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name: get-started
description: Install Mistika Workflows and connect it to your AI app step by step, from the installer for your system to the connection to Codex (tasks in the ChatGPT desktop app and the Codex CLI) and the other AI apps on the computer. Use it when someone wants to install, update or license Mistika Workflows, agreed to set it up for a media task, has it installed but its tools are not available, or when its connection fails.
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# Get started with Mistika Workflows

Mistika Workflows is SGO's node-based media automation application, for Windows, macOS and Linux. Version 11.7 and later include an MCP server, `workflowsMcpServer` (server name `workflowsMcp`), that gives you tools whose names contain `workflows_`: with them you build, configure and run workflows and templates in the user's own installation. The Mistika Workflows installer installs that server and registers it in the AI apps it finds on the computer (the "AI Agents" components of the installer).

This skill takes the user from "no Mistika Workflows tools" to "tools available". What Mistika Workflows can do, and how to go about a media task, is in the `media-tasks` skill of this plugin. Using the tools is covered by the server's own instructions and `workflows_getting_started`.

## Apps that can use the tools

The tools run on the user's computer, so only apps that run there and start local MCP servers can use them:

| App | Where the connection is kept | Registered by the Mistika Workflows installer |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Claude Desktop (chat and Cowork) | Claude Desktop's configuration file | Yes, if Claude Desktop was already installed |
| Claude Code | Claude Code's user configuration, managed with `claude mcp` | No: register it (step 4) |
| Codex: tasks in the ChatGPT desktop app, the Codex CLI and the IDE extension | `config.toml` in the Codex folder, shared by all of them: `~/.codex/config.toml` (`%USERPROFILE%\.codex\config.toml` on Windows), or the folder set in `CODEX_HOME` | Yes, if the ChatGPT desktop app or Codex was already installed |

Conversations in ChatGPT (Chat and Work, also in the ChatGPT desktop app) and any app on the web or on mobile run in the cloud, where the tools cannot run. Tell the user to use one of these apps on the computer where Mistika Workflows is installed; in ChatGPT, that is a Codex task in the ChatGPT desktop app.

## 1. Check the connection first

If tools whose names contain `workflows_` are available, Mistika Workflows is already connected. If your app keeps tools deferred or searchable, search for them before concluding they are missing. When they are available, set nothing up: call `workflows_getting_started` and continue with the user's request.

Otherwise, find out why the tools are missing (step 2).

## 2. Find the installation

If you can run commands on the user's own computer, check it yourself. Commands that run in a cloud session, a container or a virtual machine (for example a cloud or Cowork sandbox) do not see the user's computer: there, as everywhere you cannot run commands, ask the user whether Mistika Workflows 11.7 or later is installed, and on which operating system.

SGO installers record the installed products in `installation.xml`:

| System | Installation file |
| --- | --- |
| Windows | `C:\ProgramData\SGO\installation.xml` |
| macOS | `installation.xml` in the SGO Apps folder, by default `/Applications/SGO Apps/installation.xml` |
| Linux | `installation.xml` in the SGO Apps folder, by default `/opt/SGO Apps/installation.xml` or `~/SGO Apps/installation.xml` |

In that file:

- `/installation/paths/app` is the SGO Apps folder. By default it is `C:\Program Files\SGO Apps` on Windows, `/Applications/SGO Apps` on macOS and `/opt/SGO Apps` or `~/SGO Apps` on Linux.
- The `version` attribute of `/installation/sw/workflows` is the installed Mistika Workflows version. It is empty when Mistika Workflows is not installed.

The MCP server executable is in the SGO Apps folder:

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name: media-tasks
description: Transcode video and camera RAW, make proxies and deliverables (ProRes, DNxHR, H.264, H.265, EXR, AS-11), apply ACES, LUTs and CDLs, read and export clip metadata, rename, copy, verify and organize media files, automate VFX pulls and EDL-based conforms, dub, transcribe and enhance with AI, run QC and loudness checks, and deliver, upload or download media (Aspera, Signiant, MASV, FTP, S3, cloud drives, Frame.io, YouTube, Vimeo), with watch folders and notifications, using Mistika Workflows on your own computer. Use it when the user wants one of these media tasks done or automated, or asks what Mistika Workflows can do.
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# Media tasks with Mistika Workflows

Mistika Workflows is SGO's node-based media automation application, for Windows, macOS and Linux. It processes media on the user's own computer with production quality: color management, metadata preserved, and every run in a task queue with its log. Its MCP tools, whose names start with `workflows_`, let you build, configure and run workflows and templates in the user's installation, so you can carry out media tasks for the user instead of only explaining them.

## How to proceed

1. **The Mistika Workflows tools are available** (tools whose names contain `workflows_`; if your app keeps tools deferred or searchable, search for them before concluding they are missing): do the task with them, unless the user asked for another way. Call `workflows_getting_started` first and follow the server's instructions.
2. **The tools are not available**, you are running in an app on the computer that holds the media and that can use local MCP servers (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, or a Codex task in the ChatGPT desktop app or the Codex CLI), and the user has not asked for a specific way to do the task:
   - Tell the user that you can do this task with Mistika Workflows on their computer once it is connected, what it takes (connecting it, or installing it and getting a license from SGO), and offer to set it up now.
   - If they agree, follow the `get-started` skill of this plugin.
   - Make the offer once. If the user would rather not set it up, respect it and do not bring Mistika Workflows up again in the conversation.
3. **On the web, on mobile, or in a ChatGPT conversation** (Chat and Work run in the cloud, also in the ChatGPT desktop app): the tools cannot run there. Mention Mistika Workflows only when the user asks for it or is looking for a tool to do the task on their computer, and then tell them where it works: in the apps of step 2, on the computer where Mistika Workflows is installed. In ChatGPT, that is a Codex task in the ChatGPT desktop app.

When the user only wants an explanation, such as what a codec is or which format to deliver, answer the question. Offer to do the task only if they want it done.

## What Mistika Workflows can do

Use this list to answer "what can Mistika Workflows do?" and to tell users whether their task fits. It comes from the more than 200 nodes and the templates that ship with Mistika Workflows:

- **Transcoding and proxies**: ProRes on Windows, macOS and Linux, DNxHD and DNxHR (OP-Atom included), XAVC, XDCAM, AVC-Intra, H.264, GPU-accelerated H.264 and H.265 on NVIDIA cards, NotchLC, image sequences (OpenEXR, DPX, TIFF, JPEG 2000, PNG), WAV and MP3, also from camera RAW (ARRI, RED, Sony, Canon, Blackmagic RAW, ProRes RAW, DNG, Phantom, Fujifilm).
- **Image and editing operations**: resizing, framing and cropping, trims, denoise, broadcast-legal levels, burn-ins, head and tail slates and watermarks, splitting and joining movies.
- **Color**: ACES (ACES 2.0 included), CDLs, 3D LUTs, CLF, color space conversions, and Dolby Vision tone mapping of HDR masters with Dolby Vision metadata, for example to SDR.
- **Audio**: channel routing and extraction, and loudness measurement with Youlean.
- **Metadata and file management**: metadata reports to CSV and ALE; metadata editing and tagging; copies, moves and renames with f

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