ChatGPT Video Generator MCP: Connect Ziztu to ChatGPT

• A Ziztu account. 40 free credits for scripts, character art, storyboards, voices and sound, plus your first 5 second video free, no card. More video starts at $12.
• A ChatGPT plan that allows full MCP. OpenAI's help center says custom MCP server connections and full MCP support are available for ChatGPT Business and Enterprise or Edu customers on ChatGPT web. It says Pro users can connect custom MCP servers with read and fetch permissions only, and that full MCP is only available to Business and Enterprise or Edu users. It does not list Free or Plus.
• The right role. On Business, only admins and owners can create and publish a connection. On Enterprise or Edu, admins can grant selected members the permission, called Create plugins with MCPs.
• The web app. OpenAI says custom MCP servers cannot be connected on mobile.

OpenAI's current Plugins experience adds a custom server straight from Plugins, and you do not need to turn on Developer Mode first. These steps follow its help article.

https://getziztu.com/mcp

Step 6. Sign in to Ziztu and press Allow

ChatGPT starts the OAuth sign-in and sends you to Ziztu. Ziztu opens its own sign-in. Sign in with your Ziztu account, then read the consent screen: it shows what ChatGPT asks for and lets you tick or untick each permission. Keep Create and generate ticked if you want ChatGPT to make things, and press Allow.

Paid steps are still capped: the screen says every paid step needs a spend cap and anything above 500 credits needs an explicit confirmation.

Use Ziztu to plan a 60 second vertical micro drama about a baker who finds a love letter in the dough. Create the project, ask the Director to plan it, apply the plan, then quote the first frames. Do not make anything yet. Tell me the price and which shots are blocked.

Once the first plan is back, these prompts take you from the plan to a film. Each one that costs credits tells the app to use a cap, and the app shows you the price first.

Make the first frames for that project with max_credits set to the quote. When they are done, show me the frames and wait. I will tell you whether to animate.

Animate shot 1 only, with max_credits set to its quote. Tell me what it cost and show me the clip before you do any other shot.

When I am happy with the clips, quote the music, make it with max_credits set to the quote, then export the film and tell me how to download it.

Use Ziztu to plan a 45 second anime episode in a hand-painted look about a girl who finds a sleeping whale made of cloud over her village. Give the girl and the whale a fixed look, plan the shots, and quote the first frames. Do not spend anything yet.

Ziztu also runs a smaller server at https://getziztu.com/mcp/planner that only plans, writes and prices. It has 24 tools. Seven plan and price an episode: list_projects, create_project, get_project, director_plan, director_chat, apply_plan and quote. Six are the free writing tools: write_logline, write_script, write_dialogue, write_shot_list, write_character_backstory and write_story_ideas. Eleven are the whole AI Script Writer: start_script_draft, get_script_job, read_script, ask_script_editor, decide_script_edit, get_script_doctor_notes, list_script_versions, restore_script_version, import_script, get_script_file and script_to_shots, so an AI app can write a full screenplay draft, ask the script editor for changes, read the doctor's notes, keep versions, import a Fountain or Final Draft file and turn scenes into a shot plan. It makes no images, video or audio. It is the edition meant for connector directory listings, and as of 18 October 2026 it is not listed in Claude's or OpenAI's directory. Nothing on this page means either company endorses Ziztu.

For everything described on this page, add the full connector at https://getziztu.com/mcp, as a custom connector. It has all 30 tools, including making frames, clips and music, with a spend cap on every paid call. The tool lists for both editions are on the MCP server docs.

If you are on Plus or Pro and cannot add a server with write access, you have three ways forward:

• Use the connector in an app that supports it on your plan today. Claude, Codex and Cursor take the same address.
• Use Ziztu directly in the studio. It does the same planning, pricing and making in a normal screen.
• Ask your workspace admin. On Enterprise or Edu, admins can give selected members permission to connect custom MCP servers.

These rules can change. The help article was marked as updated two days before we read it on 18 October 2026, so check it for your plan.

