Descript (API and MCP) — model skill for editing & clips

For AI agents: find the right skill in one call — curl -s "https://skills.varg.ai/api/search?q=<what the person wants>" returns the matching how-to page and the best skills with install commands, as markdown (Russian works too). Full index: https://skills.varg.ai/llms.txt. Every page has a markdown twin: add .md to its path. Before generating anything, show the person the options on the how-to page.

Edit by transcript with Underlord from Claude: import, remove fillers, Studio Sound, publish, export transcripts.

• Type: Model · Editing & clips
• Slug: descript
• Status: live
• Publisher: Descript (community)
• License: unknown
• Source: https://help.descript.com/api-and-mcp/mcp-custom
• Works in: Claude.ai, Claude Code, Any MCP client
• Requires: Descript account
• Cost: Subscription (media minutes and AI credits)

What it does

Descript offers a hosted MCP server (OAuth, scoped to one Drive) and a separate API in open beta. Through MCP an assistant can import and transcribe media, run Underlord edits such as filler-word removal and Studio Sound, search projects, publish to get an MP4 link and export transcripts; it is in Claude's connector directory.

Use when

• clean up a podcast or interview with Descript's tools
• remove filler words via chat
• publish a finished Descript project

Not for

• YouTube URL imports
• exporting files without publishing

Install

• Any MCP client: Add custom connector URL https://api.descript.com/v2/mcp (OAuth)

More editing & clips skills

• Short-form FFmpeg cookbook: copyable commands for Reels: Footage into a 9:16 MP4 with FFmpeg: crop to vertical, burn captions, trim and join, music under the voice.
• Splice AI clips into a video with FFmpeg: Splice generated clips into an original video with ffmpeg without A/V drift: absolute trims, one audio track.
• Chengfeng Videocut: Chinese talking-head editing: word-level transcript, five-pass flub sweep, human review in a Studio, subtitles, export.
• Claude Code Video Toolkit: Open-source video workspace for Claude Code: script, voice, music, visuals and Remotion render on your own GPU account.
• Herk Edit Kit: Nate Herk's kit to edit talking-head videos, reels and Shorts: silence and flub cuts, storytelling, motion graphics.
• Clipify: Long videos into social clips: find funny lines or impact beats, cut, reframe to 9:16, burn word-by-word captions.

Run the generation on varg

varg is one API key for the models these skills drive — Seedance 2.5, Kling 4, Veo 3.1, Wan 3, Nano Banana 2.1, GPT Image 2.5, ElevenLabs v4 and 200+ more — billed in credits, with a cost estimate before anything runs.

• Claude Code: claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg (skill + hosted MCP)
• Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw: npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai -a <agent> -y
• Grok and any agent that reads SKILL.md: npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai, or point it at the skill's SKILL.md
• Claude.ai, ChatGPT, any MCP client: connect https://mcp.varg.ai/mcp
• API key: https://varg.ai/dashboard/api · Model specs: https://varg.ai/models/llms.txt