How to integrate Runway MCP with Claude Code

Manage your Runway directly from Claude Code with zero worries about OAuth hassles, API-breaking issues, or reliability and security concerns. You can do this in two different ways: Via Composio Connect - Direct and easiest approach Via Composio SDK - Programmatic approach with more control

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Runway is a generative AI media platform for creating and transforming video, images, audio, avatars, voices, and creative workflows. It helps teams build high-quality visual content faster with API-driven media generation.

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Introduction

Manage your Runway directly from Claude Code with zero worries about OAuth hassles, API-breaking issues, or reliability and security concerns.

You can do this in two different ways:

  1. Via Composio Connect - Direct and easiest approach
  2. Via Composio SDK - Programmatic approach with more control

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Why use Composio?

  • Only one MCP URL to connect multiple apps with Claude Code with zero auth hassles.
  • Programmatic tool calling allows LLMs to write its code in a remote workbench to handle complex tool chaining. Reduces to-and-fro with LLMs for frequent tool calling.
  • Handling Large tool responses out of LLM context to minimize context rot.
  • Dynamic just-in-time access to 20,000 tools across 1000+ other Apps for cross-app workflows. It loads the tools you need, so LLMs aren't overwhelmed by tools you don't need.

Connecting Runway to Claude Code using Composio

1. Add the Composio MCP to Claude

Terminal

2. Start Claude Code

bash
claude

3. Open your MCP list

bash
/mcp

4. Select Composio and click on Authenticate

Select Composio and click Authenticate

5. This will redirect you to the Composio OAuth page. Complete the flow by authorizing Composio and you're all set.

Composio OAuth authorization page
Composio authorization complete
Ask Claude to connect to your account and authenticate via the link

What is the Runway MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Runway MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Runway account. It provides structured and secure access to your generative media, workflows, knowledge documents, and account usage, so your agent can generate media, transform content, run workflows, manage documents, and monitor activity on your behalf.

  • Image and video generation: Have your agent create images from prompts, generate videos from text, or animate existing images with your chosen Runway model.
  • Media transformation and upscaling: Direct your agent to restyle existing videos or upscale images and videos for higher-quality results.
  • Speech and sound creation: Let the agent synthesize speech with supported voices or generate sound effects from written descriptions.
  • Workflow and knowledge management: Instruct your agent to inspect and run published workflows, then create, review, update, or delete knowledge documents used by avatar workflows.
  • Task, credit, and usage monitoring: Have your agent check generation progress, retrieve completed media, cancel running tasks, and review credit balances, quotas, and daily usage.

Connecting Runway via Composio SDK

Composio SDK is the underlying tech that powers Rube. It's a universal gateway that does everything Rube does but with much more programmatic control. You can programmatically generate an MCP URL with the app you need (here Runway) for even more tool search precision. It's secure and reliable.

How the Composio SDK works

The Composio SDK follows a three-phase workflow:

  1. Discovery: Searches for tools matching your task and returns relevant toolkits with their details.
  2. Authentication: Checks for active connections. If missing, creates an auth config and returns a connection URL via Auth Link.
  3. Execution: Executes the action using the authenticated connection.

Step-by-step Guide

Step by step10 STEPS
1

Prerequisites

Before starting, make sure you have:
  • Claude Pro, Max, or API billing enabled Anthropic account
  • Composio API Key
  • A Runway account
  • Basic knowledge of Python or TypeScript
2

Install Claude Code

bash
# macOS, Linux, WSL
curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash

# Windows PowerShell
irm https://claude.ai/install.ps1 | iex

# Windows CMD
curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.cmd -o install.cmd && install.cmd && del install.cmd

To install Claude Code, use one of the following methods based on your operating system:

3

Set up Claude Code

bash
cd your-project-folder
claude

Open a terminal, go to your project folder, and start Claude Code:

  • Claude Code will open in your terminal
  • Follow the prompts to sign in with your Anthropic account
  • Complete the authentication flow
  • Once authenticated, you can start using Claude Code
Claude Code initial setup showing sign-in prompt
Claude Code terminal after successful login
4

Set up environment variables

bash
COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your_composio_api_key_here
USER_ID=your_user_id_here

Create a .env file in your project root with the following variables:

  • COMPOSIO_API_KEY authenticates with Composio (get it from Composio dashboard)
  • USER_ID identifies the user for session management (use any unique identifier)
5

Install Composio library

npm install @composio/core dotenv

Install the Composio TypeScript library to create MCP sessions.

  • @composio/core provides the core Composio functionality
  • dotenv loads environment variables from your .env file
6

Generate Composio MCP URL

import 'dotenv/config';
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';

const { COMPOSIO_API_KEY, USER_ID } = process.env;

if (!COMPOSIO_API_KEY || !USER_ID) {
  throw new Error('COMPOSIO_API_KEY and USER_ID required in .env');
}

const composioClient = new Composio({ apiKey: COMPOSIO_API_KEY });

const composioSession = await composioClient.create(USER_ID, {
  toolkits: ['runway'],
});

const composioMcpUrl = composioSession?.mcp.url;

console.log(`MCP URL: ${composioMcpUrl}`);
console.log(`\nUse this command to add to Claude Code:`);
console.log(`claude mcp add --transport http runway-composio "${composioMcpUrl}" --headers "X-API-Key:${COMPOSIO_API_KEY}"`);

Create a script to generate a Composio MCP URL for Runway. This URL will be used to connect Claude Code to Runway.

What's happening

  • We import the Composio client and load environment variables
  • Create a Composio instance with your API key
  • Call create() to create a Tool Router session for Runway
  • The returned mcp.url is the MCP server URL that Claude Code will use
  • The script prints this URL so you can copy it
7

Run the script and copy the MCP URL

node --loader ts-node/esm generate_mcp_url.ts
# or if using tsx
tsx generate_mcp_url.ts

Run your TypeScript script to generate the MCP URL.

