Whichever transport you pick, the gating step is the same: an app key and secret issued by the Lianxin open platform, so budget the account signup before the install. The hosted endpoint is the shorter route if you only want to try it, because it needs no local Python at all.
A Python MCP server that fronts the Lianxin open platform (open.lianxinyun.com) for video analysis, connectable either as a local stdio process or through the vendor's hosted streamable-HTTP endpoint.
- A local stdio path: the client launches the project with uv and passes your credentials in the env block
- A hosted path: point the client at https://open.lianxinyun.com/mcp as a streamableHttp server, with your key pair in the `sk` header
- Separate setup paths for Linux/macOS and for Windows, each spelled out step by step
Generate an app key and secret at https://open.lianxinyun.com/ and pass them as `APP_KEY` and `APP_SECRET`. Locally you need uv with Python 3.13 and the mcp CLI package installed into the project. Keep the server and the chat client on the same operating system — the author warns against splitting them across Windows and WSL2 on one machine.