Codex MCPGenerate images, PDFs and videos in Codex.
Add Orshot to Codex to render images, PDFs and videos from your templates, publish straight to social, and post at the best time to grow engagement.
100 free credits a month · 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
Install in Codexcodex mcp add orshot --url https://mcp.orshot.com/mcp- 1Or install the Orshot app: run /plugins in Codex to open the plugin browser.
- 2Search for Orshot, open it, and select Install plugin.
- 3Start a new chat, then ask Codex to render from your templates.
The CLI command adds Orshot to ~/.codex/config.json. Authenticate over OAuth or pass an Orshot API key as a bearer token.
Full docs8 in 10 Orshot workspaces now render through an AI agent.
84% of workspaces that rendered in the last 30 days used an agent at least once. Our own accounts are left out.
One prompt, assets in your build.
Codex calls the Orshot tools inline, renders from your templates, and hands back URLs you can drop straight into your code, CI or CDN.
- Publish to social from the same call, no extra API
- Render an OG image and reference it in your meta tags
- Batch-render assets from a CSV or database, one per row
- Pipe every render straight into your own S3 or CDN
Render this week's quote graphic from my template and post it to LinkedIn.
Every render comes back ready to ship.
In Codex, renders come back as links you can open. In the Claude and ChatGPT apps, the same results come back as interactive cards you can flip through.
- Every render comes back as a link Codex can open
- The same Orshot tools, whatever your MCP client
- Interactive cards in the Claude and ChatGPT desktop and web apps
Copy a prompt, get an editable template.
Paste one into Codex and you get a real Orshot template back, with every text and photo ready to change through the API.
- 1080×1080 · PNG + MP4
Podcast episode card
Create a new-episode card for my podcast: show name, EP 112, the episode title, the guest photo in a gradient ring and an audio waveform.
- 1200×628 · PNG
Facebook ad
Make a 1200×628 Facebook ad for a vitamin C serum: 'Brighter skin in 14 days', a 20% off badge, the star rating and a Shop now button. Product photo on the right.
- 1200×630 · PNG
Blog OG image
Create a 1200×630 Open Graph image for our engineering blog: category pill, post title, author photo, date and read time on a dark background with a soft glow.
- 1920×1080 · PNG
TV menu board
Design a 1920×1080 TV menu board for Smash House: six items with prices, a burger photo on the right and a combo badge.
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.”
“Design a square invite series for the winter events: gala night, supper club and the gilded hour, one look across all three.”
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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.”
“Render a cover for every session in rows A1–A500: title, speaker and date.”
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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.”
“Render the customer quote from today's call and publish it to our Instagram and LinkedIn.”
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+38%engagementAutomate 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.”
“Set up a workflow: for every new session row, render the episode cover and post it to our Slack.”
orshot_list_workflow_nodesorshot_create_workfloworshot_run_workflowScoped by OAuth, nothing else touched.
OAuth 2.0, standards-compliant
Authorization code with PKCE and dynamic client registration, per the MCP Authorization spec. Tokens stay in your MCP client; the server does not store them.
Scoped to your workspace
Each connection accesses only the Orshot workspaces of the account that authorized it. Disconnect from your client at any time to end access.
Tool calls only
The server receives tool calls and their inputs, nothing else. It never reads your conversation, files or memory, and it only talks to Orshot's own API.
Annotated, permission-aware tools
Every tool declares read-only or write behavior, and destructive actions like delete and publish are marked so your client asks before running them.
Full details in the MCP server reference, the help center, the privacy policy and the terms of service. Questions from your security team? Write to hi@orshot.com.
Orshot turned content production from an hour-a-piece design exercise into something that runs off our existing workflow.
Consistent, on-brand, and fast enough that we actually ship daily.
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Using Orshot with Codex
Where does the Codex CLI store the Orshot config?
Can I use Orshot with Codex headlessly?
Does the Orshot MCP work in both the Codex CLI and IDE extension?
Can Codex render more than images?
What can Codex do with Orshot once connected?
Is the Orshot MCP server free to use?
What data can the Orshot MCP server access?
How are risky actions like delete or publish handled?
Can Codex post to my social accounts?
Give Codex your templates. 100 free credits every month to try.
No credit card. Connect the hosted MCP server, then let Codex render images, PDFs and video from your Orshot templates.
