Claude
DirectoryOpen CineFlo in the Claude Directory and choose Connect. There's nothing to type.
By hand: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector. Paste the address and leave OAuth Client ID and OAuth Client Secret empty.
Connected Apps
Connect your assistant to CineFlo
Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code and Codex can read the projects you pick and, if you let them, edit them. You set each tab to Off, View or Edit. A few things never leave CineFlo, whatever you switch on.
Part of CineFlo Pro, which starts with a free trial. No account yet? You can create one when you connect.
ProjectNight Shift
Phone numbers and emails are never shared.
Add CineFlo to your assistant
Every assistant connects to the same address.
https://mcp.cineflo.com/mcpChatGPT
Developer modeOn chatgpt.com, go to Settings → Apps & Connectors → Advanced and turn on Developer mode. Create a connector with the address, and choose OAuth as the authentication.
Custom connectors work on chatgpt.com in a browser, not in the ChatGPT apps.
Claude Code
TerminalAdd it from your terminal, then run /mcp in Claude Code to sign in.
claude mcp add --transport http cineflo https://mcp.cineflo.com/mcpCodex
MCP serverAdd an MCP server with the address. Leave the bearer token and headers empty.
Then, in your browser
Sign in
The assistant opens CineFlo's connect page in your browser. Sign in with Google, Apple or your email and password.
Pick what it can reach
Open a project and set each tab. Off hides it, View lets the assistant read it, and Edit lets it add and change things.
Choose Allow
You're sent back to the assistant, and it can start on whatever you ask.
Only continue if you started the connection yourself. If someone sent you a link to the connect page, close it.
You need your own Pro plan
Connected Apps is part of CineFlo Pro, and that includes collaborators: working on someone else's Pro project doesn't cover it.
New to CineFlo? Create your account on the sign-in page when you connect, with Google, Apple or an email address, and start a free trial there.
On shared projects, the owner decides
Connected apps stay off for collaborators until the owner turns on Let collaborators connect apps. The owner's settings are the most a collaborator can switch on, and a collaborator's assistant never gets more than their own access to a tab.
The CineFlo plugin for Claude
The connector gives Claude access. The plugin gives it production know-how: twelve skills that make it ask how a scene will be shot before designing coverage, break down a script the way a first AD would, and never guess an address on a call sheet. It uses the same connection and the same switches, and adds no access of its own.
Build a shot list
Plans coverage around the project's coverage style and camera package, asking once if those aren't known, and shows you the shots before saving them.
Break down the script
Tags cast, extras, props, wardrobe, vehicles, effects and the rest, scene by scene, reusing what's already in the breakdown.
Handle a script revision
After a new draft, shows which scenes changed and what that touches in the breakdown, shot lists and schedule.
Plan shoot days
Groups unscheduled scenes by location, day or night, and cast, and lays them onto shoot days.
Prep a call sheet
Drafts the day's sheet from the stripboard and asks for what it can't know, like the nearest hospital. You send it from CineFlo.
Track the shoot day
Records what you report from set ("we got 4A") and tells you whether the day will make it.
Build a prep checklist
Turns the breakdown and schedule into department to-dos with owners and due dates.
Scout locations
Logs recce notes the way the crew needs them (power, access, noise, sun path) and links scenes to places.
Make a lookbook
Builds a mood board for the film, a location or a character from notes, palettes and the references you name.
Set up cast and crew
Numbers the cast the call-sheet way and orders the crew list by department.
Review the budget
Reads the cost report and explains what's over, what's committed and what's left.
Start a project
Creates a project and hands you the link to import your screenplay.
Nothing is shared until you choose.
What you control
Access is set per project and per tab. These are the tabs you can switch on.
- Scenes & Shots
- Script breakdown
- Schedule
- Call sheets & ContactsOne switch for both. Names and roles, never phone numbers or emails.
- LocationsAddresses included.
- FilesTitles and links you pasted, never uploaded files.
- Moodboards
- To-Dos
- DiagramsNames only. Edit means rename.
- Budget
Script pages
Own switchThe screenplay text has a switch of its own. With it on, the assistant can read the script's scenes. It never sees the title page and can't change a word.
