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Add podstow to your assistant.

podstow is a Model Context Protocol server. Point Claude, Cursor, VS Code, or any MCP-aware assistant at it and it writes episodes straight to your podcast feed.

Point your assistant at the podstow MCP server, then sign in when it asks — that links episodes to your free podstow feed.

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Claude

  1. Add a custom connector and paste the URL above.

    Customize Connectors Add custom connector

  2. Sign in to podstow when your assistant prompts you — that links your account.

Once podstow is listed in the Anthropic Connectors Directory, you'll find it under Connectors directly — connect from the directory listing and skip the URL paste.

Try asking your assistant:

  • Send this deep research report to my podstow feed.
  • Send a weekly delivery summary for my project to my podstow feed.
  • Send me today's schedule with a briefing for each meeting to my podstow feed.

No podstow account yet? You'll create one — free — when you sign in at the connect step above. Nothing to set up here first.

What the connector can do

podstow turns the things you mean to read into a private podcast you can actually listen to. A connected assistant gets six tools — two that write episodes into your feed, four that read what's already there.

  • submit_url Write

    Send the URL of an article, blog post, or web page. podstow scrapes it, narrates it with natural text-to-speech, and publishes it as an episode in your feed. Each call uses one article from your quota.

  • submit_text Write

    Publish text the assistant wrote itself — a summary, deep-research report, or digest — as an episode. Assistant-written episodes are always titled with an [AI] prefix so you can tell them apart in your feed. Each call uses one article from your quota.

  • list_episodes Read

    Browse your most recent episodes — titles, links, and publish dates, with a handle to request each episode's transcript.

  • get_episode_transcript Read

    Pull the transcript for an episode — an inline preview the assistant can use immediately, plus a link to the full text.

  • get_account Read

    Your plan, article usage and limits, voice preferences, and your feed URL.

  • show_listen_instructions Read

    Shows you how to listen: open podstow on this device, or subscribe in a podcast app — your feed URL, per-app links, and a QR code. In Claude it renders as an interactive card. Needs no permission grant and never touches your quota.

Permissions

The connector authenticates with OAuth 2.1, and you choose what to grant when you connect. The episodes:read scope covers reading your episodes and account; episodes:create is needed by the two write tools; show_listen_instructions needs no grant at all. A read-only grant works fine — the assistant can browse and quote your feed but can't publish to it.

Grants are per app, and you can revoke any of them at any time from your podstow account page — disconnecting one assistant never touches another.

How it works

  1. Your assistant calls submit_url or submit_text — because you asked it to send an article, or to write something up for your feed.

  2. podstow scrapes or ingests the content, synthesises the audio, and publishes a new episode.

  3. It lands in your private RSS feed — listen in Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Pocket Casts, or any podcast app you already use.

Frequently asked questions

How do I send an article from Claude to a podcast feed?

Connect the podstow MCP server (the URL above) to Claude — as a custom connector today, or from the Anthropic Connectors Directory once listed — then ask Claude to send the article to your podstow feed. Claude calls submit_url; podstow scrapes the page, narrates it, and publishes it as an episode in your private feed.

Can my assistant write its own reports into my feed?

Yes. submit_text publishes text the assistant wrote — a summary, deep-research report, or digest — as an episode, always titled with an [AI] prefix so you can tell it apart.

Do I need a podstow account before connecting?

No. When your assistant first connects it sends you through podstow's sign-in, and a free account is created there if you don't have one.

Which AI assistants work with podstow?

Any MCP-aware assistant: Claude (web, desktop, and mobile), ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code, and anything else that can connect to a remote MCP server over streamable HTTP with OAuth.

How do I listen to the episodes?

Episodes land in a private RSS feed. Subscribe to it in Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Pocket Casts, or any podcast app — or listen in podstow itself. Ask your assistant how to listen and it will walk you through it.

What data can a connected assistant read?

Only your podstow data, and only what you grant: your episode list, transcripts, and account state with episodes:read; publishing with episodes:create. Both are revocable any time from your account page.