VS Code
How to let VS Code Copilot watch a video
VS Code supports MCP servers natively. The install button opens the editor and adds Playhead to your MCP configuration; the first call asks you to sign in.
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What this changes
VS Code's agent mode reads your workspace, which means the video and the code that produced it are in the same conversation. A failing end-to-end test that records a trace video is the clearest case: the agent watches the recording, finds the frame where the assertion would have failed, and reads the selector off the screen.
Setting it up
- 01
Click the install button
It opens VS Code and adds the server to your MCP configuration.
- 02
Approve the connection
The first tool call opens a browser once to sign in with your Playhead account.
- 03
Ask in agent mode
Reference a file in the workspace or paste a URL.
Things worth asking it
Every one of these comes back with the second attached, so you can open the video at that moment and check it yourself.
- Watch test-results/checkout.webm and tell me what is on screen when the test fails.
- Read every visible string in this recording between 0:04 and 0:09.
Ask once wide, then as narrow as you like
The first question is the one that watches the video, and it costs the most. Every question after it reads what that look already found, so it comes back quickly and costs a fraction. Ask six things about one advert and you pay for one reading and five follow-ups.
VS Code does this for you. It keeps the handle from the first answer and sends it back with the next question, so you can simply keep asking.
Questions
- Which VS Code versions support MCP?
- MCP support ships with agent mode in current VS Code releases. If the button does nothing, the editor is either not installed or is older than that. The server URL can be pasted into the MCP configuration by hand.
Or somewhere else
One account, every client. The connection is attached to you rather than to a machine, so adding a second one costs nothing.
- Claude
Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http playhead https://mcp.tryplayhead.com/mcpNo deeplink exists for the terminal, so this is the install.
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Codex
codex mcp add playhead --url https://mcp.tryplayhead.com/mcp codex mcp login playheadBoth write to ~/.codex/config.toml, which the CLI, the IDE extension and the desktop app share.