Images
Own switchNeeds Scenes & Shots on. The shot list the assistant opens inside the chat then shows each shot's reference images, loaded in your browser and never sent to the AI model. On shared projects, the owner decides whether collaborators can turn it on.
Watch it, pause it, end it
In CineFlo, under Settings → Privacy & Data → Connected Apps.
Activity
What each assistant did, in plain language ("Added 12 shots to Scene 4"), for the last 90 days. It records which items were touched, not what they say.
Pause all
Stops every connected app until you switch it off again. Nothing is disconnected and no settings are lost.
Disconnect
Ends one connection, and its access stops within a minute. To use that assistant again, you connect it from the start.
Once you've connected an assistant, each project's Share sheet gets a Connected Apps row with the same per-tab controls. Owners set the collaborator limit there too.
What you can ask
Ask in your own words and the assistant picks the tools. If a tab it needs is Off or only at View, CineFlo tells it which one, so it can tell you.
Here's the treatment for our short, The Long Way Home. Make it a new CineFlo project and add the scenes.
Creates the project, adds a scene for each one in the treatment with its slugline and synopsis, and gives you the importer link for when there's a screenplay.
- No tab yet: the new project opens at Edit
Build a shot list for Scene 12: a wide to establish the diner, a two-shot at the counter, and close-ups on both of them.
Adds the shots to the end of Scene 12 with size, angle and description filled in, numbered in your own style (A, B, C or 1, 2, 3) the way the app would.
- Scenes & Shots at Edit
Schedule scenes 4 through 9 on October 14 and draft that day's call sheet.
Adds the shoot day if it's missing, puts the six scenes on it, then drafts a call sheet for October 14 from the stripboard with the scenes, times and cast they need. Nothing is sent: you check it and send it from CineFlo.
- Schedule at Edit
- Scenes & Shots at Edit
- Call sheets & Contacts at Edit
Read Scene 7 and tag the props and wardrobe in the breakdown.
Reads the scene, adds the props and wardrobe it finds to the breakdown and tags them in Scene 7. The script text stays exactly as it was.
- Script breakdown at Edit
- Script pages on
How is the budget looking? Compare the estimate to complete with what we've actually spent, by account.
Reads the cost report, sums actuals, commitments, estimate to complete and estimated final cost per account, and points out the ones forecast to go over. Nothing changes.
- Budget at View
Which camera department to-dos are overdue?
Reads the To-Do board, narrowed to the Camera list and to tasks past due in your time zone, and lists each with its due date and assignee.
- To-Dos at View
Starting a project from a chat
An assistant with edit access can create a project from a treatment or pitch you've shared. The project is yours, and it starts open to your connected apps at Edit on every tab, with Script pages on. Change that like any other project.
Your screenplay goes through the importer
The assistant gives you a link to CineFlo's importer. You drop in the PDF, Final Draft .fdx or Fountain file, and CineFlo builds the scenes, cast breakdown and script pages as it does for any import. The assistant never uploads files or writes script text.
Every tool, by tab
All 54 tools CineFlo offers an assistant, grouped by the tab that switches them on. Reading needs the tab at View. Changing or deleting needs Edit, and a few also need a second tab, which the description says. None of them can send anything to anyone, and every delete can be restored in CineFlo for 30 days.
Projects4 tools · 2 read, 2 change
Available with any tab switched on.
