The Shooting Draft connector

For Claude, ChatGPT and any assistant that speaks the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Last updated 2026-09-18.

What it is

Shooting Draft is a screenwriting app that carries a script all the way to a cut: the screenplay, the shot list, storyboards, clips, voices and an edit you can finish in Premiere, Resolve or Final Cut. The connector lets an AI assistant work inside your own Shooting Draft account, in the same projects you see in the app: read a script, write and revise scenes, build a shot list, make frames and clips, and hand a timeline to your editor.

Everything the assistant does lands in your project, where you review it. You stay in charge: the app keeps versions of a project that you can go back to.

How to connect

You need a Shooting Draft account. The app is in private beta; ask for access at app.shootingdraft.com.

The connector address is:

https://app.shootingdraft.com/api/mcp

Claude (claude.ai, the desktop app, Cowork). Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector. Paste the address above and continue. Claude opens Shooting Draft's own sign-in page; sign in and press Allow. There is no key to copy.
Claude Code. Run claude mcp add --transport http shooting-draft https://app.shootingdraft.com/api/mcp, then /mcp and choose Authenticate.
ChatGPT and other clients with sign-in support. Add the address as a connector (or remote MCP server) and sign in when asked.
Clients without sign-in support. In the app, open Account and create an API key, then give the client the address above with the header Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY.

Sign-in uses OAuth 2.1 with PKCE. The assistant never sees your password. To disconnect, open Account → Connected agents in the app and revoke it; it stops working at once. You can also delete an API key there.

The tools

The connector offers 47 tools. Each one tells your assistant whether it only reads, whether it can replace or remove something, and whether it reaches outside your account, so the assistant can ask you first when it should.

read onlychanges nothing
can replace or removemay overwrite or delete something that was there
reaches outsidefetches an address you give it, or touches something public

Read · 10

Look things up. These change nothing in your account.

Check capabilities and balancesstudio_capabilitiesread only
Check credits and planstudio_accountread only
Get a scene's shot promptsget_shot_promptsread only
List projectslist_projectsread only
Read a characterget_characterread only
Read a projectget_projectread only
Read a team folderget_team_contextread only
Read the Studio guidestudio_helpread only
Read the Studio Vaultget_contextread only
Search public-domain bookssearch_public_domainread onlyreaches outside

Write and organise · 24

Create and edit projects, scenes, characters and notes.

Add a reference imageattach_reference_imagereaches outside
Add a sceneadd_beat
Add media to the Backlotadd_backlot_itemreaches outside
Attach media to a scene or shotattach_mediacan replace or removereaches outside
Create a projectcreate_project
Create or update a characterupdate_charactercan replace or remove
Create or update a prop or placeset_reference_entitycan replace or remove
Edit a sceneupdate_beatcan replace or remove
Import a character lensimport_lensreaches outside
Import a script as a projectimport_script
Import an editor's timelineimport_cutcan replace or remove
Publish to the Community gallerypublish_to_communityreaches outside
Remove a sceneremove_beatcan replace or remove
Replace the outlineset_outlinecan replace or remove
Replace the story proseset_story_prosecan replace or remove
Save a version snapshotsnapshot_project
Save or cast a library charactersave_character_to_librarycan replace or remove
Set the lookset_look_tonecan replace or remove
Set the premiseset_premisecan replace or remove
Set the trailerset_trailercan replace or remove
Set the worldset_worldcan replace or remove
Unpublish from the galleryunpublish_from_communitycan replace or removereaches outside
Write a team notewrite_team_notecan replace or remove
Write a vault notewrite_notecan replace or remove

Generate · 11

Make pictures, clips, sound and drafted pages. The ones marked "uses your plan or credits" spend from your own account; for pictures, clips and sound the assistant is given the exact amount first and has to confirm it.

Build a character's identity viewsgenerate_character_viewsuses your plan or credits
Frame a shot with local ComfyUIgenerate_storyboardcan replace or remove
Generate a table read or scoregenerate_audiocan replace or removeuses your plan or credits
Generate an image or clipgenerate_cloudcan replace or removeuses your plan or credits
Live in the worldworld_sandboxuses your plan or credits
Run a character sandbox scenecharacter_sandboxuses your plan or credits
Run a craft passstudio_craftuses your plan or credits
Talk to a charactertalk_to_characteruses your plan or credits
Train a character lenstrain_lens_on_oxenreaches outsideuses your plan or credits
Wait for a running jobwait_jobcan replace or remove
Write with the Studiostudio_writeuses your plan or credits

Export · 2

Take your work out to an editor or a folder.

Copy vault media for exportexport_vault_media
Export the cut as a timelineexport_cut

Your data

It acts as you, and only as you. A connected assistant can reach the projects your account can reach, nothing else, for as long as you leave it connected.
What the assistant sees. When it calls a tool, the answer (for example the text of a scene) goes back to the assistant you connected, under that assistant's own privacy terms.
What leaves Shooting Draft. Only what you ask for: an address you hand a tool is fetched once by our server; a search of the public-domain catalog sends your search words to it; publishing to the gallery and training a character lens happen only when you ask for that specific thing.
No training on your work. Shooting Draft does not use your scripts, images, audio or any other content to train or improve any AI model, and does not permit its model providers to.
No advertising, no tracking. There are no advertising or cross-site tracking cookies and no third-party analytics.
Deleting. Revoke a connection any time in Account → Connected agents. Deleting a project or your account is covered in the privacy policy.

The full text is the Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use. The format a project is stored in is published for machines at /api/schema.

Support

Write to support@shootingdraft.com. Say which assistant you connected and what you asked it to do. To report a security problem, use the same address with the word security in the subject.

Terms & privacy · shootingdraft.com