pika

Pika-fy your Claude

Give your Claude a face, name, voice, and personality — plus a full creative stack of image, video, audio, and editing tools. All in your terminal.

> /pika:podcast https://pika.art
  scraping page (capture_website)...
  writing 4-act script (Host A · Host B)...
  rendering 4 video acts × ~15s (native multi-shot)...
  concatenating final clip...
  done.
View video: https://cdn.pika.art/agent/<task-id>/podcast-final.mp4

Until now, every Claude was just Claude. With the Pika MCP + Plugin it can be a person you design — a 3D avatar, a cloned voice, a long-term memory of who you are — driving Pika's complete creative stack: video, image, voice cloning, music generation, deterministic HTML→video rendering, automatic captions, and ffmpeg-based finishing. AI-native by design — not a GUI wrapped in an API.

How Pika fits together

Pika has three layers — your Agent (persona), the MCP server (protocol), and the Claude Code plugin (curated skills). The plugin auto-registers the MCP via its bundled .mcp.json — you don't have to wire anything by hand.

Layer	What it is	Where it lives
Pika Agent	Your persona — name, face, voice, and persistent memory — applied to every tool call	pika.me · iOS app
Pika MCP	Open-protocol server exposing 42 atomic creative tools (image, video, voice, music, edit)	https://mcp.pika.me/api/mcp
Pika Plugin	3 curated /pika:* slash commands that orchestrate multi-step pipelines on top of the MCP	This repo

Same backend, same auth, same output. MCP (Model Context Protocol) is Anthropic's open standard for connecting agents to external tools — Pika MCP works with any MCP-compatible client; see Other Claude surfaces & MCP clients for non-Claude-Code setups.

Tool names are shown unprefixed throughout this README (e.g. generate_video, clone_voice). Inside Claude Code the actual MCP tool prefix is mcp__plugin_pika_pika__* — both the curated skills and the tool catalog work without you ever needing to type the prefix.

Quickstart

Requires Claude Code ≥ v2.0.12 (when the /plugin marketplace commands first shipped).

1. Create your Pika Agent

If you don't already have one, create your Pika Agent at pika.me or via the iOS app. Your Pika Agent carries your persona, voice, avatar, and persistent memory across every Pika tool call — without it, the plugin has no identity to drive.

2. Install the plugin

Pick the surface you use:

Claude Code CLI (terminal)

claude plugin marketplace add Pika-Labs/Pika-Plugins
claude plugin install pika@pika-plugins

Claude Code Desktop (macOS / Windows app)

UI-driven, with one slash-command line for the one-time marketplace registration. In the Code tab:

1. In the prompt box, type /plugin marketplace add Pika-Labs/Pika-Plugins and hit Enter.
2. Click the + button next to the prompt box → Plugins → Add plugin → find pika → Install.

Step 1 goes away once Pika lands in Anthropic's official marketplace — until then, the Desktop UI's plugin browser only surfaces plugins from already-configured marketplaces (tracked in claude-code#52147).

3. Restart Claude Code

Full quit and reopen — .mcp.json only loads at startup, and /reload-plugins alone isn't enough.

4. Authenticate

Inside Claude Code:

> /mcp

Find pika, hit Authenticate — your browser opens to the Pika sign-in page, sign in with the same account as your Pika Agent, the token is cached locally, and Claude Code reconnects automatically. Done. (See Authentication for headless / CI options.)

5. Use it

You don't need to type slash commands — Pika skills auto-fire on natural-language intent. Both forms below do the same thing:

> /pika:podcast https://pika.art
> make me a podcast about https://pika.art

> /pika:explainer https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code
> walk me through this repo: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code

> generate a 5-second video of a red panda dancing in the rain