| Tool | What it does | Access |
|---|---|---|
List Projectslist_projects | Lists the projects you have opened to connected apps, with what the assistant may do on each tab. | Reads · View |
Get Project Overviewget_project | One project at a glance: your role and its tab access, plus the scene list, scene and shot counts and the first and last shoot dates when those tabs are on. | Reads · View |
Create Projectcreate_project | Creates a new project that you own, from a title and optionally a logline, director, DP, producer and company. It starts empty and open to your connected apps at Edit on every tab, and comes with a link to CineFlo's script importer. | Changes · Edit |
Update Projectupdate_project | Edits the project's title, logline and production details (director, DP, producer, company). Only the owner's assistant can use it, and only on a project with at least one tab at Edit. | Changes · Edit |
Scenes & Shots10 tools · 3 read, 7 change
| Tool | What it does | Access |
|---|---|---|
Get Sceneget_scene | One scene, by id or scene number: slugline, INT/EXT, location, time of day, story day, length in eighths of a page, cast numbers, synopsis and its shots in order. | Reads · View |
Get Shotsget_shots | The shot list for the whole project or one scene, in the order the app shows it, a page at a time. | Reads · View |
Save Scenessave_scenes | Adds scenes or edits them, up to 100 at a time. Only the fields sent change, and scene numbers stay unique. Shoot dates come from the schedule, not from here. | Changes · Edit |
Save Shotssave_shots | Adds shots to the end of a scene or edits them: description, size, angle, movement, rig, lens, camera, cast, status, estimated time and notes. A new shot without a number gets the next one in your own numbering style (A, B, C or 1, 2, 3, skipping I and O if you chose that). | Changes · Edit |
Reorder Shotsreorder_shots | Sets the shooting order of a scene's shots and can renumber them to match, as dragging does in the app. Custom names such as PU1 keep theirs. | Changes · Edit |
Renumber Shotsrenumber_shots | Renumbers a scene's shots in their current order, in your numbering style. | Changes · Edit |
Get Shot Planningget_shot_planning | How the project will be shot: coverage style (classic, long takes, handheld, efficient or stylized), how many cameras, the camera bodies, lenses and aspect ratio, and which of those aren't known yet. | Reads · View |
Save Shot Planningsave_shot_planning | Sets or changes that shot-planning context. Asked with nothing to set, an assistant that can show forms asks you for the answers in a short form and saves them. The answers are kept with the project so you're asked once. | Changes · Edit |
Delete Scenedelete_scene | Deletes a scene and its shots. Its strips come off the schedule too when the assistant can also edit Schedule. | Deletes · Edit |
Delete Shotdelete_shot | Deletes one shot. | Deletes · Edit |
Shot list view1 tool
Assistants that support interactive views can show a shot list inside the chat. This tool belongs to that view: the assistant can't call it, and what it returns goes to the view in your browser, not to the AI model.
| Tool | What it does | Access |
|---|---|---|
Get Shot Imagesget_shot_images | Returns links to the shots' reference images for the shot list view to display. The links expire after 10 minutes, and location data is removed from the images. Needs Scenes & Shots at View and Images switched on. | Reads · View |
Script breakdown and Script pages7 tools · 3 read, 4 change
| Tool | What it does | Access |
|---|---|---|
Get Scene Textget_scene_text | The screenplay text of one scene or up to 40 at once, read-only, each cut near 12,000 characters. Needs the Script pages switch as well. The title page is never included. | Reads · View |
Get Script Breakdownget_breakdown | Breakdown elements (cast, props, wardrobe, vehicles and the rest) and the scenes each one is tagged in, filtered by scene or category if asked. | Reads · View |
Save Breakdown Elementssave_breakdown | Adds, renames or recategorizes elements and tags them into scenes. Tagging a character also puts it on the cast list and on the scene's cast, so that needs Contacts and Scenes & Shots at Edit too. The script text can't be changed. | Changes · Edit |
Delete Breakdown Tagdelete_breakdown_tag | Removes one element from one scene. The element itself stays in the breakdown. | Deletes · Edit |
Get Script Infoget_script_info | The current draft's title, revision colour and date, and which scenes are new, changed or omitted since the previous draft. No script text. | Reads · View |
Update Breakdown Tagsupdate_breakdown_tags | Changes a tag's notes for one scene or all of an element's scenes, or moves a tag to another scene. | Changes · Edit |
