Connect Codex to Arcads
Set up in minutes
Choose where it runs
On your computer through your own Codex, or hosted in the cloud. The rest of setup adapts to your choice:
Pick what it can do in Arcads
A preset of real Arcads operations. Each one becomes a tool the agent can call, and it can't touch anything outside the list.
Connect Arcads
One sign-in. The agent acts through your account, scoped to the operations you picked.
Add your personal MCP link
The last step mints a private MCP URL for this agent and walks you through exactly this, with your real link filled in. The page flips to Connected the moment your Codex first calls in. Codex connects when a session starts — run codex, or restart a running one (in the Codex app, Restart).
Run this in your terminal. The Codex app shares its config, so it gets the server too
<your-link> is your personal server URL — setup mints it for you.
Tools Codex gets
Arcads
29 toolsList products in your workspace (paginated).
Create a new product.
Fetch a single product by ID.
Update an existing product.
Delete a product by ID.
List folders within a product (paginated).
Create a new folder within a product.
List scripts within a folder (paginated).
Create a new project (alternative container to folders).
Create a new script within a folder or project.
Fetch a script by ID.
Update a script (text, actor/situation selection, etc.).
Trigger AI-actor video generation for a script (async).
Generic video generation entry point (v2, supports model selection).
Trigger image generation (v2).
Generate a talking-actor (lip-synced) video (v2).
Trigger a camera-movement preset generation.
Trigger Veo 3.1 text-to-video generation.
Trigger Omnihuman avatar / talking-head generation.
Get generated videos for a script -- poll this for status + download link.
Fetch a single video by ID (status).
Get a playable/downloadable watch URL for a video.
Check the status of a workflow run.
Get a presigned URL to upload a source file.
List AI actors with optional filters (paginated).
List situations (scene contexts) available for a given actor.
List situations with optional filters (paginated).
List AI voices with optional filters (paginated).
List available preset types.
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