The video studio your agents can run.

This explainer came from one brief. Paste a prompt into your agent, and it can make one like it in your brand, with voice, captions and music.

Copy a prompt for your agent

Keep your agent key in the SECOND_STUDIO_API_KEY environment variable. The prompt never needs the key itself.

Set up Second Studio so you can make videos for me.

About Second Studio: a hosted video API and MCP server. Read https://secondstudio.dev/llms.txt for the full guide.

1. Auth. Ask me for the API key, or read it from the SECOND_STUDIO_API_KEY environment variable if I already set it. Never print the key, never paste it into chat, a file in a repo, or a log. If I give you the key, save it only as SECOND_STUDIO_API_KEY in the environment (do not echo it back). If neither is available, tell me to run this in my own terminal (I will paste my real key) and restart you:
   export SECOND_STUDIO_API_KEY="ss_live_..."

2. Connect the MCP server at https://second.studio.hellofaro.io/mcp (Streamable HTTP, header Authorization: Bearer $SECOND_STUDIO_API_KEY). Use the setup for your client:
   Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http second-studio https://second.studio.hellofaro.io/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer $SECOND_STUDIO_API_KEY"
   Cursor: add to .cursor/mcp.json:
     { "mcpServers": { "second-studio": { "type": "http", "url": "https://second.studio.hellofaro.io/mcp", "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer ${env:SECOND_STUDIO_API_KEY}" } } } }
   Claude Desktop: tell me to add this to claude_desktop_config.json myself, with my key in place of MY_KEY (the file stays on my computer), then restart the app:
     { "mcpServers": { "second-studio": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://second.studio.hellofaro.io/mcp", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer ${SECOND_STUDIO_API_KEY}"], "env": { "SECOND_STUDIO_API_KEY": "MY_KEY" } } } }
   ChatGPT or another app with connectors: add a custom MCP connector with the URL above and the same Authorization header.
   No MCP support: call the REST API at https://second.studio.hellofaro.io/v1 with the same header. GET /v1/me checks the key.

3. Confirm it works by listing the Second Studio tools (or calling GET /v1/me) and tell me my credit balance.

4. Read the product docs and summarize what Second Studio can do for me: https://secondstudio.dev/docs/quickstart , https://secondstudio.dev/docs/ , https://secondstudio.dev/features/ , https://secondstudio.dev/use-cases/ , and https://secondstudio.dev/llms.txt .

Then make me a 30 second vertical explainer about [what you make], in my brand, with voiceover and captions. Show me the script before you render.

Also served at /setup.txt. Keep your key in SECOND_STUDIO_API_KEY, not in chat.

How a video gets made

Three steps, and a person stays in charge of what gets posted.

  1. Show it the look

    Point at a video whose editing works, or pick a saved brand kit. The style is measured and saved for reuse.

  2. Hand over the material

    Raw clips, a brief or steps to record in your live app. Each shot slot gets the right moment.

  3. Approve and post

    Renders are checked before they come back. Drafts reach your social accounts only after a person approves them.

One line to connect

Works with Claude, Cursor and any MCP client. A REST API covers everything else, and failed jobs are refunded automatically.

Developer quickstart

claude mcp add --transport http second-studio \
  https://second.studio.hellofaro.io/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer ss_live_..."

# then ask your agent
"Make a 30 second explainer for our new export
 feature with our brand kit, and draft it to
 TikTok for Friday at 6pm."

Credits, or a plan that saves

$10 buys 100 credits. Or save with Studio at $100/mo for 1,150 credits, or Studio Max at $200/mo for 2,375 credits. Annual is 5% off: $1,140 or $2,280. Credits do not expire, and failed jobs are refunded.

Full pricing

Who uses it

Made with Second Studio

Every one of these came from a brief

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