Get Script Import Linkget_script_import_link | Returns a link that opens CineFlo's own importer for the project. You drop in the PDF, Final Draft or Fountain file; the assistant never handles it. The link changes nothing by itself. | Link only · Edit |
Schedule6 tools · 1 read, 5 change
| Tool | What it does | Access |
|---|---|---|
Get Scheduleget_schedule | Shoot days in date order with each day's crew call and its strips (scenes, single shots and breaks), with start and end times worked out from the call, Day X of Y, the shots of a split scene each day covers, and what is not on a day yet. Day and strip notes are not included. | Reads · View |
Save Shoot Dayssave_shoot_days | Adds shoot days or edits them, one day per date, including the crew call the day's strip times run from. Moving a day moves its scenes with it, which needs Scenes & Shots at Edit too. | Changes · Edit |
Schedule Scenesschedule_scenes | Puts scenes on shoot days or moves them to another day or position, adding the day if needed. It can also split a scene across days, putting just some of its shots and pages on a day. It sets each scene's shoot dates, so it needs Scenes & Shots at Edit too. | Changes · Edit |
Edit Schedule Dayedit_schedule_day | Holds a strip at a set time, changes day or night labels and notes, sets which shots and pages a split scene shoots that day, adds or moves breaks, and reorders a day. It never takes anything off the schedule. | Changes · Edit |
Unschedule Itemsunschedule_items | Takes scenes or single shots off the schedule and removes breaks. The scenes, shots and days themselves are kept, and removed strips can be restored in CineFlo for 30 days. | Changes · Edit |
Delete Shoot Daydelete_shoot_day | Deletes a day and its strips. Its scenes become unscheduled; the scenes and shots themselves are kept. | Deletes · Edit |
Call sheets & Contacts7 tools · 2 read, 5 change
| Tool | What it does | Access |
|---|---|---|
Get Call Sheetsget_callsheets | Each sheet's date, Day X of Y, general call times, locations, notes, scenes with their strip times, and who is called. No phone numbers, emails or send history. Addresses only with Locations on. | Reads · View |
Save Call Sheetsave_callsheet | Drafts or edits one call sheet. A new sheet is filled from the stripboard for its date: scenes, shots, times, breaks and the cast those scenes need. It is never sent and its PDF is not made; you send it from CineFlo. | Changes · Edit |
Delete Call Sheetdelete_callsheet | Deletes one call sheet and the PDF copy CineFlo keeps of it in Files. | Deletes · Edit |
Get Cast and Crewget_cast_and_crew | Cast (character and cast number), crew (department and job title) and clients, with default call, pickup and wrap times. No contact details or pay rates. | Reads · View |
Save Cast and Crewsave_cast_and_crew | Adds or edits cast, crew and clients. New cast get the lowest free cast number. Contact details can't be set here. | Changes · Edit |
Reorder Crewreorder_crew | Sets the order of one crew department as it lists in Contacts and prints on call sheets. | Changes · Edit |
Remove Cast or Crewdelete_cast_or_crew | Removes one person from this project. They stay in the owner's phonebook. | Deletes · Edit |
Locations3 tools · 1 read, 2 change
| Tool | What it does | Access |
|---|---|---|
Get Locationsget_locations | Named locations (name, INT/EXT, address, notes) and location scouts (dates, notes and a photo count). No photos, video, GPS or weather. | Reads · View |
Save Locationssave_locations | Adds or edits locations and scouts. Photos, video, GPS and weather stay in the app. | Changes · Edit |
Delete Location or Scoutdelete_location | Deletes one location or scout. Scenes that pointed at a location keep their typed location text. | Deletes · Edit |
Files3 tools · 1 read, 2 change
| Tool | What it does | Access |
|---|---|---|
Get Filesget_files | The Files tab in grid order: title, tag and notes. Only links you added come with their address; uploaded files are listed without one. | Reads · View |
Save Filessave_files | Adds web links and edits titles, tags, notes and order. It can't upload files or change a link's address. | Changes · Edit |
Delete File Linkdelete_file_link | Deletes one web link. Uploaded files and the files CineFlo makes can only be removed in the app. | Deletes · Edit |
Moodboards5 tools · 1 read, 4 change
| Tool | What it does | Access |
|---|---|---|
Get Moodboardsget_moodboards | Boards and their sections, and a board's cards: notes, palettes, links, captions and linked scenes. Images are not included, only their captions. | Reads · View |
Save Moodboardsave_moodboard | Creates a board or edits its title, description, subject and sections. A section left out of an edit is removed with its cards. | Changes · Edit |
