Claude Tella connectorWhat Claude can do in your Tella account.
The Claude Tella connector exposes 98 tools. 30 read your library, 66 edit or organise it (cuts, layouts, zooms, overlays, playlists, exports), and 2 are documented nowhere. Below: what Claude can see, what it changes, and where it stops.
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What it changes for people who record demos and tutorials
Instead of opening the Tella editor to trim a pause, move a camera bubble or add a zoom, you tell Claude what you want. It reads the video's timeline and transcript, then applies the edits through Tella's own tools. Most of the list changes your videos, so this connector is an editor, not just a viewer.
Clean a recording in one request. get_transcript shows what is said, cut_clip_by_transcript removes a sentence by pointing at its words, and remove_fillers strips the ums. For several changes at once, apply_video_edits bundles them into one revision.
Make a screen demo readable. generate_auto_zooms follows the mouse clicks, add_blur hides a customer's details, and add_text_overlay names the speaker.
Keep the library tidy. search_videos finds a recording by what was said in it, add_video_to_playlist files it, and export_video produces the file for a client.
What it will not do: nothing happens without a request. No tool reacts when a recording ends or a viewer watches. Two listed tools, get_clip_thumbnail and get_video_thumbnail, have no description anywhere. Tella's documentation also mentions social publishing and analytics tools that do not appear on the directory sheet, so this page leaves them out. For event-driven workflows, an automation tool does a different job; the Integrations hub covers that side.
The vocabulary in one minute
Five words you will meet while plugging Tella in.
- Connector
- The link you set up once between Claude and an account you already use, so Claude can work in it while it answers you.
- Tool
- One named action the connector hands to Claude. Claude picks the ones it needs; the directory sheet lists every tool by name.
- Authorization
- The service's own sign-in screen, where you grant Claude the access it will use. Given once per person, and revocable later.
- Approval
- The confirmation Claude waits for before completing something that changes your account, shown in the chat at the right moment.
- MCP
- The shared standard behind connectors; it is what lets an assistant like Claude talk to an outside service.
Plug Tella into Claude in three steps
- 01
Find Tella in Claude
In Claude's settings, open Customize, then Connectors, and look for Tella in the list. On a Team or Enterprise workspace, an Owner or Primary Owner enables the connector first, so each member can then sign in.
- 02
Start the connection
Click Connect on its row, then sign in to Tella in the window Tella opens itself. If the link stops working one day, use Disconnect and connect it again.
- 03
Read the authorization screen
Go through Tella's authorization screen before accepting. It is Tella's screen, not Claude's, and it sets what the access covers. You can withdraw that access later from your Tella account too.
The 98 tools, sorted by what they do
Tella gives Claude 98 tools: 30 that read your account, 66 that change something in it, and 2 no official source describes.
Three groups: what Claude reads, what it changes, and what no official source describes. Names stay as Claude shows them, in English.
- 30 read
- 66 write
- 2 not documented
Tools index
- get_captions_file
- get_chapters
- get_clip
- get_export_status
- get_mouse_events
- get_playlist
- get_silences
- get_source_thumbnail
- get_source_waveform
- get_timeline
- get_transcript
- get_video
- list_backgrounds
- list_blurs
- list_clips
- list_highlights
- list_layouts
- list_library
- list_overlays
- list_playlist_groups
- list_playlists
- list_sound_effects
- list_sources
- list_tags
- list_text_overlays
- list_video_tags
- list_videos
- list_webhooks
- list_zooms
- search_videos
- add_blur
- add_collaborator_to_video
- add_highlight
- add_layout
- add_library_item
- add_overlay
- add_sound_effect
- add_text_overlay
- add_video_tag
- add_video_to_playlist
- add_zoom
- apply_video_edits
- auto_crop
- create_playlist
- create_playlist_group
- create_source
- create_tag
- create_video
- cut_clip
- cut_clip_by_transcript
- delete_clip
- delete_playlist
- delete_playlist_group
- delete_tag
- delete_video
- duplicate_clip
- duplicate_video
- export_video
- generate_auto_layouts
- generate_auto_zooms
- move_playlist_to_group
- remove_background_music
- remove_blur
- remove_collaborator_from_video
- remove_fillers
- remove_highlight
- remove_layout
- remove_library_item
- remove_overlay
- remove_silences
- remove_sound_effect
- remove_text_overlay
- remove_video_from_playlist
- remove_video_tag
- remove_video_thumbnail
- remove_zoom
- reorder_clip
- set_background_music
- set_chapters
- set_video_thumbnail
- update_blur
- update_clip
- update_collaborator_on_video
- update_highlight
- update_layout
- update_overlay
- update_playlist
- update_playlist_group
- update_sound_effect
- update_tag
- update_text_overlay
- update_transcript_words
- update_video
- update_webhook
- update_zoom
- upload_clip
What Claude reads (30)
30 toolsThirty tools that consult videos, clips, transcripts, playlists and settings without changing anything.
