Make your own Pickford story.

Connect StoryKernel to your agent

StoryKernel is Pickford’s story builder. Your coding agent talks to it over MCP, so you only connect it once.

Open the creation page in a browser for current installation availability and setup instructions.

Manage connected apps

Tell your agent to start

Start a new chat after connecting: the StoryKernel tools only appear in chats opened after the connection is made. Then say this in Codex or Claude. Your agent guides everything from here: it interviews you about your idea and builds your StoryBundle.

let's create a story with the StoryKernel MCP

Which agent model to use

• Best: GPT-5.6 Sol (medium or high thinking)
• Good: Claude Opus 5 (medium thinking)
• Tested: GPT-6 Astra (medium thinking), Claude Fable 5 / 5.1 (medium thinking)

Other models and thinking levels are untested. They may work; use them at your own discretion.

Watch your show

Pickford renders your story as video. Open it from My stories and press play — there is nothing to install and no key to supply.

• Pickford plays it for you

  Your finished show is listed in My stories. Open it and press Play as video — Pickford renders it. Capacity is limited while this is new, so if every renderer is busy you will be asked to try again in a few minutes.

• Or run the renderer yourself

  The video renderer is open source. Running your own needs Node.js 22 or newer, FFmpeg, Docker, and a fal.ai API key — entered on the renderer’s own page on your computer, never in chat, so it stays on your machine.