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Artlist MCP: Connect Claude, ChatGPT, and VS Code to Artlist

Last updated: August 27, 2026

Overview

The Artlist MCP lets you generate AI images, videos, voiceovers, and music with your Artlist account directly from your AI assistant — no need to open the Artlist Toolkit in your browser. This article explains what MCP is, how to connect it to Claude, ChatGPT, or VS Code, and what you can do with it once it's set up.

Note: The Artlist MCP is currently available with Claude, ChatGPT, and VS Code. Support for other AI platforms may be added in the future.

What is the Artlist MCP?

MCP stands for Model Context Protocol — an open standard that lets AI assistants (like Claude, ChatGPT, and VS Code's Copilot Chat) connect to external tools and data sources. Think of it as a bridge: when you ask your assistant to "generate an image of a sunset over the ocean," the Artlist MCP routes that request through Artlist's AI generation pipeline and returns the result straight into your conversation.

In short: you chat with your AI assistant as usual, and it can now create Artlist AI images, videos, voiceovers, and music on your behalf, using your own Artlist account, plan, and credits.

What it can do

The Artlist MCP is currently in beta. Here's what's supported today:

  • Text-to-image — generate an image from a text prompt
  • Text-to-video — generate a video from a text prompt
  • Image-to-image — use an uploaded image or a previous generation as a reference to create a new image
  • Image-to-video — animate an uploaded image or previous generation into a video
  • Text-to-speech — generate a voiceover from a text prompt
  • Speech-to-speech — convert an uploaded voice recording into a different voice
  • Voice cloning — create a custom voice from a sample recording, ready to reuse in future generations
  • Listing voices — ask your assistant to browse the Artlist voice library, including your own cloned voices
  • Browsing your models — ask your assistant which AI models are available and what settings they support
  • Style Kit — apply a saved brand kit (reference images, a color palette, and free-text guidelines) to any image or video generation in one step
  • Checking generation status — track a generation from "in progress" to "completed," with a downloadable result
  • AI Music generation — generate a music track from a text prompt, right alongside your images, videos, and voiceovers

💡 Tip: All generations use the same credit pool and plan permissions as the Artlist Toolkit website — there's nothing extra to set up on the billing side.

⚠️ Note: Catalog search and video-to-video are not available through MCP yet. Unlimited generation is also not supported through MCP — only credit-based generations. Once started, a generation also can't be canceled — credits are deducted when the request is made, the same as on the website. Style Kit is supported for image and video generations; availability for a specific model follows the same rules as in the Artlist Toolkit.

How to connect

Connecting takes two steps: point your assistant at the Artlist MCP server, then sign in with your Artlist account. Pick your platform below.

Claude Desktop

  1. Open Claude Desktop and go to Settings > Connectors (or Settings > Extensions, depending on your version).
  2. Choose to add a custom connector and enter the Artlist MCP server URL: https://mcp.artlist.io/mcp
  3. Claude will open a sign-in window — log in with your Artlist account credentials and approve the connection.
  4. Once connected, you'll see Artlist listed as an active connector. You can now ask Claude to generate images, videos, or voiceovers in any conversation.

💡 Tip: If you connected using a link (rather than adding the connector manually in Settings), relaunch Claude Desktop afterward so it can sync the new connection.

ChatGPT

There are two ways to connect, depending on what you see in your ChatGPT settings:

Quick way

  1. Click this link to open the connector setup directly.
  2. Paste the Artlist MCP server URL — https://mcp.artlist.io/mcp — in the connection field and click Create.
  3. Sign in with your Artlist account credentials — you're all set.

Manual way

  1. Go to Settings > Plugins and turn on Developer Mode if it isn't already on.
  2. Go back to Plugins, click Browse Plugins, then click the "+" next to the search bar.
  3. Paste the Artlist MCP server URL — https://mcp.artlist.io/mcp — in the connection field and click Create.
  4. Sign in with your Artlist account credentials.

Once connected, you'll see Artlist listed as an active connector. You can now ask ChatGPT to generate images, videos, voiceovers, or music in any conversation.

Note: On ChatGPT Team or Enterprise workspaces, an admin may need to enable custom connectors for the workspace before individual members can add the Artlist MCP.

