make-demo-video

Make a demo video with Screenify

Screenify's tools come from the screenify MCP server in this plugin. They record and export on the user's Mac; every output is a local file.

Pick the flow

• Fixed-length capture ("record 10 seconds of my screen"): check_readiness → list_targets → record_clip. Pass the styling and the effects to record_clip itself — it is one job with one output file. Do not follow it with apply_effects; that leaves a second, redundant video.
• Open-ended capture ("start recording, I'll tell you when"): start_recording → stop_recording → export_video.
• A website or web app by URL: record_web_demo. It drives a real browser and adds a smooth cursor and auto-zoom.
• A video or image the user already has: export_video with that file path to style it; apply_effects with the file path to add effects or a photo mockup with a camera move.
• A project that already existed before this conversation: apply_effects. Effects are non-destructive — do not re-export afterwards, it would drop them.

Long jobs return a jobId. Poll get_job_status until it reports completed, and give the user short progress updates from its phase and percent so the work never looks stuck.

Styling rules

• Real-scene photo (a desk, a café, an airplane, a hand holding a phone): set style.realistic to a short name or mood such as home desk or coffee. These photos are built into Screenify — never ask the user for a photo file. Add the photomotion effect when they want the camera to move.
• Background: when the wording implies an image ("orange wallpaper"), use style.wallpaper with a colour category. Use style.background with a hex value only for a plain, solid colour.
• Apply only what the user asked for. Do not add or remove styling on your own, the watermark included.
• get_schemas lists every advanced styling option and effect.

Reporting back

• Say a style or effect was applied only if the tool call that applies it succeeded.
• Link only the output of the last successful step.
• Finish with the output path, one sentence on what else they could ask for (another wallpaper, vertical export for social, a GIF, zoom or spotlight effects), and offer to open the video — or the project in the Screenify Studio editor — with open_result.