get_captions_file
Hands back a video's finished captions as an SRT or WebVTT file with the file name and its text content.
get_chapters
Lists every chapter set on a video, in timestamp order, so Claude can show you how the recording is split and where each part starts.
get_clip
Returns the details of a single clip, one of the recorded segments a Tella video is built from.
get_export_status
Reports where an export stands and how far it has gone, and exposes the download link once the file is ready.
get_mouse_events
Reads the mouse movements and clicks recorded in a clip's screen capture. Clicks are always kept, pointer paths are sampled, and anything in cut-out footage is dropped.
get_playlist
Opens a playlist with its details. Outside your workspace, it only works for a playlist that has an ungated public link.
get_silences
Detects silent stretches in a clip's audio, measured on the playback timeline with cuts applied, ready to be passed to a cut.
get_source_thumbnail
Returns a still image of one source recording, or a link to a short animated preview, for a source on a clip or one not yet placed in a video.
get_source_waveform
Returns the waveform of a source recording's audio track, the visual shape of its volume over time, for a source on a clip or one not yet placed.
get_timeline
Gives an ordered outline of a video's full timeline in one call: every clip, its position and playback length, and counts of its cuts, layouts, effects and overlays. Tella calls it the place to start.
get_transcript
Returns the transcript of a clip as the viewer hears it, cuts applied, with stable word numbers that other tools point to.
get_video
Returns a video's information, with summary fields by default and more on request. It can also read a video outside your workspace if it has an ungated public link.
list_backgrounds
Lists the backgrounds you can apply to a clip, grouped in named categories, each with a preview image and a descriptive name.
list_blurs
Lists the blur masks placed on a clip, the areas hidden from view.
list_clips
Lists the clips of a video in the order they play, the building blocks the other tools refer to.
list_highlights
Lists the highlight masks on a clip, the areas drawn to the viewer's attention.
list_layouts
Lists the layouts on a clip, including the base one spanning the whole clip, with the portion of the screen recording each one shows.
list_library
Lists placeable media for one scope, Tella's curated library among them. Media still being generated is left out.
list_overlays
Lists the image and video overlays on a clip with their stacking position, from back to front.
list_playlist_groups
Lists the sidebar groups that organise playlists. Personal groups are yours alone; org groups are shared with the workspace.
list_playlists
Lists all the playlists in your workspace.
list_sound_effects
Lists the sound effects placed on a clip.
list_sources
Lists the recordings a clip was cut from (camera, screen, mic), each with its own volume setting and the volume that actually plays.
list_tags
Lists every tag you can see: the workspace's shared tags plus your private ones. It takes no parameters at all.
list_text_overlays
Lists the text overlays on a clip with their stacking position, from back to front.
list_video_tags
Lists the tags on one video that are visible to you, shared ones and your private ones.
list_videos
Returns every video in your workspace, page by page, as the starting inventory for most questions about your library.
list_webhooks
Lists your webhook subscriptions, meaning the addresses Tella notifies when something happens in your workspace, page by page.
list_zooms
Lists the zooms placed on a clip.
search_videos
Searches your video library by title or by what is said in the indexed transcript, and returns snippets with the matching words.
