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Edit a podcast with Descript from your AI assistant
Marketing content & social · checked 2026-10-17
Connect Descript’s MCP server, ask your AI assistant to remove filler words and draft show notes from the transcript, and review the edit in Descript before publishing.
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Human approval
You review the edit before publishing.
Watch out for
Keep the human approval step: You review the edit before publishing.
Starter prompt
Goal: Cut editing time on every episode. Tools involved: Descript, Claude. Your part: applies edits and provides the transcript over mcp; drafts show notes and chapter markers. Work step by step, show me each draft or proposed change, and wait for my approval before anything is sent, published, signed, filed or changed in a live system.
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Every MCP and API step is documented for this platform.
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Computed from the MCP and API steps only: "Confirmed" needs the tool's docs to name the platform and the platform to support the connection. Browser, upload and human steps work from any platform.
What we checked (2026-10-17)
Descript MCP signs in with your Descript login, with no API token, and is scoped to the one Drive you choose. Through it, an assistant can import media, edit with Underlord (for example, “add Studio Sound and remove filler words”), search projects, organize folders, publish to a Descript web link, and track or cancel jobs.
Transcripts export as text, Markdown, HTML, RTF or SRT, which is enough for show notes and chapters. DOCX isn’t supported.
Limits. You can’t download a rendered file without publishing, YouTube URLs can’t be used as import sources, and job history is kept for 30 days. In team workspaces, an admin may need to allow custom connectors first.
Pricing. Descript has a $0 plan. Hobbyist is $16 per person per month billed annually.
Set it up
Connect Descript to Claude and pick the Drive that holds your podcast.
Ask for filler-word removal and Studio Sound on the episode.
Have Claude read the transcript and draft show notes and chapter markers.
Open the project in Descript and listen through the edit. Automated cuts sometimes clip a word or a laugh.
Publish when you’re happy, from Descript or your podcast host.
Sources
Descript MCP · Descript · official · accessed 2026-10-17
