Connect Descript to Claude, ChatGPT, or whatever AI assistant you use. Describe the edit and Underlord makes it. You only open Descript when there's something worth looking at.
Rather write the code yourself? The API docs have auth, endpoints, and examples.
No app to install or server to configure. You just sign in with your Descript account.
Connect the MCP
In Claude, ChatGPT, or your MCP client, add Descript as a connector. You'll be prompted to sign in to Descript. That's it.
Ask for what you need
Ask in plain words: "cut five clips from this webinar." Your assistant runs the edit in Descript.
Open Descript if you want to
Every edit lands in a project in your drive. Open it to fix whatever the AI got wrong. If it goes quiet, ask what it made.
Things people ask it to do
Real people, sitting in rooms like you are right now, are asking Descript to help them. Some of these people may have as many half empty iced coffees on their desk as you do.
You don't have to imagine what to do. Pick one of these and get on your way.

Import a recording and it gets transcribed on the way in. Then ask what's in it, where the good parts are, or what someone said about pricing. Your recordings become as searchable as your docs, and nobody has to sit through the entire 4-hour business review.

Import a recording and it gets transcribed on the way in. Then ask what's in it, where the good parts are, or what someone said about pricing. Your recordings become as searchable as your docs, and nobody has to sit through the entire 4-hour business review.
Setup is the same everywhere: add Descript, sign in, and start asking.
Descript is in the ChatGPT app directory. Connect it once and it's there in every conversation.
Add Descript from the Claude connector directory and sign in. Work in the desktop app, on the web, or in Claude Code.
Use Cursor, your own agent, something no one has heard of? If it speaks MCP, it can drive Descript.
When you'd rather write the code and handle the errors yourself, access the same capabilities over HTTP or from your terminal.
MCP (Model Context Protocol) is how an AI assistant reaches a tool it doesn't own. Descript's MCP lets Claude or ChatGPT run edits in your drive when you ask. Everyone had to ask what it meant at some point.

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At this point, you should just try Descript. It’ll be connected in less time than it took you to read this page.
It lets an AI assistant like Claude or ChatGPT use Descript for you. You import media, run edits, pull transcripts, and publish by asking, in the same conversation where you're doing everything else.
No. Add Descript as a connector in your assistant and sign in with your Descript account. Your assistant only sees one drive.
No. If you can add a connector in Claude or ChatGPT, that's the hard part done. The API and CLI are there if you want them, but nothing here requires code.
There's no separate charge for the MCP. Using AI costs AI credits, the same as it does inside the app, and those come from the plan you're already on. Automated editing tends to get through credits faster than editing by hand, so keep an eye on it if you're running real volume.
Claude and ChatGPT both list Descript in their directories. Anything else that speaks MCP works too, including Claude Code, Cursor, and agents you build yourself.
The big one is media export. You can publish a composition, which gives you a share link and a download URL, but nothing hands you an MP4 on request. It also can't import from YouTube links, so use a direct file URL or upload. Transcripts and timelines do export directly. The known limitations page tracks the rest, and it changes often enough to be worth checking before you build something that leans on one endpoint.
Your projects stay in your drive, and your assistant can only reach that drive. The specifics on data handling, retention, and model training are in the privacy policy.
Ask it a question about a recording instead of asking it to edit one. "Summarize this and tell me where the good moments are." It's quick, it barely costs anything, and it tells you the connection is working before you hand over a real edit. If it goes quiet, ask what it made.