mcp-kodi
An MCP server that lets an AI assistant control a Kodi media player over Kodi's JSON-RPC API. Written in C on the GLib stack.
There is no user-facing CLI: you talk to the AI, the AI calls this server's tools, and the server speaks JSON-RPC to Kodi. The only interface is MCP over stdio.
Where this is going. The plan is a complete, full-featured package that lets any MCP-compatible AI transform the entire media-player experience — not just press buttons, but reinvent how you discover, queue, and enjoy your media. Tell the assistant what you're in the mood for and let it run the room: build the evening's lineup, pick up where you left off last night, adapt on the fly, and surface things you'd never have found yourself. We're aiming for something genuinely new — a mind-blowingly different way to live with your media player.
Status — early, but already remarkable (v0.2.0dev). A growing set of dedicated, purpose-built tools covers transport, volume, search, queue management, and playback history. What makes the build capable beyond that list is the
rpcescape hatch (see below): an opt-in passthrough to any Kodi JSON-RPC method. Between the first-class tools and that escape hatch, an assistant can already drive nearly everything Kodi exposes — remarkable enough that we decided to publish early rather than wait for the full vision to land. Expect frequent releases.
