.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00034 | $0.00858 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00017 | $0.00429 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00007 | $0.00172 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00086 |
Grade A, and why
resolve-session 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 11d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Start a Resolve Session
Run this at the top of an editing conversation so the session begins with known state instead of four rounds of discovery. Report findings compactly; this is orientation, not an audit.
Steps
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Connect and identify the host.
resolve_control(action="get_version")— or the nearest capability action.Capture: Resolve version, Studio vs free edition, and whether this connected over external scripting or the in-app bridge. If the connection fails, read the error's own
remediationfield and follow it — it names the applicable fix. A connection error does not mean the free edition is unsupported; the bridge path (Workspace > Scripts > resolve_bridge) covers it, and is used automatically once running —DAVINCI_RESOLVE_BRIDGE=1only forces it.Report both versions:
version_stringis the Resolve build,mcp.versionis this server. They fail differently, and one of them is easy to forget — a running MCP keeps executing the version it started with, so agit pulldoes not refresh its ledger until restart. -
Ask what this build cannot do.
get_versionalready answers this in itsbuild.unavailable_on_this_buildblock, so read that first;resolve_control(action="check_version_support")is for asking about one named symbol, or for re-checking after a reconnect.The scripting API changes per patch release, so "Resolve 21" is not a usable label:
GetFairlightPresetsneeds 20.2.2, and three surfaces exist in 21.0.4 but not 21.0.2. Knowing this at the top of the session is the difference between "that needs 21.0.4, here is the alternative" and discovering it halfway through a task.Two things to hold on to:
- An empty list means nothing recorded is missing, not that everything
exists. Most of the API has never been version-bisected, so a symbol with
no gate returns
unknown— which means probe it, not yes. - Probe with
name in dir(obj). Never barehasattr: on a Resolve object it returnsTruefor every name, real or invented, so it can only say yes.
- An empty list means nothing recorded is missing, not that everything
exists. Most of the API has never been version-bisected, so a symbol with
no gate returns
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.
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 86 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 1a5120a3e0c9
resolve-session is a skill published in the GitHub repository samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp (2,622 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 858 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.
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