Automating QuikGIF with scripts and the MCP server

Beyond one-off recordings, QuikGIF can produce repeatable, multi-step demos - and it plugs directly into AI coding tools.

Scripts (.qgif)

A .qgif script describes a demo as a sequence of steps - open an app, focus a window, record, type, click, highlight, zoom, then render. You run one with:

quikgif script demo.qgif

To see the full command vocabulary for your installed version, ask QuikGIF directly rather than guessing:

quikgif script --list-commands

You can validate a script’s syntax without running it using --dry-run. Listing commands and dry-run validation work on the free tier; actually executing a script is a Pro feature. Full syntax reference lives at docs.quikgif.com.

The MCP server

QuikGIF ships an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server so AI tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and VS Code can drive it - for example, capturing a UI state to hand back to an assistant as context. Register it with:

quikgif mcp-install

You can target a specific client with --client claude-code (or cursor, vscode, and others). Check what’s registered with quikgif mcp-status. The MCP server itself is free to run; individual capabilities still respect Pro gating.

If you installed QuikGIF only from the Mac App Store, the bundled CLI is sandboxed and can’t run mcp-install. Install the command-line build with curl -fsSL https://quikgif.com/install.sh | sh and it takes over.

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