tro2789/scout-premiere-mcp

Scout is a commercial extension for Adobe Premiere Pro (Windows, Premiere 26.2 or newer). It cuts multi-camera podcasts from the audio and connects AI agents to your timeline over the Model Context Protocol.
This repository hosts the MCP bridge as a downloadable bundle and is the public issue tracker for Scout. The extension's source code is not public.
- Get Scout ($59, one time): https://trevorohare.gumroad.com/l/scout4premiere
- Product page and demo video: https://www.trevorohare.com/dev
- Bug reports and feature requests: open an issue here, using one of the templates
- Community and support: https://discord.gg/qYkacEyfUQ
What the server exposes
The bridge talks to the Scout panel running inside Premiere. It exposes two tool families on one MCP surface:
**Panel tools (11).** These read Premiere's own transcript and act on the active sequence.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| get_active_sequence | Name, frame rate, duration, start timecode, per-track summary |
| get_transcript | Full stitched transcript with sequence-time segments, optional time window |
| find_words | Word-accurate search: exact sequence times and timecodes for each match |
| list_markers | Markers with name, comment, start, duration, type, color; optional prefix filter |
| place_markers | Add point or duration markers, with color |
| remove_markers | Remove markers by prefix or by exact start time |
| apply_cleanup | Lift or Extract every Scout/Cleanup: range, after backing up the sequence |
| create_chapter_markers | Convert duration markers into chapter-type point markers |
| export_markers_csv | Write a CSV of markers matching a prefix |
| razor_at | Cut tracks at exact sequence times; reversible with undo |
| enable_all_clips | Re-enable every clip on every track in one undo step |
**ExtendScript tools (266).** Effects, transitions, exports, project and bin management, track targeting, metadata, and more. Adapted from the MIT-licensed adobe-premiere-pro-mcp tool layer; see THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES.md. The full reference is in TOOLS.md.
Install
Scout's Windows installer registers the bridge with Claude Code automatically when the claude CLI is present. For other clients:
**Claude Desktop.** Download scout-premiere-mcp- .mcpb from Releases and open it. Claude Desktop installs it as an extension.
**Claude Code, Cursor, and other stdio clients.** Point the client at the installed executable:
Then open the Scout panel in Premiere and turn on **Enable MCP Server**. The panel shows a live connection indicator and a log of every tool call.
Running the bundle directly
server/index.cjs is the same single-file build that ships inside the .mcpb (sha256 52fbc2dbe35ebbee1135db726d3c2fb78819027c574e84078cebab8603362a41). Any MCP client can launch it with Node 18 or newer:
The Dockerfile builds an image that runs it over stdio. Without Premiere and the Scout panel on the same machine the server still starts and lists its tools; calls that need the panel return a "panel not connected" error.