AgentsCodex MCP

Generate images, PDFs and videos in Codex.

Wire Orshot into the OpenAI Codex CLI so your agent can generate visuals from templates in the terminal.

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30 free credits · no credit card · hosted MCP, no local install

What Orshot for Agents can do for you:

  • Generate on-brand templates
  • Render carousels, videos from your data
  • Manage your brand assets
  • Plug API, Automation Workflows
  • Post, draft, schedule social content
  • Analyze your social metrics
  • Tell your best time to post
  • See what gets engagement, what doesn't
  • Get every number you need to grow
Codex CLI
codex mcp add orshot --url https://mcp.orshot.com/mcp

Adds Orshot to ~/.codex/config.json. Authenticate over OAuth or pass an Orshot API key as a bearer token.

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Then just ask

Ask in plain language. Codex does the rest.

Once connected, Codex can call the Orshot tools directly. You describe the visual you want, it renders it from your template and hands back the links.

  • Render OG images, ad creatives and carousels from a template
  • Resize one design to every social format in a single call
  • Generate certificates, invoices and reports as PDFs
  • Publish the render straight to social, in the same step
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You
Use Orshot to render an OG image for this blog post and save the URL to the frontmatter.
Codex calls the Orshot MCP tools and returns the rendered links.
Create

On-brand carousels, documents and reels, from a prompt.

Describe the piece and Codex builds it from your templates: a LinkedIn carousel, a one-page document, a reel cover, already in your fonts and colors.

“List my studio templates and tell me which ones have a video layer.”

“Add a discount-badge parameter to my sale-banner template.”

Agent session
Completed
You

“Build a 6-slide Instagram carousel for our Black Friday sale: product-first, brand palette, CTA on slide 6.”

Agent
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Template #4821 · 6-slide carousel
Brand fonts + colors pulled from Acme's kitDynamic product / CTA fields on every slide.
Render

Render images, video and PDFs from your data source.

Point Codex at a Google Sheet, an Airtable or a list of rows and it renders one asset per record from a template you designed once: product shots, certificates, thumbnails, the lot.

“Make an Instagram carousel from the promo template with these three headlines.”

“Turn my product template into a short MP4 with the hero video swapped in.”

Agent session
Completed
You

“Render a product banner for every SKU in rows A1–A500: image, name, sale price, 'Limited' badge.”

Agent
orshot_generate_image × 500
500 product banners in 1m 52s
Signed URLs · avg 220 ms per bannerStraight into your CDN for product pages.
Publish

Post to 15+ social platforms, via Codex and API.

Codex posts to the accounts you have connected, holds a draft for you to read first, or schedules a whole week for the times and timezone you name. Every one of those actions is an API call too.

“Render the announcement and save it as a draft to all my connected accounts.”

“Render the certificate and email me a signed URL to download it.”

Agent session
Completed
You

“Render this week's product drop from the Announcement template and publish it to our Instagram and LinkedIn.”

Agent
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Posted to Instagram + LinkedIn
Rendered from the Announcement templateLive now · caption and first comment set.
Automate

Automate the loop, or drop the API into your codebase.

Have Codex wire up an Orshot Workflow that keeps running after the chat: a trigger, a data source, your template and a destination. Or skip Codex and call the REST API straight from your own app.

“Run my weekly-report workflow and show me the last run's outputs.”

“Schedule a workflow to generate a daily quote graphic from a Google Sheet.”

Agent session
Completed
You

“Set up a workflow: every Monday 9am, render the Weekly Deals template from the newest Google Sheet row and post it to our Slack.”

Agent
orshot_list_workflow_nodesorshot_create_workfloworshot_run_workflow
Workflow is live, runs every Monday
Sheet row → render → Slack, no clicks involvedTest run passed · next run scheduled automatically.
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FAQ

Using Orshot with Codex

Where does the Codex CLI store the Orshot config?

Running `codex mcp add orshot --url …` writes it to ~/.codex/config.json. You can also edit that file directly.

Can I use Orshot with Codex headlessly?

Yes. Authenticate over OAuth interactively, or pass an Orshot workspace API key as a bearer token for CI and scripts.

Does the Orshot MCP work in both the Codex CLI and IDE extension?

Yes. Both connect to the same hosted server. The CLI stores the config in ~/.codex/config.json.

Can Codex render more than images?

Yes. Ask for PDFs and MP4 or GIF video from the same templates, not just PNGs.

What can Codex do with Orshot once connected?

You can ask Codex in plain language to render images, PDFs and video from your Orshot templates, resize one design to every social format, and publish the result to social. No image infrastructure to build.

Is the Orshot MCP server free to use?

Connecting is free. Renders draw from your Orshot plan, and every account starts with 30 free credits and no credit card.

Give Codex your templates. 30 free credits to try.

No credit card. Connect the hosted MCP server, then let Codex render images, PDFs and video from your Orshot templates.

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