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Claude Riverside connectorWhat Claude can do in your Riverside account.
The Claude Riverside connector exposes 59 tools. 31 read your recordings, transcripts and edits, 22 change an edit or publish, and 6 are described nowhere. Here is what Claude finds, edits and posts for you, and where it stops.
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What the Claude Riverside connector changes for your show
Riverside is where you record and edit podcasts and videos. Once connected, Claude reads your transcripts and archive, finds a moment, edits along your instructions and publishes to your social accounts. It does not replace the studio, though: recording itself stays in Riverside.
Find a moment in the archive. search_riverside searches by topic, search_recording_transcripts_exact by exact phrase, and platform_get_transcript gives you the full text with a timestamp per sentence.
Clean up an episode. editing_remove_fillers strips the ums, editing_remove_pauses tightens silences, editing_set_captions adjusts captions and editing_apply_brand adds your branding in one pass.
Publish without switching tabs. social_upload_create posts or schedules a clip on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn or X.
What Claude does not do: it cannot start or join a recording, book a session, manage podcast hosting or motion graphics, which all stay in Riverside. Six tools on the sheet have no description. Nothing runs on its own either: no clip goes out when a recording ends unless you ask. For that, you need an automation platform, a different job; the Integrations hub covers that side.
The vocabulary in one minute
Five words that make the rest of this page easier.
- Connector
- The link you set up once between Claude and your Riverside account, so Claude can work in it while answering you.
- Tool
- One named action the connector opens to Claude. Claude decides which to call; the directory sheet lists them by name.
- Authorization
- Riverside's sign-in screen, where you grant Claude the access it will use. Given once per person, and revocable the same way.
- Approval
- The confirmation Claude waits for before carrying out something that changes your account, shown in the chat.
- MCP
- The common standard connectors are built on; it lets an assistant talk to an outside service.
Connect Riverside to Claude in three steps
- 01
Find Riverside in Claude
In Claude's settings, open Customize then Connectors and look for Riverside. On a Team or Enterprise plan, an Owner or Primary Owner has to enable it for the organization first.
- 02
Start the connection
Click Connect on Riverside's row, then sign in through the window Riverside opens itself. If the link breaks later, use Disconnect and reconnect from the same row.
- 03
Approve the authorization
Read the authorization screen before accepting: it belongs to Riverside, and it decides what the access covers. You can withdraw that access later from your Riverside account.
All 59 tools, grouped by effect
Riverside gives Claude 59 tools: 31 that read your account, 22 that change something in it, and 6 no official source describes.
Three groups: what Claude reads, what it changes or publishes, and what no source describes. Tool names stay exactly as Claude shows them.
- 31 read
- 22 write
- 6 not documented
Tools index
- editing_compare_revisions
- editing_get_asset_metadata
- editing_get_brand
- editing_get_captions_presets
- editing_get_editing_guide
- editing_get_export_publish_data
- editing_get_layout
- editing_get_revision
- editing_get_stock_media
- editing_get_stock_music
- editing_list_edit_recording_asset_sessions
- editing_list_layouts
- editing_read_aligned_transcript
- editing_read_timeline_in_range
- editing_resolve_transcript_selection
- editing_validate_edit_plan
- platform_get_edit
- platform_get_production
- platform_get_project
- platform_get_recording
- platform_get_studio
- platform_get_transcript
- platform_list_edits
- platform_list_productions
- platform_list_projects
- platform_list_recordings
- platform_list_studios
- search_recording_transcripts_exact
- search_riverside
- social_get_connected_platforms
- social_get_publishing_guidelines
- editing_add_lower_third
- editing_add_text_overlay
- editing_apply_brand
- editing_apply_smart_layout
- editing_apply_smart_mutes
- editing_apply_verified_edit_plan
- editing_batch
- editing_clone_edit
- editing_create_edit_from_recording
- editing_cut_time_ranges
- editing_insert_audio
- editing_insert_media_as_scene
- editing_insert_overlay
- editing_insert_stock_media
- editing_remove_fillers
- editing_remove_pauses
- editing_restore_audio_cleanup
- editing_set_brand
- editing_set_captions
- editing_set_magic_audio
- editing_set_visual_crop
- social_upload_create
What Claude reads (31)
31 toolsThirty-one tools that look at your archive, edits, brand and networks without changing anything.
editing_compare_revisions
Shows what changed between two revisions of a cut, so Claude can tell you what a round of tweaks altered and what stayed as it was.
editing_get_asset_metadata
Returns the name, type, duration and resolution of a media file. It is the read that fixes an item's duration before it gets placed; a still image reports none.
editing_get_brand
Fetches the studio's brand kit, optionally narrowed to one production. Riverside describes it as a read-only fetch.
editing_get_captions_presets
Lists the caption styles already saved in the studio. Riverside asks Claude to pick from them rather than inventing a style from scratch.
