Koskamo

MandarinClips MCP

An MCP server providing access to an authentic Chinese cinema dialogue corpus for language learners and AI agents. It enables searching 180,000+ video clips by Chinese or Pinyin, retrieving HSK 3.0 vocabulary details, and looking up grammar patterns with multi-turn contextual alignments.

Endpoint and access

API key: create a key with the vendor first; your client sends it as an authorization header on every request.

MandarinClips MCP logo, by MandarinClipsVendor evidenceLegacy SSEAPI keyEndpoint checked 2026-11-01Operated by MandarinClips
MCP endpoint (Legacy SSE)
https://www.mandarinclips.com/mcp
Vendor documentation

What you can do with it

  • Search authentic cinema dialogue clips by Chinese characters or Pinyin
  • Retrieve official HSK 3.0 vocabulary definitions and video examples
  • Look up Chinese grammar structures and spoken variations
  • Query pragmatic subtext and scene taxonomies for language learning

Source and maintenance

Vendor evidenceRegistry 1.1.0
mcp-registry: com.mandarinclips/mcp@1.1.0Source repositoryProject website
Maintenance checked

Tools

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30-day availability

Aggregated from read-only remote checks; this is not a tool-execution or security guarantee.

Successful checks
1 of 1 (100%)
Average latency
110 ms
95th percentile latency
110 ms

Maintenance history

Public check and source-refresh events. Editorial and ownership records remain private.

  • · probe · passed · 110 ms · metadata changed · refuses unauthenticated initialize (HTTP 401)

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Claude Code

Run this once in a terminal. It registers the remote server. Use --scope project to write .mcp.json for the repo.
Claude Code configuration
claude mcp add --transport sse mandarinclips-mcp https://www.mandarinclips.com/mcp

Cline

Merge this into cline_mcp_settings.json (Cline → MCP Servers → Configure).
Cline configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mandarinclips-mcp": {
      "type": "sse",
      "url": "https://www.mandarinclips.com/mcp",
      "disabled": false
    }
  }
}

Gemini CLI

Run this once. It writes .gemini/settings.json in the current project; pass --scope user for ~/.gemini/settings.json.
Gemini CLI configuration
gemini mcp add --transport sse mandarinclips-mcp https://www.mandarinclips.com/mcp

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