What Claude changes (66)
66 toolsSixty-six tools that edit, organise, upload, export or delete. No source describes a confirmation specific to any of them: the general rule below applies.
add_blur
Approval: see the rulePlaces a blur mask on a clip to hide part of the image.
add_collaborator_to_video
Approval: see the ruleAdds a collaborator to a video. The person must already be a member of your workspace.
add_highlight
Approval: see the rulePlaces a highlight mask on a clip to draw the eye to one area of the screen.
add_layout
Approval: see the ruleAdds a layout to a clip, over a time range or across the whole clip. With a range and a piece of media, it becomes b-roll (cutaway footage over the main recording).
add_library_item
Approval: see the ruleSaves an uploaded source into your library so it can be reused across videos. The file has to be uploaded first through create_source.
add_overlay
Approval: see the ruleAdds an image or video overlay on top of a clip, from a file uploaded beforehand.
add_sound_effect
Approval: see the ruleAdds a sound effect to a clip, from Tella's curated library or from your own audio file.
add_text_overlay
Approval: see the ruleAdds a text overlay on top of a clip, for a name, a title or a short caption.
add_video_tag
Approval: see the ruleTags a video. It needs edit access to the video; a private tag only affects your own library.
add_video_to_playlist
Approval: see the rulePuts a video into a playlist, next to the ones already there.
add_zoom
Approval: see the ruleAdds a zoom to a clip, enlarging one area of the screen for a moment.
apply_video_edits
Approval: see the ruleApplies up to 200 mixed timeline edits across the clips of one video in a single call, validated as a whole and saved as one editor revision.
auto_crop
Approval: see the ruleCrops a clip's screen recording automatically, based on what is visible at a chosen frame, and reports the crop applied and how confident it is.
create_playlist
Approval: see the ruleCreates a new playlist in your workspace.
create_playlist_group
Approval: see the ruleCreates a sidebar group to organise playlists into, personal or shared.
create_source
Approval: see the rulePrepares a new upload: Tella returns an identifier and a temporary address to send the file bytes to.
create_tag
Approval: see the ruleCreates a tag for sorting videos. Without a colour, Tella derives one from the name.
create_video
Approval: see the ruleTurns an uploaded video file into a new Tella video, which becomes its first clip.
cut_clip
Approval: see the ruleCuts one or several time ranges out of a clip in a single call; overlapping ranges merge with existing cuts.
cut_clip_by_transcript
Approval: see the ruleCuts ranges from a clip by pointing at word numbers in the transcript; Tella works out the exact timings.
delete_clip
Approval: see the ruleRemoves a clip from its video, taking that whole segment out of the edit.
delete_playlist
Approval: see the ruleDeletes a playlist from your workspace.
delete_playlist_group
Approval: see the ruleRemoves a sidebar group of playlists. The playlists inside are kept and simply become ungrouped in the sidebar.
delete_tag
Approval: see the rulePermanently deletes a tag and removes it from every video that carries it.
delete_video
Approval: see the ruleDeletes a video by moving it to the trash rather than erasing it outright.
duplicate_clip
Approval: see the ruleDuplicates a clip; the copy lands right after the original by default.
duplicate_video
Approval: see the ruleCopies a video, optionally keeping only a time range or one chapter, and returns the new copy's links.
export_video
Approval: see the ruleStarts a video export; the export is then followed with get_export_status until it completes.
generate_auto_layouts
Approval: see the ruleLets Tella's AI watch a clip and lay it out, like the editor's Auto layouts: it picks a style, sets the base layout and adds layout changes over time.
generate_auto_zooms
Approval: see the ruleBuilds tracking zooms from the mouse clicks in a clip's screen recording, like the editor's Generate zooms; nearby zooms are merged.
move_playlist_to_group
Approval: see the ruleMoves a playlist into a group, or out of it. Visibility has to match: shared playlists go into shared groups, personal ones into personal groups.
remove_background_music
Approval: see the ruleRemoves the background music track of a video, leaving the voices and effects in place.
remove_blur
Approval: see the ruleRemoves a blur from a clip, revealing the area it covered.
remove_collaborator_from_video
Approval: see the ruleRemoves a collaborator from a video, ending their access to that recording.
remove_fillers
Approval: see the ruleDetects filler words such as um and uh in a clip's transcript and cuts them out.
remove_highlight
Approval: see the ruleRemoves a highlight from a clip.
remove_layout
Approval: see the ruleRemoves a layout from a clip, except the base one, which is changed through update_layout instead.
remove_library_item
Approval: see the ruleRemoves an item from your library. Clips already using that media keep working.
remove_overlay
Approval: see the ruleRemoves an image or video overlay from a clip.
remove_silences
Approval: see the ruleDetects silent pauses in a clip's audio and cuts them, like the editor's Remove silences tool.
remove_sound_effect
Approval: see the ruleRemoves a sound effect from a clip, leaving the rest of the audio untouched.