Save Moodboard Cardssave_moodboard_cards | Adds note, link and palette cards; edits captions, notes, colours, linked scenes and favourites; and moves cards. Image cards can't be added. | Changes · Edit |
Delete Moodboarddelete_moodboard | Deletes a board and all its cards. | Deletes · Edit |
Delete Moodboard Carddelete_moodboard_card | Deletes one card. | Deletes · Edit |
To-Dos3 tools · 1 read, 2 change
| Tool | What it does | Access |
|---|---|---|
Get To-Dosget_todos | Tasks with their list, due date, assignee and urgency (Overdue, Today, This week, Later, Done, worked out in your time zone), filtered by list or urgency if asked. | Reads · View |
Save To-Dossave_todos | Adds or edits to-dos and department lists. An assignee who is a member of the project or its owner is linked to them; any other name is kept as text. Email addresses aren't accepted. | Changes · Edit |
Delete To-Dodelete_todo | Deletes a to-do, or a list, whose tasks then move to Uncategorized. | Deletes · Edit |
Diagrams2 tools · 1 read, 1 change
| Tool | What it does | Access |
|---|---|---|
Get Diagramsget_diagrams | Each diagram's name, how many objects it holds, and when it was made and last changed. The drawing itself is not included. | Reads · View |
Rename Diagramrename_diagram | Renames a diagram. Nothing else about it can change, and diagrams can't be deleted from a chat. | Changes · Edit |
Budget3 tools · 1 read, 2 change
| Tool | What it does | Access |
|---|---|---|
Get Budgetget_budget | The cost report: accounts, line items, purchase orders and actuals, with budgeted, committed, actual, estimate to complete, estimated final cost and variance, worked out the way the app does. | Reads · View |
Save Budgetsave_budget | Adds or edits accounts, line items, purchase orders and actuals. With no budget yet, it starts one on the standard 21-account chart. Line totals are always quantity times rate. Locking and changing the currency stay in the app. | Changes · Edit |
Delete Budget Itemdelete_budget_item | Deletes an account (with its line items), a line item, a purchase order or an actual. | Deletes · Edit |
What CineFlo keeps
Everything stored when you connect an assistant, and when it goes. The privacy policy covers the same ground.
| What | What's in it | Kept for |
|---|---|---|
| Connection record | The assistant's name, the permissions you gave it, your time zone (so "today" lands on your calendar), and when it was connected and last used. A disconnected connection stays marked as disconnected. | Until you delete your account |
| Your choices | Each project's tab settings and the Pause all switch. | Until you delete your account |
| Activity | The tool, the project, the ids of the items touched, the names of changed fields, whether it worked, and a one-line summary. Never what the fields say. Only you can see it. | 90 days |
| Change marks | Items an assistant creates or edits note which assistant did it and when. | With the item |
| Shot-planning answers | Coverage style, cameras, lenses and aspect ratio, readable by the assistants connected to that project. | Until the project or your account is deleted |
| Daily usage counts | How many times each tool was used on your account, and by which assistant. Tool names and numbers only, used to run and improve Connected Apps. | 1 year |
| Sign-in tokens | Stored only as one-way hashes, so a copy of the database couldn't be used to sign in. Each refresh token works once. | 5 minutes for a sign-in request, 1 hour for an access token, 30 days for a refresh token |
What the assistant receives
Only what its tools return, from the tabs you switched on for that project. Never phone numbers, email addresses, uploaded files, storage links or photo GPS.
Ending a connection
Disconnect in CineFlo and access stops within a minute. Removing CineFlo in the assistant's own settings stops that assistant; disconnecting in CineFlo too makes sure it has ended on our side.
Model training
Once an assistant has something, its provider's policies apply. Whether chats train their models is your setting with them:
- Claude, Claude Code
- Claude → Settings → Privacy
- ChatGPT, Codex
- ChatGPT → Settings → Data controls
Questions and fixes
Still stuck?
Email support@cineflo.com or use the contact form and choose General App Support. We aim to reply within two business days.
Say which assistant, which project and roughly what you asked. Activity in CineFlo shows which tool ran and when. Never send a password or a sign-in code.
Common questions
What's the difference between the connector and the plugin?
The connector is the connection itself: it lets an assistant read and change your projects, within the tabs you switch on. The plugin adds skills on top, instructions for how production work gets done, like building a shot list or prepping a call sheet. It uses the connector and never has more access than it does.
Do I need a CineFlo account first?
