Descript
by Descript
Import media into Descript, edit it with the Underlord agent, and publish a shareable video link from an AI assistant. Anthropic lists 5 tools; Descript publishes no tool list of its own. OAuth sign-in, identity-only scopes.
Verified connector
Listed by Anthropic as a partner connector in its Connectors Directory.
Connection checked by Agentman on .
Anthropic states this reflects the level of review a connector received, not a security audit.
Connect Descript via MCP
https://api.descript.com/v2/mcp/claudeWorks in any MCP-compatible client. In Agentman Studio it is one click — no config file to edit.
Descript Tools & Capabilities (5)
Tool names from Anthropic's directory listing. This server requires sign-in, so we could not read tool descriptions or parameter schemas.
Limits
- No application scopes exist. Descript's authorization server advertises five scopes —
openid,profile,email,phoneandoffline_access— all identity or session claims, and the RFC 9728 resource descriptor declares noscopes_supportedat all. Nothing at the OAuth grant separates reading a job list from running an edit or a publish. The one real boundary is drive scope, and it sits well outside the routine write. - Descript publishes no tool list for this server. The five names come from Anthropic's directory and appear nowhere in Descript's help centre or OpenAPI specification.
- We could not read tool schemas or safety annotations. The endpoint returned 401 to an anonymous request, so no parameter-level detail is published here.
- One tool's behaviour is unbounded by its schema.
prompt_project_agentforwards free text to Underlord, so what it does is decided by a model, not by a tool definition. - No local export. Descript states that exporting a file directly without publishing "is not yet supported", and that getting a file out means publishing to a web link and using the returned signed URL. Getting a finished video out of Descript through this connector requires creating a share page.
- YouTube URLs are rejected as import sources, per Descript's known-limitations list.
- Job history lasts 30 days. After that, Descript states job records are no longer accessible.
- Single-drive scope. Editing a project on any other drive returns an error, and switching drives requires logging out of Descript on the web and reconnecting.
- The directory connector cannot generate media. Descript directs users needing generation to the manual custom-connector setup instead.
- Publishing may be unreliable in some clients. Descript's environment table notes that in ChatGPT, tool calls "like publish" may not always work perfectly and the assistant "can occasionally call the wrong tool or misinterpret the request".
- Usage is metered and non-deterministic. Imports spend media minutes, Underlord edits spend AI credits, neither rolls over month to month, and an insufficient balance returns 402.
- Rate limits apply, surfaced as HTTP 429 with
Retry-After,X-RateLimit-RemainingandX-RateLimit-Consumedheaders. - A third-party
descript-mcppackage exists on npm and is not Descript's. Do not treat it as a vendor enumeration of this server.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Descript documents publishing to a share page as something the MCP can do, and its API defines an access_level field whose public value produces a page Descript says can appear in search engines. The connector reaches that path through a single prompt tool rather than a tool named publish, so the outbound step is not visible in the tool name.
Anthropic lists five, and Descript publishes no list to check that against. The five names are import_media, prompt_project_agent, get_job, list_jobs and cancel_job. Descript's own OpenAPI specification defines thirteen operations including publish and transcript export, so the connector reaches far more capability than five names suggest.
Yes, and that is the point of the product. Descript transcribes every imported file automatically, and Underlord edits the transcript as text. Its API also defines a transcript export operation with speaker labels and timecodes. Any recorded voice in a project becomes readable text an agent can act on.
None that separate reading from publishing. Descript's authorization server advertised five scopes on 2026-08-22 and all are identity or session claims: openid, profile, email, phone and offline_access. The RFC 9728 resource descriptor declares no scopes_supported at all, so consent cannot grant listing jobs without also granting edits.
The Claude desktop app and two capability settings. Descript states that connecting requires the desktop app, and that network egress and code execution must be turned on under Settings then Capabilities. No API token is needed. If those settings are unavailable, Descript says to ask your Claude administrator to enable them.
It spends the allowances your plan already includes. Descript warns on every MCP page that imports consume media minutes and Underlord edits consume AI credits. Descript also states Underlord is non-deterministic, so the same prompt can cost different amounts on different runs, and an insufficient balance returns a 402 error.
Descript gates it to the custom setup. Its documentation states plainly that the directory connector does not support media generation and directs users needing it to add the server URL manually. Both endpoints answer an anonymous request identically, so the capability difference is a server-side policy rather than anything visible over the wire.
Not through any listed tool. The only destructive verb among the five names is cancel_job, which stops a running import or edit rather than removing content. Descript's API defines no project deletion operation. Unpublishing a share page is documented as an in-app action, and Descript warns it permanently deletes that page's comments.
Sources
- Descript help centre, "Connect Descript to Claude" (retrieved 2026-08-22). The URL Anthropic's directory publishes,
help.descript.com/hc/en-us/articles/45008080343053-Connect-Descript-to-Claude, is a 308 redirect to this page. · retrieved 2026-08-22 - Descript help centre, "Descript MCP overview" (retrieved 2026-08-22) · retrieved 2026-08-22
- Descript help centre, "Connect Descript to any AI assistant (custom MCP)" (retrieved 2026-08-22) · retrieved 2026-08-22
- Descript help centre, "Descript API" (retrieved 2026-08-22) · retrieved 2026-08-22
- Descript help centre, "Export and publish content with Descript web links" (retrieved 2026-08-22) · retrieved 2026-08-22
- Descript help centre, "View, share, and manage a published share page" (retrieved 2026-08-22) · retrieved 2026-08-22
- Descript help centre, "Underlord (Beta): Your AI co-editor in Descript" (retrieved 2026-08-22) · retrieved 2026-08-22
- Descript help centre, "Create a custom voice clone" (retrieved 2026-08-22) · retrieved 2026-08-22
- Descript help centre, "Track and understand your media minutes and AI credits" (retrieved 2026-08-22) · retrieved 2026-08-22
- Descript help centre machine index (retrieved 2026-08-22). Its
robots.txtcarriesContent-Signal: ai-train=yes, search=yes, ai-input=yes, expressly permitting this synthesis. · retrieved 2026-08-22 - Descript API OpenAPI 3.0 specification, version 1.2 (retrieved 2026-08-22), linked from · retrieved 2026-08-22
- Live OAuth posture check: 401 with
WWW-Authenticateathttps://api.descript.com/v2/mcp/claude, RFC 9728 metadata athttps://api.descript.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource, and authorization server metadata athttps://api.descript.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server(2026-08-22) · retrieved 2026-08-22 - Anthropic Connectors Directory entry — , read from our directory snapshot dated 2026-08-16 · retrieved 2026-08-16
- Descript support — · Privacy
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