plex-mcp

plex-mcp is a skill for Claude Code from sandraschi/plexmcp. It costs 64 tokens per session (987 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of tools for managing a Plex Media Server, which stores and streams movies, shows, music, and other media. It can inspect libraries, search media, control playback, manage users and playlists, and perform server administration.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find or update media, control active streams, manage libraries and playlists, inspect server health, and administer users and metadata.
Why use it?
It avoids having to perform routine Plex tasks manually through the Plex interface or guess server identifiers. It also gives an agent a structured way to work with your media server.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the plex-mcp plugin — 4 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to find or update media, control active streams, manage libraries and playlists, inspect server health, and administer users and metadata.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sandraschi/plexmcp/plex-mcp
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 sandraschi/plexmcp --skill plex-mcp
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sandraschi/plexmcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install plex-mcp, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 987 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00064 $0.00987
Opus 5.5 $0.00026 $0.00395
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00197
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00099

Measured 5d ago against content hash cbad990874f1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plex-mcp 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 5d 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/plex-mcp/SKILL.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PlexMCP skill

Talk to a Plex Media Server through portmanteau tools — one tool per domain, each with an operation parameter. Never invent identifiers, URLs, or tokens; discover them first.

Session startup

  1. plex_server(operation="status") — reachable? version? load?
  2. plex_library(operation="list") — sections, types, sizes.
  3. plex_rag(operation="status") — only when the task needs semantic search.

Tool surface (24 tools)

Tool Key operations
plex_library list, get, list_items, create, scan, refresh, optimize, empty_trash (!), add/remove_location, delete (!)
plex_media browse, search, get_details, get_recent, get_stream_url, update_metadata
plex_search search, advanced_search, suggest, recent_searches, save_search
plex_streaming list_sessions, list_clients, play, pause, stop, seek, control
plex_server status, info, health, maintenance, restart (!), update (!)
plex_user list, get, create, update, delete (!), update_permissions
plex_playlist list, get, create, update, delete (!), add/remove_items, get_analytics
plex_collections list, get, create, update, delete (!), add/remove_items
plex_metadata analyze, match, fix_match, refresh, refresh_all, update, organize
plex_organization analyze, organize, fix_issues, clean_bundles, optimize_database
plex_performance transcode getters before setters; set_quality, throttling, profiles
plex_quality list/get/create/update/delete profiles, set_default
plex_reporting library_stats, content_report, user_activity, usage/performance reports, export_report (json/csv/html)
plex_rag status, sync_metadata, sync_subtitles, semantic_search, search_subtitles
plex_taste status, rebuild_from_history, sync, profile, score_item, score_library
plex_media_enrichment enrich, bulk_enrich, get_enrichment, get_related, search_by_theme/person, stale_report
plex_integration list_integrations, vienna_recommendations, european_content, anime_season_info, configure, sync
plex_audio_mgr list/select streams, volume, mute, handover
plex_ffmpeg_mgr probe first, then sync/extract operations, revert
arr_stack status (read-only Radarr/Sonarr/Lidarr snapshot)
plex_help help, list_tools, tool_info, examples, api_docs
plex_shutdown status, shutdown (!)
agentic_plex_workflow orchestrate (needs sampling or PLEX_SAMPLING_BASE_URL)
plex_natural_assistant answer (no tools)

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 lines

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.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 74 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A cbad990874f1

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plex-mcp is a skill published in the GitHub repository sandraschi/plexmcp (2 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 987 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-16.