No. When you connect, CineFlo's sign-in page lets you create an account with Google, Apple or an email address. Connecting an assistant is part of CineFlo Pro, so a new account is offered a free trial on the same page, and the connection finishes when you come back to it. Until then, the CineFlo plugin still helps in the chat and tells Claude how to point you here.
Do I need the plugin?
No. The connector works on its own in every assistant. The plugin makes Claude better at the common production jobs, so it asks the right questions and gets the result in shape the first time.
Is CineFlo in the Claude and ChatGPT directories?
Yes. In Claude, find CineFlo in the Claude Directory to add the connector, or under Customize → Plugins to add the plugin with its skills. The listings connect to the same server and ask for the same per-project, per-tab choices as adding it by hand.
Can the assistant see my contacts' phone numbers?
No. Phone numbers and email addresses are never shared, for anyone, even with Call sheets & Contacts at Edit. Neither is your phonebook or any rate card. The assistant sees names, roles, characters, cast numbers, departments and call times.
Can it send call sheets or invite people?
No. An assistant can't send a call sheet, invite a collaborator or share a project. It can build a call sheet completely, and a person sends it from CineFlo.
Does the assistant get my whole script?
Only if you switch on Script pages, which is separate from the breakdown. With it on, the assistant can read the script's scenes, never the title page, and it can't change a word.
Can the assistant see my images?
No. With Images on, a project's shot reference images appear in the shot list view inside the chat, loaded in your browser for you to see. They aren't part of what the AI model receives. The links expire after 10 minutes and location data is removed. With Images off, the default, they don't appear at all.
Can a collaborator connect an assistant to my project?
Only if you allow it. Connected apps stay off for collaborators until you turn on Let collaborators connect apps for that project, and what you set there is the most any collaborator can switch on. They need their own CineFlo Pro subscription, and their assistant never gets more than their own access to a tab.
Do collaborators see my assistant's activity?
No. Activity is per person: you see what your own assistants did, and nobody else does. Changes an assistant makes show up in the project like anyone's edits.
How do I stop an assistant?
In Settings → Privacy & Data → Connected Apps, Pause all stops every connected app until you switch it off again, and keeps your settings. Disconnect ends one connection for good, and its access stops within a minute. It doesn't undo anything the assistant already changed, and anything it deleted can still be restored for 30 days.
Will my projects be used to train AI models?
Once CineFlo shares something with an assistant, that provider's policies apply. Whether your chats train their models is a setting with them: Claude → Settings → Privacy for Claude and Claude Code, and ChatGPT → Settings → Data controls for ChatGPT and Codex.
When something doesn't work
"This app can't connect to CineFlo" or "Unknown client"
Something was typed into the OAuth Client ID or OAuth Client Secret field when the connector was added. Remove the CineFlo connector, add it again with https://mcp.cineflo.com/mcp, and leave both fields empty. The assistant registers itself.
A project or tab is missing after I changed access
Changes reach the assistant within about 30 seconds, so give it a moment and ask again. If it still can't see it, start a new chat: an assistant remembers what it found earlier in a conversation, including the project list. A project only appears once at least one of its tabs is at View or Edit.
The assistant says it can view a tab but not change it
That tab is at View for this project. Switch it to Edit in Settings → Privacy & Data → Connected Apps. Some changes touch two tabs: scheduling a scene also sets its shoot date, so Schedule and Scenes & Shots both need Edit. On a shared project you also need edit access to the tab yourself, and the owner has to allow Edit for collaborators.
"Connected Apps is part of CineFlo Pro"
The CineFlo account that signed in isn't on Pro right now. Everyone who connects needs their own Pro subscription, collaborators included. Upgrade, or disconnect and sign in again with the account that has Pro.
"The owner hasn't allowed connected apps on this project"
You're a collaborator here, and connected apps are off for collaborators until the owner turns on Let collaborators connect apps. Ask them to switch it on in Connected Apps or from the project's Share sheet. What they allow is the most you can switch on.
"Connected apps are paused for this CineFlo account"
Pause all is on. Switch it off in Settings → Privacy & Data → Connected Apps and your assistants pick up where they left off, with the same settings.
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Your browser blocked it. Allow pop-ups for mcp.cineflo.com, then choose Google or Apple again. Signing in with your email and password doesn't need a pop-up.
