Boson Video

Name: Boson Video
Author: linboxin

by linboxinversion 0.3.0i★ –iRuns on your computer

Registry nameio.github.linboxin/boson-video

Install

Overview

Description from the maker (original English)

Let your AI read any video: timed transcript, full-resolution frames, screen text, claim checks.

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What you can do with it

We have not written a plain-language summary for this one yet. Below are the facts we read from the registry.

Connection: Runs on your computer
Transport: stdio
Category: Design, images & audio
You need to fill in: TYPESAFE_API_KEY

Install

Pick the AI app you use, then copy the settings.

Before you install

Basic checks: 1 of 1 passed
Runs on your computer with your user’s permissions (files, network, apps).
You fill in yourself: TYPESAFE_API_KEY

Values marked secret are keys to your account. Never share them or paste them into a chat.

You need

PyPIPython’s uv installed (for the uvx command)

Which app do you use?

ClaudeClaude CodeCursorVS CodeChatGPT

Pick your app above. We remember it, so next time the button says “Install in …”.

Open Claude Desktop → Settings → Developer → Edit Config, and paste this into claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "boson-video": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "boson-video",
        "mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TYPESAFE_API_KEY": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Run this in your terminal

claude mcp add boson-video --env TYPESAFE_API_KEY=your-value -- uvx boson-video mcp

Fill in the empty values before running it.

Open in Cursor

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, or ~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "boson-video": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "boson-video",
        "mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TYPESAFE_API_KEY": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

Open in VS Code

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .vscode/mcp.json in your project

{
  "servers": {
    "boson-video": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "boson-video",
        "mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TYPESAFE_API_KEY": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

This one runs on your computer, and ChatGPT can only connect to servers on the internet. Pick another app.

Your choice stays on this device in a cookie; no account needed.

Values you fill in

TYPESAFE_API_KEY secret env
Optional. Jev checks claims by meaning; without it, code checks the numbers.

These settings are generated from the maker’s registry entry. If the README says otherwise, follow the README.

What it can do

Runs on your computer; the tool list appears in your AI app after you install it.

Basic checksi

We check information anyone can see; we have not read the code. Checks that do not apply are left out of the count. · Checked Nov 8, 2026

✓ Pass
Maker matches the repo
The registry name was verified with the GitHub account linboxin, which owns the repo
… Not checked yet
Still maintained
We have not read this repo from GitHub yet
… Not checked yet
Has a licence
We have not read this repo from GitHub yet
– Not applicable
Endpoint responds
This one runs on your computer; there is no internet endpoint
– Not applicable
Sign-in with OAuth
Runs on your computer and uses local settings instead
… Not checked yet
No hidden instructions in tool descriptions
Runs on your computer; we can only read tool lists from internet endpoints

Compared with others in Design, images & audioi

More stars than 0% of the other 2764 servers in this category
Published to the registry more recently than 50% of the other 2764 servers in this category
Basic checks equal to or better than 100% of the other 2764 servers in this category

Compared with every active server in this category in the registry. Stars count only when the publisher owns the repo.

Common questions

Is Boson Video safe?

It passed 1 of 1 applicable basic checks. We have not read the code. Before adding a key or token, see what access the server asks for and use a key with only the permissions you need.

What keys or codes does it need?

You need to fill in: TYPESAFE_API_KEY

Does it run on my computer or in the cloud?

It runs on your computer. Your AI app starts it when needed, and data does not pass through the maker’s servers (unless it calls an online service itself).

Is it still maintained?

The GitHub repo last changed –, and the latest version (0.3.0) reached the registry 28 days ago.

Which apps can use it?

Apps that support MCP, such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code. You also need Python (uv) on your computer.

What can I use instead?

In the same category: Figma Context MCP, Claude Real Video, Figma MCP Server

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README from the maker

Open the README

Copied from the maker’s repo as written. PopNx MCP has not reviewed or endorsed it. HTML, images and scripts are removed. Links lead off this site.

Boson-Video

Get the point of any video without watching all of it. Paste a YouTube link or drop a video file. Every line of the summary, the transcript and the screen text carries the second it came from, and questions are answered from the video and checked against it.

The ribbon: the whole video on one strip (scenes, chapters, most replayed). Hover to see any second's frame and words.
Summary: sections with their frames; every sentence timed and checked (✓ ? ✗).
Transcript: the original with English beneath, technical terms explained, on-screen text read in.
Ask: answers that cite their moments and show the frames; anything the video doesn't say is marked as background.
Your own AI: the same document as an MCP plugin for Claude, Cursor, Codex and more.

Built for long talks, lectures and finance videos in a language you half know (Chinese and English today).

