Give Claude Code a creative harness.

NodeTool is an open-source app for making images, video, audio, and text with AI. You describe what you want, and a built-in AI agent does the work: it writes, generates, and edits inside NodeTool's editors. Then you can change any part yourself. You get an editable project, not just a finished file, so your steps, media, and edits stay together. Run supported AI models on your own computer, or connect online AI providers such as OpenAI, Google, and fal.ai with your own accounts.

It means you connect your own provider accounts and pay each provider directly at its published price. NodeTool does not add a credit system or a provider-price markup. The provider still receives the requests you send to its models. You will sometimes see this written as BYOK.

Yes, in Studio. Sign in with ChatGPT or Claude, and the agent runs on that subscription instead of an API key. With the NodeTool Chrome extension, NodeTool also uses the ChatGPT or Gemini tab you are signed in to: ChatGPT generates images, and Gemini runs chat, images, and video. Those runs count against your plan's limits, so you get no pay-per-call bill for them. Every run shows up in your ChatGPT or Gemini history.

The leading models, including Flux, Seedance, Wan, Veo, Kling, Hailuo, Qwen Image, Whisper, ElevenLabs, and Suno, reached through providers such as FAL, KIE, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Replicate, Together, Groq, Mistral, OpenRouter, and HuggingFace. Models can also run on your own computer through MLX, Ollama, llama.cpp, vLLM, and LM Studio.

It means the AI agent works in the same editors you do. The node canvas, sketch pad, storyboard, video timeline, script editor, 3D scene, game editor, and app builder each give the agent the actions you have, so it can change your project the way you would. A log records every action the agent took, its result, and any error. Coding agents outside NodeTool, such as Claude Code, can use the same actions through MCP, the standard way AI agents connect to outside tools.

Yes. NodeTool runs as an MCP server. Run npx -y --package=@nodetool-ai/cli-mcp nodetool-mcp install and restart the agent. The command registers NodeTool with Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode, and nodetool-mcp config prints a config block for Cursor, Claude Desktop, and other clients. The agent gets workflows, image, video, and audio generation, and your asset library as tools. Studio is optional. When Studio runs, the agent's changes appear in the open editor.

A harness is what an AI agent works inside: the tools it can call, the documents it can change, the models and keys it may use, and the record of what it did. NodeTool is a creative harness. It gives the built-in agent, or a coding agent such as Claude Code over MCP, image, video, and audio generation and the same editors you use. The agent runs on your provider accounts, every tool call is logged, and the work stays as editable workflows and projects. NodeTool is open source under AGPL-3.0.

A planning agent takes a goal, breaks it into steps, picks a model or tool for each step, and works through them in order, adjusting as it goes. In NodeTool an agent is a block on the canvas, so its results feed into the rest of your workflow.