# Phoenix Labs (remote · api.phoenixlabs.space)

Restore old video and turn images into clips with sound. Pay from a capped balance, by card or USDC.

- Trust score: 32/100 (low)
- Change this week: −28
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-04

## Components

- remote · `api.phoenixlabs.space`: 32/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/thekillsquad007-phoenix-labs/api.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/thekillsquad007-phoenix-labs/api)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://api.phoenixlabs.space/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.1.0`

## 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 2026-10-04.

- **Endpoint Security**: 81/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - The endpoint enforces authorisation, advertised via RFC 9728 protected-resource metadata.
  - HTTPS enforcement could not be verified: the plaintext port answered with HTTP 405, which proves neither a plaintext path nor enforcement.
  - HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
  - The authorisation server supports Client ID Metadata Documents, the current MCP client-registration mechanism.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 0/100
  - Transport blocked by authentication: the endpoint requires auth we don't have to verify streamable-http.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 0/100
  - Schema blocked by authentication: the endpoint requires auth we don't have to read it.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 0/100
  - Stability not yet verified: not enough scan history yet (needs a 30-day window).
- **Tool Coverage**: 0/100
  - Tool coverage blocked by authentication: the endpoint requires auth we don't have to read its tools.
- **Tool Safety**: 0/100
  - Tool safety blocked by authentication: the endpoint requires auth we don't have to read its tools.
- **Capabilities**: 0/100
  - Capabilities blocked by authentication: the endpoint requires auth we don't have to read them.

**Unverified: 6 categories.** Categories scored 0 because we could not verify them: authentication we do not have, an unreachable endpoint, or not enough scan history. We only credit what we can confirm.

## Install

### How do I install the Phoenix Labs MCP server?

Phoenix Labs is a hosted endpoint at https://api.phoenixlabs.space/mcp, 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 thekillsquad007-phoenix-labs 'https://api.phoenixlabs.space/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "thekillsquad007-phoenix-labs": {
      "url": "https://api.phoenixlabs.space/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "thekillsquad007-phoenix-labs": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.phoenixlabs.space/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.thekillsquad007-phoenix-labs]
url = "https://api.phoenixlabs.space/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "thekillsquad007-phoenix-labs": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://api.phoenixlabs.space/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add thekillsquad007-phoenix-labs --url 'https://api.phoenixlabs.space/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  thekillsquad007-phoenix-labs:
    url: "https://api.phoenixlabs.space/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "thekillsquad007-phoenix-labs": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://api.phoenixlabs.space/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add thekillsquad007-phoenix-labs -t streamable-http -u 'https://api.phoenixlabs.space/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "thekillsquad007-phoenix-labs": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.phoenixlabs.space/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

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.

### 2026-09-29 (score 32, 0)

- [security regression] Endpoint reachability: reachable → behind authorisation

### 2026-09-28 (score 32, −28)

- [functional] We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server

### 2026-09-27 (score 60)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (13)

### `get_prices` (~30 tokens)

Current prices and limits for Phoenix Motion clips and Cloud Restore, in US dollars. Free, no key needed.

### `quote_restore` (~126 tokens)

Exact price in US dollars to restore one video clip in the cloud, from its length and resolution. Free, no key needed.

Input parameters:

- `duration_seconds` (number, required): Length of the clip in seconds.
- `height` (integer): Frame height in pixels, if known.
- `quality` (string): standard: denoise, deinterlace, 2x upscale. enhanced: adds AI detail reconstruction, for badly degraded footage. studio_max: enhanced, delivered at up to 4K.
- `width` (integer): Frame width in pixels, if known (default: standard definition).

### `create_restore` (~300 tokens)

Start a cloud restore of an old video (tape, DVD, film scan, old phone clip): denoise, deinterlace, rebuild detail and upscale. Returns an upload_url; PUT the video there, then call start_restore. With an agent key it is paid from the balance now (pay_with 'balance'), and refunded to the balance if it fails. With pay_with 'checkout' (or no key) the user pays through a checkout link that start_restore returns. Up to 2 GB; standard up to 30 minutes, enhanced and studio_max up to 6 minutes.