Ziztu is a studio for micro dramas and anime series, so the connection gives your AI app 30 tools for the whole job, not a single clip button:

• Plan. Ask the Director for the cast, the places and every shot of an episode, then apply the plan to a project.
• Price. Quote frames, clips or music before anything runs. The quote also lists any shot that is blocked and why.
• Make. Make the first frame of each shot, animate the shots you pick and generate the music, each with a spend cap you set.
• Keep going. Check jobs, check your credit balance and export the finished film as an MP4. The same project opens in the Ziztu studio, where you can edit it.
• Run apps. Start the one-shot Ziztu apps (animation, manga, story video and more) from the same chat.

The cast stays the same across every shot and every episode, because the characters live in the project and not in the chat.

This is The Wrong Wedding, a 32 second vertical episode made in Ziztu with the same three characters in all seven shots. It started from one sentence, the same kind of prompt you give your AI app.

The Wrong Wedding, episode 1: 32 seconds, seven shots, three characters, made in Ziztu from one sentence.

9:16 · 32 s

The prompt that made it

A live-action vertical micro drama, episode 1: on her wedding day a bride reads a message on the groom's phone and walks down the aisle anyway, smiling. End on a cliffhanger when she takes the microphone.

Giving an AI app a way to spend money needs hard limits. These are enforced by the Ziztu API, not by the chat, so the app cannot talk its way around them:

• A spend cap on every paid call. max_credits is required on first frames, clips, music and app runs. If the exact price is higher, the call is refused before anything starts.
• A second yes above 500 credits. A bigger spend also needs confirm: true, and the tool descriptions tell the app to ask you first.
• Price before spend. The quote tool and dry_run: true return the exact credits and start nothing.
• You choose the permissions. The consent screen lists three: see your account, create and generate, and export films. Untick Create and generate and the app can look but cannot spend.
• Disconnect any time. Open getziztu.com/oauth/connections, find the app and end it. The next call fails at once.

A connection itself costs nothing. You pay in credits, on your own Ziztu account, and the price of each step is shown before it runs.

• Free to start: 40 free credits for scripts, character art, storyboards, voices and sound, plus your first 5 second video free, no card. More video starts at $12.
• Video needs a plan. Plans start at $12 a month. On Starter, a 5 second clip costs about $0.37 at 480p or $0.60 at 768p. See pricing for every plan and pack.
• Your app is billed separately. Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Grok and Cursor have their own plans and limits. Ziztu only charges for what runs in Ziztu.

• You cannot find Add custom MCP server. Your role or plan may not allow it. On Business only admins and owners can create a connection. Ask one, or use another app from the list on this page.
• ChatGPT shows a tool error after a Ziztu update. After an admin approves a server, ChatGPT keeps a snapshot of its tools. If tool definitions change, an admin may need to refresh the tool list from workspace app settings.
• ChatGPT keeps asking you to sign in. OpenAI says an OAuth server must offer refresh tokens or users may need to sign in again. Ziztu advertises offline_access. Disconnect and add the server again if it still loops.
• The sign-in window does not open or closes at once. Allow pop-ups for the app, then start the connection again. In a terminal app, copy the link it prints into your browser.
• The app can plan but says it cannot spend. The connection was made without Create and generate. Disconnect it at getziztu.com/oauth/connections, connect again and keep that box ticked.
• A call is refused with over_max_credits. The cap was lower than the exact price. Ask the app for the quote, then set max_credits at or just above it.
• A call is refused with confirm_required. The price is above 500 credits. Read the price, and if you agree, tell the app to continue with confirm set to true.
• It says you have no credits (HTTP 402). Ask the app to check your balance. Free credits cover the planning and a new account's first 5 second clip; more video starts on a plan.
• The app asks you to sign in again. Do it. Access renews by itself, but ending a connection on the connected apps page removes it for good.

The steps for each app follow its own official page, read on 18 October 2026. Apps change their menus, so if a label looks different, trust the app and the page below.

• OpenAI Help Center: Connecting custom MCP servers in ChatGPT
• Higgsfield Help Center: How do I connect Higgsfield to Claude, ChatGPT, or another AI agent?