  • The script connects to Composio and creates a Tool Router session
  • It prints the MCP URL and the exact command you need to run
  • Copy the entire claude mcp add command from the output
8

Add Runway MCP to Claude Code

bash
claude mcp add --transport http runway-composio "YOUR_MCP_URL_HERE" --headers "X-API-Key:YOUR_COMPOSIO_API_KEY"

# Then restart Claude Code
exit
claude

In your terminal, add the MCP server using the command from the previous step. The command format is:

  • claude mcp add registers a new MCP server with Claude Code
  • --transport http specifies that this is an HTTP-based MCP server
  • The server name (runway-composio) is how you'll reference it
  • The URL points to your Composio Tool Router session
  • --headers includes your Composio API key for authentication

After running the command, close the current Claude Code session and start a new one for the changes to take effect.

9

Verify the installation

bash
claude mcp list

Check that your Runway MCP server is properly configured.

  • This command lists all MCP servers registered with Claude Code
  • You should see your runway-composio entry in the list
  • This confirms that Claude Code can now access Runway tools

If everything is wired up, you should see your runway-composio entry listed:

Claude Code MCP list showing the toolkit MCP server
10

Authenticate Runway

The first time you try to use Runway tools, you'll be prompted to authenticate.

  • Claude Code will detect that you need to authenticate with Runway
  • It will show you an authentication link
  • Open the link in your browser (or copy/paste it)
  • Complete the Runway authorization flow
  • Return to the terminal and start using Runway through Claude Code

Once authenticated, you can ask Claude Code to perform Runway operations in natural language. For example:

  • "Generate product teaser videos from prompts"
  • "Animate brand images into short clips"
  • "Create cinematic backgrounds for ads"

Complete Code

Here's the complete code to get you started with Runway and Claude Code:

import 'dotenv/config';
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';

const { COMPOSIO_API_KEY, USER_ID } = process.env;

if (!COMPOSIO_API_KEY || !USER_ID) {
  throw new Error('COMPOSIO_API_KEY and USER_ID required in .env');
}

const composioClient = new Composio({ apiKey: COMPOSIO_API_KEY });

const composioSession = await composioClient.create(USER_ID, {
  toolkits: ['runway'],
});

const composioMcpUrl = composioSession?.mcp.url;

console.log(`MCP URL: ${composioMcpUrl}`);
console.log(`\nUse this command to add to Claude Code:`);
console.log(`claude mcp add --transport http runway-composio "${composioMcpUrl}" --headers "X-API-Key:${COMPOSIO_API_KEY}"`);

Conclusion

You've successfully integrated Runway with Claude Code using Composio's MCP server. Now you can interact with Runway directly from your terminal using natural language commands.

Key features of this setup:

  • Terminal-native experience without switching contexts
  • Natural language commands for Runway operations
  • Secure authentication through Composio's managed MCP
  • Tool Router for dynamic tool discovery and execution

Next steps:

  • Try asking Claude Code to perform various Runway operations
  • Add more toolkits to your Tool Router session for multi-app workflows
  • Integrate this setup into your development workflow for increased productivity

You can extend this by adding more toolkits, implementing custom workflows, or building automation scripts that leverage Claude Code's capabilities.

TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Runway action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Cancel Task

Cancel a running Runway task or delete its task record.

Create Document

Create a Runway knowledge document from markdown or plain text for reuse by avatar workflows.

Create Ephemeral Upload

Create only a temporary Runway media upload slot and return its presigned multipart form details and runway:// URI.

Delete Document

Permanently delete a Runway knowledge document by its ID.

Generate Image

Start a Runway text-to-image or reference-guided image generation task and return its task ID and estimated credit cost.

Generate Sound Effect

Generate an audio effect from a text prompt and return the task ID and estimated credit cost.

Generate Speech

Synthesize speech with Runway using an exact model-specific voice and option contract, then return the task ID and estimated credit cost.

Generate Video from Image

Animate one or more input images with a selected Runway model and return the task ID and estimated credit cost.

Generate Video from Text

Start a Runway text-to-video task with a model-specific typed request and return its task ID and estimated credit cost.

Get Document

Get one Runway knowledge document, including its full content and the avatars that currently use it.

Get Organization

Return the connected Runway organization's credit balance, monthly credit spend cap, exact per-model quotas, and current daily generation usage.

Get Task

Get the current status, cost, output URLs, and failure details for a Runway generation task.

Get Usage

Return daily Runway credit usage by model for an optional UTC date range of up to 90 days.

Get Workflow

Get a published Runway workflow version and its graph so node IDs and output keys can be inspected before running the workflow.

Get Workflow Invocation

Get the current status, completed node output URLs, and node or invocation failure details for a Runway workflow invocation.

List Documents

List Runway knowledge documents one page at a time, with sorting and an opaque continuation cursor.

List Workflows

List the connected account's published Runway workflows and their available versions, ordered as returned by Runway.

Run Workflow

Invoke a published Runway workflow, optionally overriding graph node outputs, and return the created workflow invocation ID.

Transform Video

Transform or restyle an existing video with Runway and return the created task ID and estimated credit cost.

Update Document

Change the name, content, or both for an existing Runway knowledge document.

Upscale Image

Start a Runway image upscaling task and return its task ID and estimated credit cost.

Upscale Video

Start a Runway video upscaling task and return its task ID and estimated credit cost.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone Runway MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Runway tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Runway and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Yes, you can. Claude Code fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right Runway tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Runway scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your Runway data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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