VS Code

  1. Copy the Artlist MCP server URL: https://mcp.artlist.io/mcp
  2. Open the Command Palette (Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + P) and run MCP: Add Server. Choose HTTP as the server type, name it "Artlist," and paste in the URL.
  3. When prompted, confirm that you trust the server.
  4. Sign in with your Artlist account credentials to start generating.

💡 Tip: You can also add the server manually by adding an entry to your user or workspace mcp.json settings, pointing to the same server URL.

How to use it

Once connected, you don't need to remember any commands — just describe what you want in natural language. Behind the scenes, your assistant is calling Artlist's tools for you.

  1. Ask what's available. Try "What Artlist image models can I use?" — your assistant will list the current models and their settings.
  2. Generate. Ask something like "Generate a video of a car driving through a neon city at night" — your assistant sends the request and returns a generation ID.
  3. Check progress. For videos and voiceovers in particular, generation takes a little time. Your assistant will let you know when it's done and share a preview or download link. Images under 500 KB show up inline in the chat; larger files, all videos, and all voiceovers come back as a download link.
  4. Use a reference image. To do image-to-image or image-to-video, share or upload the image in your conversation and ask your assistant to use it as the starting point.
  5. Use a Style Kit. If you've created a Style Kit in the Artlist Toolkit, ask your assistant to apply it to a generation — for example, "Generate an image of a mountain at golden hour using my Acme Brand kit." Your assistant will apply the kit's saved reference images, palette, and guidelines automatically.
  6. Generate a voiceover. Ask something like "Turn this into a voiceover using the Horizon voice" — your assistant will list available voices, confirm which one to use, and return the audio as a download link. To clone a voice, upload a sample recording and ask your assistant to create a custom voice from it.
  7. Generate music. Ask something like "Create an upbeat electronic track for a product launch video" — your assistant sends the request and returns the track as a download link once it's ready.

💡 Tip: Be as descriptive as you'd be on the Artlist Toolkit website — your prompt is sent through as-is, with no rewriting in between.

Good to know

  • The Artlist MCP is in beta — features and supported platforms may change.
  • You'll need an active Artlist plan with AI credits; generations draw from the same pool as the Toolkit website.
  • A generation can't be stopped once it starts — credits are deducted at the time of request.
  • Voiceover results (text-to-speech, speech-to-speech, and cloned voices) are always returned as a download link — audio doesn't play inline in the chat.
  • If you run out of credits or your plan doesn't support a model, your assistant will let you know and point you to the Artlist plans page.

Troubleshooting

If you're running into issues connecting to or using the Artlist MCP, try these steps:

  • Connector won't connect / sign-in window doesn't appear. Double-check the server URL is entered exactly as https://mcp.artlist.io/mcp, then try removing and re-adding the connector.
  • Sign-in fails or loops back to the login screen. Make sure you're signing in with the same Artlist account you use on the Toolkit website. If you use SSO, confirm your SSO session hasn't expired.
  • Your assistant says the Artlist connector isn't available or the connection times out. If your computer, network, or account (Claude, ChatGPT, or VS Code) is managed by your company's IT department, check with them — some organizations restrict which connectors or external domains can be used. Ask them to allow mcp.artlist.io.
  • Generation fails or gets stuck "in progress." Confirm you have enough AI credits on your Artlist plan and that the model you asked for supports the type of generation (e.g. some models don't support image-to-video). If it's still stuck after a few minutes, try the request again.
  • No models show up when asked. Reconnect the Artlist connector, and confirm your Artlist plan includes AI Toolkit access.
  • No voices show up, or voice cloning fails. Reconnect the Artlist connector, confirm your Artlist plan includes AI voiceover credits, and make sure any sample recording you upload for cloning is a clear, single-speaker clip.
  • Style Kit isn't applying. Make sure you've created at least one kit in the Artlist Toolkit first. Ask your assistant to list your kits to confirm they're visible, then try the request again.
  • Getting a rate-limit error. The Artlist MCP allows up to 120 requests per minute per account across all tools (image, video, and voiceover). If you hit this limit, wait a minute and try again.
  • Generated result doesn't appear in the chat. Large images, all videos, and all voiceovers return as a download link rather than an inline preview — check for a link in your assistant's reply.

If none of the above resolves the issue, you can contact us. 

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