01 · Records and state owned
Image and video generation inputs, generated media, edit and upscale requests, asynchronous tasks, task status, cancellation state, and Runway organization information.
Runway
Runway API
A leading generative-video platform with a developer API and SDKs for asynchronous media generation, useful as a production capability inside broader campaign or content interfaces.
Media generation, video & localizationSystem of productionExtensible SaaS
Concrete capability record
Data, retrieval, actions, identity, and operating limits
A field-by-field summary of what the reviewed first-party references actually support. Publisher update dates and BYO-UI review dates are shown separately below.
02 · Data you can retrieve
Retrieve a task's current details and inspect Runway organization information; generated asset URLs are returned through completed asynchronous task results.
03 · Actions and write paths
Generate images or image-conditioned videos, edit or upscale videos, and cancel or delete asynchronous tasks through the local Runway API MCP server.
04 · Authentication and permissions
The local server reads `RUNWAYML_API_SECRET`; Runway API keys are organization-scoped rather than user-scoped, so membership removal does not revoke an existing key used by connected clients.
05 · Monitoring, approval, and recovery
Review prompts, source-media rights, expected credit cost, and output destination before generation; separately confirm task cancellation or deletion and retain model, input, and result provenance.
06 · Limits and caveats
The server is locally installed with Node.js. Organization tiers cap concurrency and daily generations; excess concurrent tasks become throttled, and repository-linked generated images expire after 24 hours.
First-party access
Documented surfaces
Agent access
MCP support
Official MCP serverRunway official open-source MCP serverCurrent documented service
Support: Official MCP server
Read scope: Read individual asynchronous task details and organization information, then use completed task responses to locate generated image or video results before their URLs expire.
Write scope: Start image or video generation, video editing, and video upscaling tasks, or cancel and delete task records through the official local server.
Authentication: A locally configured `RUNWAYML_API_SECRET` authenticates the server to the Runway API; the key belongs to the organization and must be disabled separately when access changes.
Approval boundary: Require explicit confirmation before credit-consuming generation, edits, or upscales and before cancellation or deletion; show input assets, intended model operation, estimated cost, and output handling.
Protocol does not erase product boundaries.
Confirm the current tool catalog, plan, region, scopes, rate limits, terms, and write behavior before implementation.
Editorial assessment
Access-maturity dimensions
A comparative architecture lens—not a quality score, market ranking, or buying recommendation. Scale: 1–5.
Data access4
Action access4
Event access1
Identity2
Governance3
Agent access4
UI extensibility4
Portability3
Observability3
Documentation2
Proposed customer-shaped experiences
What customers could create on top.
The output could be an export, report, graph, artifact, application, agent, workflow, or downstream feed. These proposals are derived from documented access—not claims that Runway ships them.
Single-platform patterns
- Campaign video-variant generation studio
- Media production console
- Localization and variant studio
- Review-and-approval queue
Multi-platform compositions
- Runway API + publishing or campaign platform: media production console
- Runway API + DAM or CMS + social or video distribution system: cross-system decision workspace
Evidence and dates
First-party references, with publisher and review dates separated
“Publisher updated” is shown only when the page exposes an update date. “BYO-UI reviewed” records when this research checked the reference. A missing publisher date is reported as missing—not replaced with the review date.
3 recorded sources
MCP / agent-role validationRepresentative source
https://github.com/runwayml/runway-api-mcp-server ↗Local server deployment, image and video tools, task and organization tools, API-key configuration, tier limits, and output expiry
- Publisher updated
- Not stated by publisher
- BYO-UI reviewed
- Jul 22, 2026
Runway MCP tools, deployment, key setup, and runtime limits reviewed 2026-07-22
Developer APISource inventory
https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/ ↗First-party API and SDK documentation.
- Publisher updated
- Not stated by publisher
- BYO-UI reviewed
- Jul 10, 2026
Inventory source: structurally normalized; content was not individually reopened in this pass.
HomepageSource inventory
https://runwayml.com/ ↗Product overview.
- Publisher updated
- Not stated by publisher
- BYO-UI reviewed
- Jul 10, 2026
Inventory source: structurally normalized; content was not individually reopened in this pass.
Verified fact
Tied to cited first-party evidence reviewed for this profile.
Source inventory
Official links recorded for deeper research but not necessarily reopened endpoint by endpoint.
Editorial assessment
System role, maturity interpretation, and architectural boundary.
Proposed design
Interface patterns and compositions—not vendor product claims.