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Movies for AI Agents
Your personal AI movie buddy
Ask "what should I watch tonight?" and get picks that actually fit your taste. Mention a film and Claude quietly logs it. The more you talk, the smarter it gets.
Quick Start · Try it · Discord
Click to watch — 40-second demo.
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Quick Start
1. Get a free TMDB API key (~2 minutes) at https://www.themoviedb.org/settings/api — copy your API key.
2. Install the plugin — inside Claude Code, run:
/plugin marketplace add JCodesMore/jcodesmore-plugins
/plugin install movies-for-ai-agents@jcodesmore-pluginsThen fully restart Claude Code (quit the app and reopen).
3. Add your key — run /movies-for-ai-agents:setup and paste it when prompted. Done.
Try it
Talk to Claude like a friend:
- "What should I watch tonight?"
- "Find me that 90s movie about a hacker..."
- "I just finished Arrival, absolutely loved it." — auto-logs it, learns your taste
- "Add Weapons to my halloween list." — custom themed lists, organized by mood
- "Sci-fi with an IMDb rating of 8 or higher from the 2010s."
- "Hidden gems — highly rated but obscure."
Tell Claude you'll watch something tonight, and next session it'll ask how it went. Your taste profile follows you across every project and every machine.
Community
Discord — chat, help, show-and-tell · Issues — bugs & feature requests · Contribute · More plugins
<details> <summary><b>Where your data lives</b></summary>
Everything stays on your machine, outside any one project folder:
~/.claude/data/movies-for-ai-agents/
├── config.json ← your TMDB API key (permissions 600)
├── preferences.json ← your taste profile (liked genres, directors, interests, etc.)
├── watched.json ← what you've seen
├── lists.json ← every custom list, including the default "watchlist"
├── active.json ← films you've started but not finished
├── imdb-cache.json ← cached imdbapi.dev responses (24h/6h TTLs)
└── imdb-interests.json ← cached IMDb interest taxonomy (7d TTL)Your taste follows you across every project and every machine that shares this directory. No telemetry, no analytics — nothing leaves your machine except TMDB search queries.
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<details> <summary><b>Troubleshooting</b></summary>
| Something's off | Fix | |---|---| | "TMDB API key not configured" | Run /movies-for-ai-agents:setup — or set TMDB_API_KEY in your shell environment. | | Plugin doesn't show up in /mcp | Fully quit Claude Code and reopen. The plugin registers on startup. | | "Cannot find module '@modelcontextprotocol/sdk'" | Only happens with manual install — run cd mcp-server && npm install. | | Recommendations still feel generic | Tell Claude about 3–5 movies you love. Give it some signal to work with. |
More help in the Discord.
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<details> <summary><b>Advanced install (without the marketplace)</b></summary>
If you'd rather clone and run it directly:
git clone https://github.com/JCodesMore/movies-for-ai-agents.git
cd movies-for-ai-agents/mcp-server && npm install
cd ..
claude --plugin-dir .Or skip /movies-for-ai-agents:setup entirely by exporting your key as an environment variable:
export TMDB_API_KEY="your_key_here"The environment variable takes precedence over config.json when both are set.
Requirements: Node.js ≥ 18, free TMDB API key.
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<details> <summary><b>Built on</b></summary>
- moviedb-promise — TMDB client
- Model Context Protocol SDK — tool exposure to Claude
- TMDB — fuzzy search, trending, now-playing, ML recommendations, watch providers
- imdbapi.dev — IMDb ratings, Metascore, interest taxonomy, rating-aware discovery, awards, box office (no key required)
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License
Apache License 2.0 — © 2026 JCodesMore
> This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.
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