Last month we quietly published a local MCP server for Replicate’s HTTP API. Today we’re announcing a hosted remote MCP server that you can use with apps like Claude Desktop, Claude Code , Cursor, and VS Code, giving you the power to explore and run all of Replicate’s HTTP APIs from a familiar chat-based natural language interface. To get started, head over to 👉 mcp.replicate.com 👈 Your browser does not support the video tag. What is MCP? MCP stands for Model Context Protocol. It’s a standard developed at Anthropic for giving language models access to external tools. This is commonly called “tool use” or “function calling”. This makes language models way more powerful, as they can now access external tools and data sources, instead of just their own internal knowledge. Once you’ve installed the server, you can ask questions in Claude or Cursor like: Find models: “Find popular video models on Replicate that allow a starting frame as input” Compare models: “What are the differences between veo 3 and veo 3 fast on Replicate?” Run models: …