editing_get_editing_guide
Provides the parameters, accepted values and defaults of the post-production tools, according to Riverside's plugin, alongside the live tool schemas.
editing_get_export_publish_data
Surfaces Content-ID and copyright signals for a cut's media ahead of a YouTube upload. Riverside asks Claude to report a flagged match rather than publish over it.
editing_get_layout
Opens one specific layout template. Riverside warns that this read returns a large technical blob, and that the list summary is usually enough to choose between templates.
editing_get_revision
A cheap freshness check: returns the current revision of a cut, and nothing else.
editing_get_stock_media
Searches images and videos in the built-in stock library. Riverside's flow is to search, let you choose one, then place your pick with another tool.
editing_get_stock_music
Browses the free built-in music library, organised by collection and section. Variant names encode intensity and length, which helps you choose without listening to every track in full.
editing_list_edit_recording_asset_sessions
Finds the recording sessions behind a cut's clips, the bridge back to the transcript and the discovery tools.
editing_list_layouts
Lists the available layout templates, with a summary that is usually enough to pick one. Only layouts carrying a text description show up.
editing_read_aligned_transcript
Gives what is said, lined up with the cut's timeline. Claude then knows where each sentence falls, so it can cut or insert at the right spot.
editing_read_timeline_in_range
The reference read of what actually exists in a cut: tracks, clips, scenes, layouts and keyframes over a time window, the read every precise operation starts from.
editing_resolve_transcript_selection
Turns markers taken from the transcript into safe ranges, packaged and ready to run. Riverside states it never alters the cut and that it requires an intent.
editing_validate_edit_plan
Checks a plan of operations ahead of time against the same cut and revision, then returns a hash to hand to the batch tool.
platform_get_edit
Opens one cut, names the recording it came from and gives its Riverside link, which you use to export or download it yourself in the editor.
platform_get_production
Returns one production with its studios. It is a starting point for browsing your workspace when you do not yet know where something lives.
platform_get_project
Returns a project's recordings and cuts in a single call. Riverside prefers it over the two separate lists, which take more effort to reach the same result.
platform_get_recording
Opens one recording. According to Riverside, the preview link, which carries an access token, is only included in the answer when it is explicitly asked for.
platform_get_studio
Returns one studio with its parent production. You start from the studio and work back up to the show, the reverse of reading a production, without listing its projects.
platform_get_transcript
Gives the dialogue of a recording as prose, with one timestamp per sentence. Riverside notes those timestamps are relative to the recording session.
platform_list_edits
Lists the cuts within a project, not across a whole studio. Riverside notes the list can include cuts flagged as deleted.
platform_list_productions
Lists your productions, the top level of your workspace. Riverside notes that no tool identifies the signed-in user, so Claude starts from a search or from these lists.
platform_list_projects
Lists projects, optionally narrowed to one studio, so you can pick one.
platform_list_recordings
Lists recordings page by page; Riverside's plugin pages through the list to collect every recording made on a given local date.
platform_list_studios
Lists studios, optionally narrowed to one production, so you can pick a studio. With the productions list, it is one of the starting points Riverside gives, since no tool identifies the signed-in user.
search_recording_transcripts_exact
Looks for exact terms in recording transcripts. It is the most precise search, terms are matched verbatim, and it only covers recordings, not projects or clips.
search_riverside
Finds content when you know the topic or title but not the exact words. It searches what is said in takes; projects and clips are matched on their titles only.
social_get_connected_platforms
Shows the social platforms and accounts linked to a studio, with each account's current options and limits. That is where Claude sees which networks are actually available.
social_get_publishing_guidelines
Gives each platform's current rules: metadata, media constraints, workflow and error recovery.
What Claude changes or publishes (22)
22 toolsTwenty-two tools that alter an edit or your brand kit, or post to a network. No source gives them a confirmation of the connector's own.
editing_add_lower_third
Approval: see the rulePlaces a name strip for a person, with an optional role, at the start time and for the duration given.
editing_add_text_overlay
Approval: see the rulePuts text in the video using built-in roles (title, subtitle, body, speaker) rather than free styling.
editing_apply_brand
Approval: see the ruleApplies the studio's brand kit to an edit's timeline in one go. That is what Riverside means by branding a video.
editing_apply_smart_layout
Approval: see the ruleGenerates scenes and layouts from who is speaking. Its fine-tuning options only apply to that automatic style.
editing_apply_smart_mutes
Approval: see the ruleMutes non-speaking segments instead of removing them, so the running time stays the same.
editing_apply_verified_edit_plan
Approval: see the ruleValidates, applies and verifies a complex edit plan in a single pass. It requires the expected revision and rejects a stale plan without changing anything.
editing_batch
Approval: see the ruleThe low-level tool for grouped, atomic changes, or for operations with no dedicated tool, such as switching layout or adjusting a crop. Riverside advises using the specialised tools first.
editing_clone_edit
Approval: see the ruleCreates a second version of an edit so the original stays untouched, when you explicitly ask for one.