In your own AI

In Claude Code, one line (uv runs it; nothing else to install):

claude mcp add boson-video -- uvx boson-video mcp

Claude Desktop, Cursor and Codex take the same command, uvx boson-video mcp, in their MCP settings; claude.ai and ChatGPT need a web address instead: setup for each app.

Then paste a YouTube link and ask. Your AI opens the video, reads the transcript, looks at the frames that matter at full resolution, and checks its claims, citing every moment. No keys needed, and everything runs on your computer. In apps that show interactive pages (Claude Desktop, claude.ai, ChatGPT, Cursor), the video's page opens right in the chat, and questions you ask there go to your AI.

Run the page

uvx boson-video web             # http://127.0.0.1:8770; the first run prints your invite code

Two optional models make it fuller. Without their keys you still get the scenes, the transcript and search.

A writer writes the summary, the English and the terms: Mercury from Inception by default (INCEPTION_API_KEY), or any OpenAI-compatible model (BOSON_WRITER_BASE_URL, BOSON_WRITER_MODEL, BOSON_WRITER_API_KEY).
A checker checks every sentence against what was said and finds the moments that answer a question: Jev from TypeSafe (TYPESAFE_API_KEY).

Put the keys in a .env file in the folder you start from, or in ~/.boson-video/.env; the server says at start which one is missing. Off by default: with OPENAI_API_KEY and BOSON_SCREEN_CHECK=1, a sentence the words can't confirm is also checked against the frames on screen (OpenAI's Decisions API, about a cent a video).

Tested videos

Measured, one run each unless a range is shown. Mac: M5 MacBook with Apple's transcriber. Windows: a 12-thread laptop with SenseVoice or Parakeet on the CPU. Full tables: docs/measured.md.

Video	Length	Scene map	Words	Transcript errors¹	Screen text	Summary ✓
Money or Life 美股频道, Meta and AI (zh, talking head)	24:53	1.3 s	13.8 s (Mac)	no human captions	—	13 / 13
Money or Life 美股频道, AI drug discovery (zh, slides)	28:24	1.1 s	18.5 s (Mac)	not scored	36 moments read	15 / 16
程序员老王, LLM abliteration (zh, animated diagrams)	11:35	—	10.0 s (Windows)	not scored	88 moments; burned-in subtitles told apart at 85	21 of 22 to 22 of 23 (several runs)
陳永儀, TEDxTaipei (zh, talk)	14:29	—	7.1 s (Mac)	5.3% chars (Mac), 4.8% (SenseVoice)	—	14 / 14
Ken Robinson, TED (en, talk)	20:06	—	9.9 s (Mac)	10.0% words (Mac), 10.5% (Parakeet)	—	22 / 25
Sean's AI Stories, agent observability (en, screen recording)	20:48	1.5 s	13.2 s (Mac)	not scored	none: YouTube refused full resolution	23 / 26
Andrej Karpathy, Intro to LLMs (en, slides)	59:48	1.6 s	30.5 s (Mac)	only automatic captions	19 of 20 slides right	22 / 23
Rick Astley, Never Gonna Give You Up (fast cuts)	3:33	0.7 s	—	—	—	—

¹ Against human captions (scripts/accuracy.py); about half the English errors are filler words the captions leave out. Summary ✓: summary sentences the checker confirmed against what was said (Jev, with numbers compared in code).

Command line

uvx boson-video <link | id | file>        # build a video: scenes, words, screen text, summary

uvx boson-video ask "question" # the moment that answers it uvx boson-video models # fetch the local speech models now instead of on first use

From a clone: uv sync, then uv run boson-video …; uv run pytest runs the tests (offline).

docs/workflow.md: how the workflow is designed: stages, the document, the ways in
docs/how-it-works.md: the pipeline, what YouTube allows, limits
docs/DIRECTION.md: what we're building, milestones, decisions
docs/timeline-format.md: the document format, for other tools
CONTRIBUTING.md: how to set up, test and propose a change
AGENTS.md: the guide for coding agents

MIT licensed. YouTube's terms don't allow automated access for products, so everything that touches YouTube runs on your own computer.

Boson Video

Overview

PopNx MCP’s three pillars

What you can do with it

Install

Before you install

Values you fill in

What it can do

Basic checksi

Maker matches the repo

Still maintained

Has a licence

Endpoint responds

Sign-in with OAuth

No hidden instructions in tool descriptions

Compared with others in Design, images & audioi

Common questions

Alternatives

Figma Context MCP

Claude Real Video

Figma MCP Server

README from the maker

Boson-Video

In your own AI

Run the page

Tested videos

Command line

More