Connect to Riverside MCP

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Give your AI agent direct access to your Riverside content and let it search your transcripts, cut edits, export edits and schedule posts for you, all from your chat.

Riverside's MCP is the bridge between your Riverside content and your AI of choice, whether that's Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex, Vercel, OpenClaw, or Perplexity. It finds anything across your archives, edits content based on your descriptions, cuts the edits you want, exports them, and publishes to your social platforms, all without leaving the chat.

How to connect

• Connect to Claude.ai

  1. Log in to your Riverside account.
  2. In the bottom left corner, click the account menu button.
  3. Click Settings.
  4. Under Your account, choose MCP.
  5. Next to Claude, click Connect.
     This will take you directly to the Riverside connector in the Claude directory.
  6. If prompted, log in to Claude.
  7. Next to the Riverside connector, click Connect to Claude.
     
     The status will change to Connected when successfully connected.

  8. Your agent is ready to read and edit your Riverside content, mention Riverside in a chat to get started.

     * On the Free Claude plan, you can add only one custom connector.

     * On Team or Enterprise accounts, your org's admin needs to add the connector first.

• Connect to Claude Code

  1. In your terminal, run: claude mcp add --transport http --scope user riverside https://mcp.riverside.com/mcp.
  2. Open Claude Code and run /mcp to sign in.
     The --scope user part makes Riverside available in every folder, not just the one where the command ran.

• Connect to ChatGPT

  1. Log in to your Riverside account.
  2. In the bottom left corner, click the account menu button.
  3. Click Settings.
  4. Under Your account, choose MCP.
  5. Next to ChatGPT, click Connect.
     This will take you directly to the Riverside plugin in the ChatGPT directory.
  6. If prompted, log in to ChatGPT.
  7. Next to the Riverside plugin, click Install plugin.
     
     The status will change to Try in chat when successfully connected.

  8. Your agent is ready to read and edit your Riverside content, mention Riverside in a chat to get started.

     * On Business, Enterprise, or Education plans, your org's admin needs to approve Riverside as a connector first.

     * MCP apps work on ChatGPT web and desktop only, not in the mobile app.

     * Personal ChatGPT plans only support read-only tasks like browsing your content and transcripts.

• Connect to Codex

  This one setup covers Codex CLI, the Codex IDE extension, and the ChatGPT desktop app.

  1. Add the server: codex mcp add riverside --url https://mcp.riverside.com/mcp (alternative: add a [mcp_servers.riverside] section with url = "https://mcp.riverside.com/mcp" to ~/.codex/config.toml).
  2. Sign in: codex mcp login riverside.
  3. In a Codex session, run /mcp to confirm Riverside is connected and its tools are listed.
     Don't use an npx/mcp-remote bridge. Codex handles remote HTTP and OAuth itself.

• Connect to Cursor

  1. Log in to your Riverside account.
  2. In the bottom left corner, click the account menu button.
  3. Click Settings.
  4. Under Your account, choose MCP.
  5. Next to Cursor, click Connect.
  6. In the new window, click Open Cursor.
     This will take you directly to the Install MCP server window in the Cursor desktop app with all the details filled in for the Riverside MCP.
     
  7. At the bottom of the window, click Install.
     The Riverside MCP is now added to your Cursor MCPs list
  8. On the Riverside MCP, click Authenticate.
     Your browser will open
  9. When prompted, click Open Cursor.
     Your agent is ready to read and edit your Riverside content, mention Riverside in a chat to get started.

To publish or schedule posts through your agent, connect the social platform (YouTube, YouTube Shorts, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, X, Facebook) in the Riverside dashboard first. Platforms can only be connected on Riverside, not through your agent.

Scheduling a recording session and managing your podcast hosting stay in Riverside. Your AI can't manage those for you.

Good to know

• You'll need to authenticate separately for each AI agent you connect to Riverside.
• When your agent makes an edit, it opens a new edit rather than overwriting existing content, so your original stays intact.
• When your agent exports an edit, the finished file appears in your exports folder.
• Connecting an agent doesn't change anything in your Riverside account settings.
• Using the Riverside MCP does not affect your Riverside AI credits.
• If you use a different AI client, contact support to request it. We add new AI clients on a per-request basis.

Learn more

• Riverside integrations: Overview
• AI at Riverside: Everything you need to know