editing_create_edit_from_recording
Approval: see the ruleStarts a new edit from a raw recording, keeping the title you give it.
editing_cut_time_ranges
Approval: see the ruleRemoves the ranges you name across all recording tracks. It is the "take this out" tool, including for a selection made in the transcript.
editing_insert_audio
Approval: see the rulePlaces an audio file (music, sound effect, voice-over) with its own level and fades.
editing_insert_media_as_scene
Approval: see the ruleInserts an image or video as a new full-screen scene: the timeline gets longer and everything after it shifts right.
editing_insert_overlay
Approval: see the ruleLays an image or video on top of existing content without changing the duration. Riverside requires an explicit duration.
editing_insert_stock_media
Approval: see the ruleImports the image or video chosen from the library and places it as an overlay.
editing_remove_fillers
Approval: see the ruleRemoves the regions the transcript flagged as disfluencies: ums, noises, false starts.
editing_remove_pauses
Approval: see the ruleCuts silences longer than the threshold you set. Riverside advises agreeing on the threshold with you: too low and speech sounds clipped.
editing_restore_audio_cleanup
Approval: see the ruleUndoes one specific clean-up pass that you name. It is not a general undo, and manual cuts stay in place.
editing_set_brand
Approval: see the ruleEdits the brand kit itself, in small patches. No edit is touched, but every future application changes for the whole studio.
editing_set_captions
Approval: see the ruleAdjusts captions by merging: any field you leave out keeps its value, down to the style settings.
editing_set_magic_audio
Approval: see the ruleTurns Riverside's enhanced audio on or off for a recording track, with an optional mix level.
editing_set_visual_crop
Approval: see the ruleApplies a fixed crop to a clip or track, framed from its first visible frame. A crop that changes over time goes through the batch tool.
social_upload_create
Approval: see the rulePublishes or schedules a clip to one platform: YouTube, YouTube Shorts, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn or X. Riverside calls it destructive, since it can create a real post.
Undocumented (6)
6 toolsThe directory publishes these six names and nothing else. No official text says what they do, and we will not guess from the names.
editing_set_color_correction
This name is on the directory sheet, and that is all. No official source documents it: not the Riverside pages reviewed, not Anthropic's, not the publisher's plugin. This page will not say more.
media_create_media_upload
Listed by the directory, it is documented by no official source consulted, at Riverside or at Anthropic, so there is nothing to say about what it does.
media_finalize_media_upload
One more name on the sheet, with no sentence from the publisher to explain it. No official source documents it, and Riverside's plugin never mentions it.
media_get_media
No official source documents it: Riverside published no line about this tool in the pages reviewed, its plugin included, and the directory sheet gives only the name.
platform_get_export
The sheet lists it, but no official source documents it: neither Riverside nor Anthropic says what it does or what it returns, not even the publisher's plugin or help article.
platform_list_exports
It appears on the directory sheet, yet no official source documents it, neither the plugin nor Riverside's help article, so this page stops at its name and goes no further.
What Claude asks before it acts
By default, Claude stops and asks for your go-ahead before each action it takes on an account for you, inside the conversation.
On Team and Enterprise, owners decide whether members can let some actions through without being asked every time, and they can cap what a connector does for the whole organization. Riverside adds its own instructions in its plugin, an add-on installed next to the connector: before any post, Claude has to show you the exact metadata and wait for your go-ahead, and a retry needs a fresh confirmation.
Which plans include the connector
None of the 819 sheets in the official directory shows availability by plan; connector by connector, the information is not published anywhere.
Anthropic's general rule is documented: remote connectors are open to all users on Claude, Cowork, Claude Desktop and mobile, and on Team and Enterprise an Owner or Primary Owner enables the connector before members connect. Riverside's help article adds a plan-related note, set side by side in the limits section. For the current state, check Riverside's sheet in the directory.
Where the Riverside connector stops
A connector is not an automation: Claude calls these tools while it answers you, and no clip goes out on its own.
Claude works on what has already been recorded, and it acts with your Riverside account and role, nothing more. The sheet lists six tools no Riverside page describes, and the plugin describes a publish-status tool that is not on the sheet; the sheet is what tells you what Claude actually has. This connector is documented by Riverside alone, and the directory badge is not a security audit: Anthropic does not vouch for how a publisher's tools behave.
Which plans let Claude use this connector?
- Claude Help Center, general connector rule ↗September 2026Remote connectors are open to all users; on Team and Enterprise, an Owner first enables the connector for the organization.
- Riverside help article ↗10 September 2026The publisher says that on the Free Claude plan you can only add one custom connector, and that on Team or Enterprise the organization's admin must add the connector first.
What this page followsThe two texts do not clash on whether the connector is open: Anthropic gives the general rule, Riverside adds a limit on custom connectors and an admin step. Neither is out of date, but it is the publisher speaking: check the directory sheet from your own account.
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