How to Install Pika MCP The Complete Setup Guide

Create Your Pika Agent

Your Pika Agent is the persistent persona that the MCP exposes to Claude. Spend a few minutes here the more thoughtful the setup, the more on-brand your Claude-generated content becomes.

1. Go to pika.me and click Get Started in the top-right corner.
2. Sign up with email, Google, or Apple. If you already have a legacy Pika video account, you'll still need to create a new one Pika Agents is a separate product.
3. Walk through onboarding: name your agent, design their face and voice, and write a short personality brief.
4. When you reach the dashboard, your agent is ready and the three identity files (identity, soul, style) are saved to your profile.

Open Claude and Sign In

If you don't have Claude yet, sign up. Both the free tier and Claude Pro work with custom connectors but heavy creative work goes faster on Pro thanks to higher rate limits.

1. Go to claude.ai and sign in (or sign up if it's your first time).
2. Optionally install the desktop app from claude.ai/download connectors sync automatically across web, desktop, and iOS once installed from the web.
3. Verify your email if Claude asks for it. You won't be able to add connectors otherwise.

Add the Pika MCP Connector

This is the core install step. You're telling Claude where to find Pika's MCP server, authorizing your account, and granting tool permissions.

1. Click your profile avatar in Claude and choose Settings.
2. In the sidebar, click Connectors (or open claude.ai/settings/connectors directly).
3. Scroll to the bottom and click + Add custom Connector.
4. In the dialog, enter Pika as the connector name.
5. Paste the MCP endpoint URL into the URL field (see the box below).
6. Click Sync Claude will verify the endpoint and show "Pika" in your connector list.

Connect and Authorize

After Sync, Pika appears in your connector list but is greyed out. One more click links it to your Pika Agent account via OAuth.

1. Find Pika in your connector list and click on it.
2. Click Connect. A browser tab opens to pika.me.
3. Sign in to Pika if you aren't already (use the account you created in Step 1).
4. Click Authorize Claude on Pika's permissions screen.
5. You'll be redirected back to Claude. Pika now shows as Connected.
6. Pick which tools to expose. The default is "all tools enabled" leave this unless you have a specific reason to limit.

Pikafy Your First Chat

Open a new Claude conversation. Before you generate anything, tell Claude to load your Pika Agent's identity files. Skip this step and the agent acts generic same caliber as raw pika.art.

Paste this prompt into your first message:

Claude will call the tool three times, read the files, and confirm with a short summary of who your agent is. From this point on, the agent is loaded for this conversation.

Install the Pika Skills Plugin

The Skills plugin adds slash commands for ready-made workflows: /pika:podcast, /pika:explainer, /pika:ugc-ads. Optional, but recommended if you regularly produce these formats.

1. In Claude desktop (or Cowork), open Customize.
2. Click the + next to Personal plugins → Create plugin → Add marketplace.
3. Paste this marketplace handle and click Sync:

4. Once the marketplace is added, open the Personal plugins tab and toggle the Pika plugin ON.
5. Test it by typing /pika: in any chat Claude will autocomplete with the available slash commands.

Test the Connection

Last step. Run a test prompt to confirm everything is wired correctly. If this returns a generated image or video, you're done.

Try a small, low-cost prompt first:

Claude should route the request to Gemini Image, ChatGPT Images 2, or SeedDream Image, debit a few tokens from your Pika Wallet, and return the rendered image inline. Total cost: a fraction of the smallest 800-token pack.