Cove Sensory MCP: Give Text-Only LLMs Eyes and Ears Locally
Cove Sensory MCP is a local stdio MCP server that hands text-only LLMs like Claude Code and Codex their missing senses: image, video, audio, and music understanding. It routes media files through configurable multimodal providers—Gemini, MiniMax-M3, or OpenAI-compatible endpoints—while keeping everything on-device and privacy-first. Rather than a full assistant, it is a composable sensory layer you bolt onto your existing agent. H2: What Is Cove Sensory MCP and Why a “Sensory Layer”? Cove Sensory MCP is a Model Context Protocol server that deliberately limits itself to a single job: giving text-only language models the ability to perceive media files. The concept comes from Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol, a universal open standard that lets AI applications connect to external tools and context. Instead of trying to build chat, memory, personality, playback, monitoring, or call policies, Cove’s creators carved out one focused capability—sensing—and made it reusable across agents. ...