Hermoso — MCP, CLI & Skills

Run your whole marketing operation from any AI agent: Claude Code, Claude.ai, Cursor, Codex, or your own scripts. Research the ads already winning in a market, generate finished image & video ads (your real product composited in, copy + CTA included), publish them to your own social channels, and build & manage the ad campaigns behind them — all over MCP tools, a CLI, or installable Claude skills.

262 tools. tools/list is always the authoritative set; hermoso_capabilities (free) returns the live model catalog with exact per-render credit costs plus the full capability map.

Instant: the hosted Claude.ai connector

Paste https://app.hermoso.ai/mcp into Claude → Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, approve with your Hermoso account, done — the full toolset with your saved brand context, billed to your plan.

Quickstart for Claude Code / Cursor / scripts (2 minutes)

1. Get an account at app.hermoso.ai — free tier included; plans & credits are the same ones the web Studio uses.
2. Create an agent key: app.hermoso.ai → Settings → Agents & API → Create API key (hmk_…).
3. Connect — no clone needed, npx runs the published hermoso package (Claude Code shown; any MCP client works):

claude mcp add hermoso -e HERMOSO_TOKEN=hmk_… -- npx -y hermoso mcp

Your agent now has the full studio with your workspace's context: the brand profile, products, logos and learned memory you set up in the web app apply automatically (get_brand shows what's saved; omit brand in plan_ad/plan_variations to use it). Renders bill your Hermoso credits — same prices as the Studio.

1. MCP server (stdio) — Claude Code / Cursor / Codex

hermoso mcp runs a stdio MCP server exposing the full toolset. The published hermoso package means no clone — npx -y hermoso mcp fetches and runs it:

claude mcp add hermoso -e HERMOSO_TOKEN=hmk_… -- npx -y hermoso mcp

Cursor / Codex — add to mcp.json (Codex uses the TOML equivalent):

{ "mcpServers": { "hermoso": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "hermoso", "mcp"],
  "env": { "HERMOSO_API_BASE": "https://app.hermoso.ai", "HERMOSO_TOKEN": "<your token>" } } } }

Then ask your agent: “Generate an image ad with Hermoso.”

What the 262 tools cover

Ad spy / research — find_competitors, competitor_teardown, pull_competitor_ads, research_ads; the Meta / Google / LinkedIn ad libraries (search_meta_ads, search_google_ads, search_linkedin_ads); organic social (search_tiktok, search_instagram, search_youtube, search_reddit, search_threads); scrapecreators_fetch, mine_angles, analyze_video, check_ad_policy, list_skills / get_skill.

Create — draft_brand → plan_ad → render_ad (the Studio quality pipeline: composited text, clean speech, music, brand end card), or generate_image / generate_video / generate_avatar (UGC creators + lip-sync). The workspace's saved cast is reusable: list_creators returns every saved creator with their portrait url, save_creator adds one, delete_creator drops one — re-pass a portrait to generate_avatar / generate_video / recast_motion and the SAME person stars in every ad, instead of a new face each render. Also make_template_ad (native HTML ad formats), make_explainer, product_sizzle, make_thumbnail, remix_static, recast_motion, reframe_video, upscale_video, dub_video, change_voice, finish_video, fix_beat, stitch_video, clip_video, post_edit, plus plan_variations + score_ad to fan out and rank. Length is yours to set: pass durationSeconds to plan_ad and the storyboard is authored to it — ≤15s renders as one continuous clip, longer is stitched from acts (40s = 15+15+10), never time-compressed.

Raw model playground — the full catalog (30+ image / video / voice / writing models, each with its exact per-render credit cost) with no ad framing: generate_image / generate_video with useBrand:false, generate_voice, generate_text.

Publish to your own channels — Facebook, Instagram and Threads (post_to_meta), TikTok (post_to_tiktok), YouTube (post_to_youtube + update_youtube_video, youtube_video_insights, comments read/reply), X (post_to_x, x_post_metrics, x_post_insights, x_mentions), LinkedIn profile and company Pages (post_to_linkedin, post_to_linkedin_page), Pinterest (post_to_pinterest + boards), and Google Business Profile (post_to_google_business — Google grants this API per project, so access must be approved before Posts publish). schedule_post / list_scheduled / cancel_scheduled give you one content calendar across channels. upload_file brings in any external or local media, not just Hermoso renders. X posting bills credits per API call (X charges per request); a post containing a link costs 13× one without.

Run the ads — full campaign trees, built paused and read back before anything is reported, with every spend change confirm-gated, on Meta, Google Ads, LinkedIn Ads, Pinterest Ads, Microsoft Advertising and ChatGPT Ads (OpenAI's Advertiser API). Each has list + report + create + budget/status tools (e.g. list_google_ads_campaigns, google_ads_report, create_google_ads_campaign, set_google_ads_budget, set_google_ads_status). X Ads are not supported — X posting only.

Files — Google Drive CRUD (save_to_drive, list_drive_files, update_drive_file, delete_drive_file, create_drive_folder), Google Sheets (create_sheet, append_to_sheet, read_sheet), Google Docs (create_doc, append_to_doc), and OneDrive (save_to_onedrive + full CRUD).

Workspace & account — brand workspaces (list_brands, create_brand, use_brand, update_brand, delete_brand — one account holds many brands, so an agency runs every client through here), memory (remember, forget, list_memory), custom skills (save_skill, delete_skill), AI employees (save_employee, list_employees, set_active_employee), team (list_team, invite_member, remove_member, set_role), settings (get_settings, update_settings — including the language every ad, script and plan is written in), connectors (list_connectors, list_connector_accounts, set_connector_accounts, disconnect_connector), and billing (hermoso_credits, billing_status, buy_credits, upgrade_plan, set_auto_reload), plus list_jobs / get_job for async renders.

Connector accounts are picked, not guessed. One person often administers several Facebook Pages, Google Ads customers or LinkedIn company Pages. Only the accounts ticked for a brand are usable — enforced server-side, and an empty selection shares nothing. Linking a new account is the one step that is not headless (it is an OAuth consent screen, so the user does it in the app).

Render jobs queue server-side and poll to completion, returning a served URL.

2. CLI — the token-cheap path for terminal agents

bin/hermoso.mjs mirrors the core tools as subprocess commands, so an agent can shell out instead of carrying a fat tool manifest.

npm install -g hermoso                             # installs `hermoso`
hermoso capabilities                               # valid model ids + costs (run first)
hermoso create --brand "YourBrand" --product "your best-selling product" --format image
hermoso generate image --prompt "…" --ref ./product.png --wait
hermoso generate video --prompt "…" --duration 8 --wait
hermoso competitors yourbrand.com
hermoso research "Liquid Death’s longest-running ads"

Add --json to any command for machine output.

3. Claude skills — slash commands that wrap the CLI

skills/ holds four installable skills: hermoso-generate, hermoso-ad-from-brand, hermoso-product-photoshoot, hermoso-research.

cp -r skills/* ~/.claude/skills/

Then invoke /hermoso-ad-from-brand an ad for yourbrand.com — our hero product.

Configuration

mcp/http.mjs is the hosted remote-connector transport (paste-a-URL into Claude.ai → Connectors). It ships in this repo for transparency and refuses to mount without authenticated identity — no anonymous spend, ever.

License

MIT © Hermoso