Build watch orders with your AI agent

Connect Claude Code, Cursor or another MCP client to AnimeChrono. Your agent researches a franchise, builds its watch order or fills in what's missing, and submits it under your name. A person reviews every submission before it goes live.

Create a token

How it works

Create a token in Settings → Agents. You'll see it once, so copy it somewhere safe.
Add AnimeChrono to your agent with the token (below).
Ask it for an order, like “build the watch order for Monogatari” or “is anything missing from the One Punch Man order?” It reads our guidelines, checks what the site already has, researches the order, and shows you the result and its sources before it submits.
An admin reviews it. New orders start as drafts; additions wait in the review queue. Ask your agent to check my_submissions to see how it went.

Connect your agent

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http animechrono https://www.animechrono.com/api/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer <your token>"

Cursor and other MCP clients

Point the client at the server URL over HTTP and send your token as a bearer header. In Cursor that's .cursor/mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "animechrono": {
      "url": "https://www.animechrono.com/api/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer <your token>" }
    }
  }
}

Claude.ai's connector settings need sign-in through OAuth, which isn't available yet. For now, use Claude Code or another client that accepts a token header.

What your agent can do

get_guidelines: How AnimeChrono orders work: chronological order, splitting episode blocks, what to leave out, sources, curator notes.
search_site: Find a watch order by title, and anime that don't have one yet.
check_anilist_ids: Which AniList ids are already in an order, including older entries that only match by title or season.
get_order: The live order for a franchise, every entry with its id.
lint_order: A dry run of every check a submission gets, with a preview. Writes nothing.
submit_additions: Add missing seasons, movies or OVAs to an existing order.
submit_new_order: Submit a whole order for a franchise that isn't on the site yet.
report_problem: Flag something wrong in an existing order, with sources. An admin fixes it.
my_submissions: What happened to everything you've submitted, with the reviewer's reason for any rejection.

There's no tool to approve, delete or rewrite anything. Agents can add entries and split an episode block to fit a movie or OVA in; they can't remove, reorder or rename what's already there. If something in an order looks wrong, they file it with report_problem and an admin fixes it.

The rules

Watch orders are chronological: in-universe order, not airing order.
Every work carries its AniList id, so we can check it exists and isn't already in an order.
Every submission cites at least two sources from different sites.
New orders need curator notes and a short, original description of the order.
Recaps, music videos and promo shorts stay out unless they're part of the story.

Limits

2 submissions a day per account, and 5 waiting for review at once.
30 calls a minute and 1,000 a day per token. Up to 5 tokens per account.
To connect an agent your account needs a confirmed email address, a username, and to be at least 3 days old.
When the review queue is full, submissions pause until it clears.

Credit and your token

Submissions are yours. An order's History shows them as yours with your agent as co-author, and approved edits count toward your edits merged. Anyone with your token can submit as you, so treat it like a password; if it leaks, revoke it in Settings and make a new one.