Runway ships API plugins for coding agents
Runway has released Runway Dev plugins for Claude Code, Codex and Cursor, letting coding agents read a developer's account and build generative-media features on its API without leaving the editor.
Runway announced plugins that connect Claude Code, OpenAI's Codex and Cursor to Runway Dev, its API platform for generative media. A single install connects the agent to the Runway Dev MCP server and adds Runway's "skills," which are instructions for building with the API.
Once connected, the agent reads the user's Runway Dev account. That covers the available projects, the models each project can use along with their prices and limits, and the credit balance. Runway says this lets the agent fit an integration to what a project can actually access. The skills show the agent how to use the official SDKs and which tool suits each job. From the editor, the agent can create a Model Router, which picks a model for each request, or a Character for real-time avatars. It can also build on Recipes, Runway's ready-made pipelines, or on Workflows that a team has published as API endpoints. When a task fails, the agent can look up the error details and see why a Model Router chose a particular model.
Users sign in with their Runway Dev account the first time the agent uses the plugin. Runway says the plugin stores no API key. Installation goes through each tool's plugin system: /plugin install runway-api@claude-plugins-official in Claude Code, the Codex plugin marketplace or ChatGPT's plugin directory, and /add-plugin runway-api or the Cursor Marketplace.
Runway's examples include a product video for every new catalog listing, an upscale button in an internal tool and a localization workflow that runs on new assets. The announcement gives no pricing changes or adoption figures.