remove_text_overlay
Approval: see the ruleRemoves a text overlay from a clip, such as a caption or a name tag.
remove_video_from_playlist
Approval: see the ruleTakes a video out of a playlist without touching the video itself.
remove_video_tag
Approval: see the ruleRemoves a tag from a video. It needs edit access to the video.
remove_video_thumbnail
Approval: see the ruleRemoves a video's custom thumbnail, uploaded image or picked frame, and goes back to the automatic one.
remove_zoom
Approval: see the ruleRemoves a zoom from a clip.
reorder_clip
Approval: see the ruleMoves a clip to a new position; the other clips shift so the video stays continuous.
set_background_music
Approval: see the ruleSets or replaces a video's background music, from Tella's curated tracks or from your own audio.
set_chapters
Approval: see the ruleReplaces every chapter of a video with the list you give. An empty list clears them all.
set_video_thumbnail
Approval: see the ruleSets a video's thumbnail, either from an uploaded image or from a frame picked in the video itself.
update_blur
Approval: see the ruleChanges an existing blur.
update_clip
Approval: see the ruleChanges a clip's settings: name, order, cuts, background, transition, audio volumes, cursor animation or frame style.
update_collaborator_on_video
Approval: see the ruleChanges a collaborator's role on a video.
update_highlight
Approval: see the ruleAdjusts a highlight already on a clip.
update_layout
Approval: see the ruleChanges a layout on a clip, including the base one; only the fields you give change.
update_overlay
Approval: see the ruleEdits an image or video overlay already placed; only the fields given are touched.
update_playlist
Approval: see the ruleChanges a playlist's information and settings.
update_playlist_group
Approval: see the ruleRenames a playlist group, changes its icon or moves it within its sidebar section.
update_sound_effect
Approval: see the ruleTweaks a sound effect already on the clip; fields you leave out stay as they are.
update_tag
Approval: see the ruleChanges a tag's name, colour or description. Private tags can only be changed by their creator.
update_text_overlay
Approval: see the ruleRewrites or restyles a text overlay: its wording, font, colours, timing, position, size, transition or depth.
update_transcript_words
Approval: see the ruleFixes what the transcript says, word by word: correct a spelling, or hide a word from captions and subtitles.
update_video
Approval: see the ruleChanges a video's information and settings, such as its title or access.
update_webhook
Approval: see the ruleChanges a webhook subscription's address, event filters or whether it is paused.
update_zoom
Approval: see the ruleRetunes a zoom already placed; only the fields you give are updated.
upload_clip
Approval: see the ruleAdds a new clip to a video from an uploaded file, next to the existing segments.
Undocumented (2)
2 toolsThe directory publishes these two names and nothing else. No official text says what they do, and this page will not infer it from a name.
get_clip_thumbnail
This name appears on the directory sheet, and no official source describes it: Tella's tool reference read in September 2026 has no entry for it. This page will not guess from the name.
get_video_thumbnail
Listed by the directory, undocumented everywhere else: no page of Tella's reference read in September 2026 mentions it, and no Claude help article describes it either.
What Claude asks before acting
By default, Claude stops and asks for your go-ahead before any action it takes on an account for you. The prompt shows up in the chat, at the moment it matters.
On a Team or Enterprise workspace, owners decide whether a member may let some actions through without being asked every time. They can also cap what a connector may do for the whole organization, for instance reading allowed and writing closed, and nobody lifts that from their own account. On Tella's side, most tools use your own Tella permissions: you only reach videos and playlists in workspaces you belong to. A few reading tools can also open a video outside your workspace when it has an ungated public link.
Which plans it is available on
Of the 819 sheets in the official directory, none shows availability per plan. The per-connector answer is published nowhere, which is a real gap in the catalogue.
The general rule is public: remote connectors are open to every user on Claude, Cowork, Claude Desktop and mobile. On Team and Enterprise, an Owner or Primary Owner enables the connector for the organization before members can sign in. For the current state, the connector's sheet in the official directory is the place to check. Tella is documented only by its publisher: no Claude help article covers it.
Where this connector stops
A connector is not an automation. Claude calls these tools while it answers you: nothing starts by itself when a recording finishes or a video gets a view.
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 on every sheet that it neither chooses a publisher's tools nor guarantees their behaviour. Tella's own reference is also broader than the directory sheet, with tools the sheet does not list. For a connector centred on data rather than video, see the Claude airtable connector.
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