Descript MCP

What it does

Descript's first-party remote MCP server hands an agent the transcript-based editor: import media from a URL or local file with automatic transcription, then drive Underlord to strip filler words, apply Studio Sound, generate captions, build scenes and highlight reels, or create a whole project from a prompt. It also finds and organizes projects and compositions and publishes to a shareable Descript link. The natural home for interview, doc and podcast-adjacent cutting, where the edit is really a text edit.

Connect

https://api.descript.com/v2/mcp

claude mcp add --transport http descript https://api.descript.com/v2/mcp

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "descript": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://api.descript.com/v2/mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "descript": {
      "url": "https://api.descript.com/v2/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Field notes

Re-verified 18 Sep 2026: the overview doc is unchanged and api.descript.com/v2/mcp answers 401 to an anonymous request, so the endpoint is live and auth-gated as listed. Official and hosted, so nothing to install, but the export story is still the catch: Descript documents no rendered media download without publishing — an agent can publish to a Descript web link or hand off a signed URL, and anything else you fetch by exporting from the app yourself. TRANSCRIPTS are the exception, and this run pinned down the formats: text, Markdown, HTML, RTF and SRT come back over MCP, DOCX does not. The docs also cover job tracking and cancellation, which matters because imports and Underlord runs are async. Other documented limits: YouTube URLs cannot be imported, job history is kept 30 days, one connection sees exactly one drive (switching drives means re-authenticating, and editing a project on another drive errors), and Claude's directory connector excludes the generative image/video tools. API and MCP access is included for paying subscribers at no extra cost but every import and Underlord edit burns your plan's media minutes and AI credits. Note the two auth stories: MCP is OAuth through your Descript login with no token, while the REST API uses drive-scoped tokens from Settings → API Tokens — descript.com/api blurs them together. Tool names are still not published, so this entry lists capabilities rather than inventing them.

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