ShotGrid MCP Server

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A high-performance ShotGrid Model Context Protocol (MCP) server implementation based on fastmcp

✨ Features

• 🚀 High-performance implementation based on fastmcp
• 🛠 Complete CRUD operation toolset
• 🖼 Dedicated thumbnail download/upload tools
• 🔄 Efficient connection pool management
• ✅ Comprehensive test coverage with pytest
• 📦 Dependency management with UV
• 🌐 Cross-platform support (Windows, macOS, Linux)

🚀 Quick Start

Installation

Install using UV:

uv pip install shotgrid-mcp-server

Development Setup

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/loonghao/shotgrid-mcp-server.git
cd shotgrid-mcp-server

2. Install development dependencies:

pip install -r requirements-dev.txt

3. Development Commands All development commands are managed through nox. Check noxfile.py for available commands:

# Run tests
nox -s tests

# Run linting
nox -s lint

# Run type checking
nox -s type_check

# And more...

Quick Demo

Here's a simple example of querying entities using the ShotGrid MCP server:

Development

Environment Setup

1. Set up environment variables:

$env:SHOTGRID_URL='your_shotgrid_url'
$env:SHOTGRID_SCRIPT_NAME='your_script_name'
$env:SHOTGRID_SCRIPT_KEY='your_script_key'

2. Run the development server:

uv run fastmcp dev src\shotgrid_mcp_server\server.py:app

            The server will start in development mode with hot reloading enabled.

⚙️ Configuration

Environment Variables

Create a .env file with the following variables:

SHOTGRID_URL=your_shotgrid_url
SHOTGRID_SCRIPT_NAME=your_script_name
SHOTGRID_SCRIPT_KEY=your_script_key

🔧 Available Tools

• create: Create ShotGrid entities
• read: Read entity information
• update: Update entity data
• delete: Delete entities
• download_thumbnail: Download entity thumbnails
• upload_thumbnail: Upload entity thumbnails

📚 API Documentation

For detailed API documentation, please refer to the documentation files in the /docs directory.

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please ensure:

1. Follow Google Python Style Guide
2. Write tests using pytest
3. Update documentation
4. Use absolute imports
5. Follow the project's coding standards

📝 Version History

See CHANGELOG.md for detailed version history.

📄 License

MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

🔌 MCP Client Configuration

To use the ShotGrid MCP server in your MCP client, add the following configuration to your client's settings:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shotgrid-server": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "shotgrid-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SHOTGRID_SCRIPT_NAME": "XXX",
        "SHOTGRID_SCRIPT_KEY": "XX",
        "SHOTGRID_URL": "XXXX"
      },
      "disabled": false,
      "alwaysAllow": [
        "search_entities",
        "create_entity",
        "batch_create",
        "find_entity",
        "get_entity_types",
        "update_entity",
        "download_thumbnail",
        "batch_update",
        "delete_entity",
        "batch_delete"
      ]
    }
  }
}

🔑 Credentials Setup

Replace the following values with your ShotGrid credentials:

• SHOTGRID_SCRIPT_NAME: Your ShotGrid script name

• SHOTGRID_SCRIPT_KEY: Your ShotGrid script key

            - `SHOTGRID_URL`: Your ShotGrid server URL
  

🛡️ Tool Permissions

The alwaysAllow section lists the tools that can be executed without requiring user confirmation. These tools are carefully selected for safe operations.