Input parameters:

- `content_type` (string, required): The video's MIME type, e.g. video/mp4.
- `duration_seconds` (number, required): Length in seconds. The GPU checks it; a file much longer than declared is refused and refunded.
- `email` (string): Needed for pay_with 'checkout': where the receipt goes.
- `filename` (string, required): The video's file name, e.g. wedding-1994.mp4.
- `height` (integer)
- `pay_with` (string): Default: balance when this connection has a key, otherwise checkout.
- `quality` (string): standard: denoise, deinterlace, 2x upscale. enhanced: adds AI detail reconstruction, for badly degraded footage. studio_max: enhanced, delivered at up to 4K.
- `size_bytes` (integer)
- `width` (integer)

### `start_restore` (~54 tokens)

After the video is uploaded: starts a balance-paid restore on the GPU, or returns the checkout_url the user must open to pay for a checkout restore (it starts once they have paid).

Input parameters:

- `job_id` (string, required)

### `get_restore` (~39 tokens)

Status of a restore. When status is 'done', download_url is the restored video (valid 24 hours).

Input parameters:

- `job_id` (string, required)

### `make_clip` (~207 tokens)

Phoenix Motion: turn one still image into a five-second video clip at 24 fps, with sound made in the same pass, from a prompt describing the motion, camera and sound. Costs the listed price (see get_prices) from the balance; a clip that fails or is refused costs nothing. Pass image_url to start at once; otherwise PUT the image to the returned upload_url and call start_clip.

Input parameters:

- `content_type` (string): Needed only when uploading instead of image_url.
- `image_url` (string): Public link to a JPEG, PNG or WebP image, up to 20 MB.
- `loop` (boolean): Seamless loop: only what the prompt names moves, and the clip ends where it starts.
- `prompt` (string, required): What moves, how, and what the camera and sound do. Up to 800 characters.
- `seed` (integer): Reuse a clip's seed to get the same take again.
- `size` (string)

### `start_clip` (~32 tokens)

After uploading the image to make_clip's upload_url: start making the clip.

Input parameters:

- `clip_id` (string, required)

### `get_clip` (~43 tokens)

Status of a clip. When status is 'done', video_url plays it and download_url saves it (both valid 24 hours).

Input parameters:

- `clip_id` (string, required)

### `list_clips` (~21 tokens)

The most recent clips made with this key, newest first.

### `cancel_job` (~55 tokens)

Cancel a restore or clip whose file was never uploaded, and get its price back on the balance at once.

Input parameters:

- `job_id` (string, required): A restore's job_id (cloud_…) or a clip_id (motion_…).

### `get_balance` (~31 tokens)

The Phoenix balance this key can spend: the balance, and this key's limit, amount spent and amount left.

### `create_top_up_link` (~73 tokens)

A checkout link the user opens to add money to the balance (US$5 to $200). Nothing is charged until they pay.

Input parameters:

- `amount_usd` (number, required): Dollars to add, 5 to 200.
- `email` (string): For the receipt, if the balance doesn't have one yet.

### `top_up_with_usdc` (~121 tokens)

Add money to the balance by paying USDC on Base yourself, with x402 (for assistants that hold a crypto wallet). Call it without a payment to get the payment requirements back (an x402 PaymentRequired error), sign the EIP-3009 transfer, then call it again with the signed payment in _meta['x402/payment']. $1 to $200; 1 USDC adds $1. No gas needed: the facilitator pays it.

Input parameters:

- `amount_usd` (number, required): Dollars to add, 1 to 200.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/thekillsquad007-phoenix-labs/api#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-10-04: 32
- 2026-10-03: 32
- 2026-10-02: 32
- 2026-10-01: 32
- 2026-09-30: 32
- 2026-09-29: 32
- 2026-09-28: 32
- 2026-09-27: 60

## Common questions

### What is the Phoenix Labs MCP server?

Phoenix Labs is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.thekillsquad007/phoenix-labs. Restore old video and turn images into clips with sound. Pay from a capped balance, by card or USDC. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://api.phoenixlabs.space/mcp).

### Is the Phoenix Labs MCP server safe to use?

Phoenix Labs scores 32 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 Phoenix Labs MCP server expose?

Phoenix Labs exposes 13 tools: get_prices, quote_restore, create_restore, start_restore, get_restore, and 8 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 1,132 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Phoenix Labs MCP server require authentication?

Yes. Phoenix Labs asked us for credentials when we connected, so you will need to authorise it in your MCP client before it can do anything.

### Is the Phoenix Labs MCP server still maintained?

Phoenix Labs is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 4 October 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://api.phoenixlabs.space/mcp
- Website: https://phoenixlabs.space/developers
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/thekillsquad007-phoenix-labs/api.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/thekillsquad007-phoenix-labs/api.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/thekillsquad007-phoenix-labs/api