Claude Descript connectorWhat Claude can do in your Descript account.
The Claude Descript connector exposes 5 tools. 2 read the status of your jobs, 2 change your Drive (importing media, cancelling a job) and 1 is described by no source. Below: what Claude can start, what it tracks, which settings it needs, and what stays in the app.
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What changes when Claude can work in your Descript Drive
You describe the result you want in a sentence and Claude hands the work to Descript: bring a recording into a project, then follow the job until it is done. Descript's help pages say the connector can also edit with Underlord, its built-in AI editor, manage projects and publish to a web link; none of those pages names the tool that does it.
Get a recording into the right project. An interview sits in a shared folder. import_media brings it into your Drive, where Descript transcribes it. Descript notes that YouTube links are refused as an import source.
Know where a long job stands. Imports, edits and publishing run as background jobs. get_job checks one of them, list_jobs shows the recent ones, so you are not refreshing the app to see if the episode is ready.
Stop a job you launched by mistake. Wrong file, wrong project: cancel_job halts it before it eats more of your quota.
What it will not do: hand you a finished MP4 without publishing it first, export a transcript as DOCX, or reach a Drive other than the one you connected. Descript says the directory version has no generative image or video tools. And nothing starts on its own; Claude calls these tools while it answers. For another connector that edits content in a work account, see the Claude airtable connector page.
The vocabulary in one minute
Five words you will meet while connecting Descript.
- Connector
- The link you set up once between Claude and an account you already own, so Claude can work in it while it answers you.
- Tool
- One named thing a connector lets Claude do. Claude chooses the ones it needs by itself; the directory sheet lists them by name.
- Authorization
- The sign-in screen of Descript itself, where you hand Claude the access it will use. Granted once per person, and reversible.
- Approval
- The confirmation Claude waits for before it goes ahead with a change to your account, shown in the chat when it matters.
- MCP
- The shared standard connectors are built on, which is what lets an assistant like Claude talk to an outside service such as Descript.
Connect Descript to Claude in three steps
- 01
Find Descript in the connector list
Open Claude's settings, go to Customize, then Connectors, and find Descript. On a Team or Enterprise workspace, an Owner or Primary Owner has to enable the connector before each member can sign in.
- 02
Start the connection
Click Connect on its row, then sign in to Descript in the window Descript opens. Descript scopes the connection to a single Drive, the one you choose, so pick it with care.
- 03
Review the authorization screen
Read Descript's screen before you allow access. It belongs to Descript, not to Claude, and it decides what the access covers. If the link breaks later, Disconnect and connect again.
The 5 tools, sorted by what they do
Descript gives Claude 5 tools: 2 that read your account, 2 that change something in it, and 1 no official source describes.
Three groups: what Claude reads, what it changes, and the one tool no official source describes. Names stay as Claude shows them.
- 2 read
- 2 write
- 1 not documented
What Claude reads (2)
2 toolsTwo tools that report on your jobs without changing anything.
get_job
Reports the state of a single job, whatever kind it is, so Claude can tell you if it is still running or finished.
list_jobs
Shows the jobs recently run on your Drive, so you get an overview instead of chasing IDs one at a time.
What Claude changes (2)
2 toolsTwo tools that act on your Drive. No source gives them a confirmation of their own; the general rule below applies.
import_media
Approval: see the ruleBrings a video or audio file into Descript, on the Drive you connected, ready for transcription.
cancel_job
Approval: see the ruleStops a job that is still running on your Drive. Useful when the wrong file or the wrong project was picked.
Undocumented (1)
1 toolThe directory publishes this name and nothing more. No official text ties it to a described capability, and we will not guess from its name.
prompt_project_agent
No official source names this tool or describes what it does: Descript's pages list capabilities without tying them to tool names, and the directory only publishes the name.
What Claude asks before it acts
By default, Claude stops and asks before any action it takes on your behalf. The request shows up in the chat, at the moment it matters.
On a Team or Enterprise workspace, owners decide whether members can let some actions through without a prompt each time. They can also limit what a connector may do for the whole organization, keeping reading open and closing changes, and nobody overrides that from their own account. Claude works with your Descript access and nothing more: it only sees the one Drive you connected. A project you cannot open in Descript stays closed to Claude too.
Which plans include it
None of the 819 sheets in the official directory shows availability by plan. That answer, connector by connector, is not published anywhere; it is a real gap in the catalogue.
The general rule is published: remote connectors are open to all users on Claude, Cowork, Claude Desktop and mobile. On Team and Enterprise, an Owner or Primary Owner enables a connector for the organization before members connect. The current status sits on the Descript sheet in the official directory. Everything specific here comes from Descript alone: Anthropic has no page on this connector.
Where this connector stops
A connector is not an automation. Claude calls these tools while it answers you; nothing starts on its own when a new recording lands in a folder.
The tool list is an observed floor, not a promise: an administrator can open actions that appear on no public sheet. The partner badge is not a security audit, and Anthropic says so on every sheet: it does not pick a publisher's tools or guarantee how they behave. Descript also recommends Chat mode rather than Cowork. Everything specific on this page comes from Descript itself, since Anthropic has no page on this connector. Other connector pages are in the Integrations hub.
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