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Refs
Shot-by-shot reference video search and blueprints
2989 ms
answered our call
- State
- Answered
- Protocol
- MCP 2025-06-18
- Tools listed
- 14
- Answered
- 3 of the last 3 calls
How to reach it
- MCP, HTTP
https://refs.video/mcp
What it can do
| Tool | What it says it does |
|---|---|
check_render | After rendering a video from a reference, check it against that film's measured timeline and get concrete fixes: cut timing to the frame, pace, brightness curve, motion per shot, loudness for the platform, and format. First measure your render: run `node scripts/measure.mjs <file>` from the Refs… |
get_blueprint | The full reverse-engineered blueprint of one video: hook frame by frame, beat sheet with timestamps, shot list, style guide, voice and sound, script template, production plan, edit recipe, QA checklist, plus a runnable recipe prompt. Markdown by default; format "json" returns the plates, toolkit… |
get_brand | One of your brand imports: the brand kit (the brand's house style across all its films: palette, type, logo and end card, motion and easing, pacing and cut rhythm, camera, transitions, sound and voice, recurring formats, written as rules to follow) plus each film's blueprint summary with its id… |
get_collection | Every film in a Refs collection as search cards (REF id, link, length, aspect, measured metrics, why it works). Takes a collection id or refs.video/c/… link: anyone's shared collection, or your own private one; "favourites" gives the films you hearted. Then use them as references… |
get_formula | The full cross-video formula for one format, as markdown: structure, timing ranges, what top performers share, mistakes to avoid, and a template prompt. Needs a Refs account with Pro; without one, the app asks the user to sign in. search_videos is free. |
get_frames | One video's labelled frame sheets as images, so you can see the reference instead of guessing from text: the hook (first 3 s at 0.25 s steps), one frame per shot, and the whole film at fixed steps where measured. sheet "transitions" adds every frame around each cut and in-shot change, for timing… |
get_ugc_scan | One of your competitor UGC scans (from ugc_scan): its status and progress while the worker runs (queued → finding competitors → fetching ads → measuring → writing → summary → done), then the board: each competitor's winning UGC ads ranked by signal (days running, variants, reach, CTR percentile… |
list_brands | Your brand imports on refs.video (refs.video/saved → Brandprint): each X account you imported, with its progress and film count. Private to you. Pass an id or handle to get_brand for the brand kit and every film. Needs a Refs account with Pro; without one, the app asks the user to sign in… |
list_collections | Your collections on refs.video (named sets of films you saved) and your favourites, with ids and film counts. Pass an id to get_collection to read the films and use them as references. Needs a Refs account with Pro; without one, the app asks the user to sign in. search_videos is free. |
list_formulas | Formulas distilled across many videos of one format (e.g. 'the silent UI workflow', 'the delayed hardware reveal'). Returns ids, titles, summaries and their source films; fetch one with get_formula. Needs a Refs account with Pro; without one, the app asks the user to sign in. search_videos is… |
plan_video | Give a brief (product, audience, length, platform) and 1-5 references (REF ids, links or ids, or your brand films' brand:<import>:<film> ids), and optionally one of your imported brands (brand) to plan in its house style. Returns, per reference, the plates that carry its timing and look (format… |
search_videos | Search 4,000+ dissected top-performing videos (launch films, product demos, explainers, motion design, interactive/3D, film + music, teasers, UGC ads). Needs a Refs account; a free one is enough (the app asks the user to sign in). Cards carry the REF id, title, maker, length, aspect, still, views… |
storyboard | Before anything is built, storyboard the film the way an editor does. Send the storyboard you drafted from plan_video: 1 direction for a fixed brief, 2–4 when it's open. Each direction: logline, references (REF id + the one job each does), palette, type, sound, 2–3 style frames at full look, and… |
ugc_scan | Paste a product page and Refs finds the UGC ads (creator-style vertical video ads on Meta and TikTok) that are working for its competitors, then takes them apart. Two steps. (1) ugc_scan(url) reads the page and returns a draft: the product (name, category, price, audience) and 5–8 suggested… |
In its maker's words
4,100 launch videos measured shot by shot. Free account to search; Pro for blueprints and plans.
- Website
- refs.video/connect
- Publisher
- refs.video
- Listed from
- the official MCP Registry as
video.refs/refs - Version
- 0.17.0, updated 7 Nov 2026
- Kinds of work
- Images, video and audio, Search and research, Documents and files
The domain it lives on
- refs.video
- registered 7 Oct 2026 (1 month ago), at NAMECHEAP INC, its home page is a working site
From our own crawl of domain names: registry records and the home page as our crawler last saw it.
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