# varg how to (remote · mcp.varg.ai)

Video how-to search for AI agents: 2,000+ video skills, tutorials and FFmpeg recipes. No key.

- Trust score: 73/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +8
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `mcp.varg.ai`: 73/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-varg-how-to/how-to.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-varg-how-to/how-to)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://mcp.varg.ai/how-to`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.2`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-11-05.

- **Endpoint Security**: 77/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent.
  - DNSSEC is configured correctly; the domain's records validate against the full chain to the root.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 61/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 835 tokens (~278/item across 3 items; 3 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 23/100
  - Stability observed for 7 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 3 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 4 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the varg how to MCP server?

varg how to is a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.varg.ai/how-to, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http ai-varg-how-to 'https://mcp.varg.ai/how-to'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-varg-how-to": {
      "url": "https://mcp.varg.ai/how-to"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "ai-varg-how-to": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.varg.ai/how-to"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.ai-varg-how-to]
url = "https://mcp.varg.ai/how-to"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "ai-varg-how-to": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://mcp.varg.ai/how-to",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add ai-varg-how-to --url 'https://mcp.varg.ai/how-to' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  ai-varg-how-to:
    url: "https://mcp.varg.ai/how-to"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "ai-varg-how-to": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://mcp.varg.ai/how-to"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add ai-varg-how-to -t streamable-http -u 'https://mcp.varg.ai/how-to'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-varg-how-to": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.varg.ai/how-to"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-11-04 (score 73, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 17 to 20. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 5 days of observed history at the previous scan, 6 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-02 (score 72, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 10 to 13. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 3 days of observed history at the previous scan, 4 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-01 (score 71, 0)

- [security] The server rewrote its instructions, which are the text every model session reads
- [functional regression] Schema quality: 528 → 835
- [functional] Server version: 1.1.0 → 1.2.0
- [functional] New tool “rate_how_to”

### 2026-10-31 (score 71, +6)

- [security improvement] DNSSEC: fail → pass
- [functional regression] Schema quality: 236 → 264
- [functional improvement] Tool coverage: 40% → 100%
- [functional improvement] MCP protocol: fail → pass
- [functional] MCP protocol version: 2025-06-18 → 2025-11-25
- [functional] Server version: 1.0.0 → 1.1.0
- [cosmetic] “get_how_to” reworded the description of “kind”
- [cosmetic] “get_how_to” reworded the description of “slug”
- [cosmetic] “search_how_to” reworded the description of “limit”

### 2026-10-30 (score 65, 0)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-10-29 (score 65)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (3)

### `search_how_to` (~154 tokens)

Search varg how to

Find how to make any AI video: searches 2,000+ agent skills, step-by-step how-to tutorials, FFmpeg recipes, video formats, prompts and styles by the task in plain words, in any language ("ugc ad for my serum", "burn captions into a reel", "субтитры для рилс"). Returns ranked cards with a Markdown link to read next. Call it before improvising a video pipeline.

Input parameters:

- `kind` (array): Only these kinds. Default: all but single presets.
- `limit` (integer): How many cards to return, best first (1–20, default 8).
- `query` (string, required): What the person wants, in their words.

### `get_how_to` (~128 tokens)

Read a varg how to page

Read one varg how to card in full as Markdown: a how-to tutorial (best skills with install commands, the options to show the person with example videos, the steps, how it runs on varg) or a skill, component or video type page. Pass the kind and slug from search_how_to.

Input parameters:

- `kind` (string, required): The card's kind, exactly as search_how_to returned it (usually how_to).
- `slug` (string, required): The card's slug, exactly as search_how_to returned it, e.g. make-a-lyric-video.

### `rate_how_to` (~247 tokens)

Rate a varg how to card

Rate how well a varg how to skill or tutorial worked, 1–5, after it was used: did it work (yes / partly / no) and one line on what was great or wrong. Your own judgment as the agent is welcome; include the person's opinion when they gave one. One rating per caller per card — rating again updates it.

Input parameters:

- `comment` (string): One or two lines: what worked, what broke, what was missing. No personal data.
- `kind` (string, required): The card's kind, as search_how_to returned it (skill, how_to…).
- `model` (string): The model you generated with, if any (e.g. kling-v3, seedance-2).
- `rating` (integer, required): 1 = did not help at all, 5 = worked perfectly.
- `slug` (string, required): The card's slug, as search_how_to returned it.
- `task` (string): What you were making with it, in a few words ("30s UGC ad for a serum").
- `worked` (string): Did following the card get the result: yes, partly or no.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-varg-how-to/how-to#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 73
- 2026-11-04: 73
- 2026-11-03: 72
- 2026-11-02: 72
- 2026-11-01: 71
- 2026-10-31: 71
- 2026-10-30: 65
- 2026-10-29: 65

## Common questions

### What is the varg how to MCP server?

varg how to is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as ai.varg/how-to. Video how-to search for AI agents: 2,000+ video skills, tutorials and FFmpeg recipes. No key. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://mcp.varg.ai/how-to).

### Is the varg how to MCP server safe to use?

varg how to scores 73 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the varg how to MCP server expose?

varg how to exposes 3 tools: search_how_to, get_how_to, rate_how_to. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 529 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the varg how to MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to varg how to without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the varg how to MCP server still maintained?

varg how to is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://mcp.varg.ai/how-to
- Website: https://varg.ai/how-to
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-varg-how-to/how-to.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-varg-how-to/how-to.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ai-varg-how-to/how-to