Ask your assistant to send research, a brief or an article to Readcast. It arrives as a private episode in Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Pocket Casts or any podcast app that adds shows by URL.
Readcast reads what your assistant sends as written. Ask for a conversation, and two hosts discuss it instead.
Episodes usually take a few minutes and arrive in your private feed with show notes. Nothing is made public.
A scheduled task in ChatGPT or Claude can do the research and send you a brief each day.
Add the connection link to your app once. The app then sends you to Readcast to sign in and approve access, so you never give it your password or an API key.
https://mcp.readcast.io/mcp
Every app uses this same link.
Run this once in your terminal, then complete the Readcast sign-in when Claude Code prompts.
claude mcp add --transport http readcast https://mcp.readcast.io/mcp
Install Readcast as a remote MCP server, then sign in when Cursor asks. You can also add the connection link in Cursor’s MCP settings.
Add to CursorAdd Readcast to your MCP servers, then sign in when VS Code asks. You can also run MCP: Add Server, choose HTTP and paste the link.
Add to VS CodeAdd the connection link as a Streamable HTTP server and choose OAuth when the app asks how to sign in.
Need a local server or an API key instead? Sign in and open Connect AI apps; the advanced setup there covers both. Writing your own client? The HTTP API is described in an OpenAPI document that API tools and code generators can read.
Readcast adds these 13 tools to your assistant. Each acts only on your own Readcast account; “Make an episode from a web page” also fetches the page you name.
create_podcast_from_text
Turns text the assistant gives it into an episode, read word for word, or as a two-host conversation when you ask for one. It can hold the episode as a draft until you approve it in Readcast.
episodes:writecreate_podcast_from_url
Fetches a public web page, takes out the article and makes an episode from it. It can hold the episode as a draft until you approve it in Readcast.
episodes:writecreate_podcast_from_script
Performs a dialogue for up to two voices that the assistant wrote, word for word. It can hold the episode as a draft until you approve it in Readcast.
episodes:writeretry_episode
Tries again to make an episode that failed or was cancelled.
episodes:writeget_episode_status
Reports how far an episode has got, and why it failed if it did.
episodes:readlist_recent_episodes
Lists your episodes, newest first, by date, feed, series or tag.
episodes:readsearch_episodes
Finds episodes by words in their titles, show notes, tags and text.
episodes:readget_episode
Reads one of your episodes in full, including the text it was made from.
episodes:readlist_feeds
Lists your feeds, each with its own address for a podcast app.
episodes:readlist_voices
Lists the voices you can choose from, including voices you saved.
episodes:readwhoami
Shows your name, email address, feed address and remaining allowance.
episodes:readupdate_episode
Changes an episode's title, show notes, series and tags. The audio stays as it is.
episodes:writecancel_episode
Stops an episode that is still being made, or discards a draft. A finished episode is not removed.
episodes:writeReadcast signs apps in with OAuth 2.0. When you connect one, you approve it on a Readcast page and it is granted the scopes it asks for, both of these when it asks for neither. The approval page lists what the app will be able to do. Each app gets its own access, which you can withdraw at any time.
episodes:read
See your name, email address, feeds, voices and private feed addresses, and list, search and read your episodes, including the text they were made from.
episodes:write
Make episodes from text, web pages and scripts, retry failed ones, edit an episode's details and cancel one in progress.
An app you approve with both scopes can use every tool on this page; one approved with episodes:read alone can only read. It cannot delete a finished episode, see your password, change your plan or payment details, or make anything public. To disconnect an app, open Manage access in your Readcast account, or remove the connector in the app.
Readcast does not receive your conversations. It sees only what your assistant sends when it uses one of the tools above.
Read the Privacy Policy and the Terms of Service.
Once Readcast is connected, ask in your own words. For example:
“Send this report to Readcast as a narrated episode.”
“Make a two-host Readcast episode from https://example.com/article for my Morning brief feed.”
“What did my Readcast episodes say about battery storage this month?”
Paste one into a scheduled task in ChatGPT or Claude and replace the part in brackets. Readcast creates a named feed the first time an episode is sent to it; add it to your podcast app from More feeds in your library.
Every weekday at 7:00, find the three most important developments in [topic] from the last 24 hours. Write about 700 words of plain spoken English and send it to Readcast as a narration in my "Morning brief" feed, with the idempotency key "brief-" followed by today's date.
Every Monday at 7:00, find the most important developments in [topic] from the past seven days. Write about 1,500 words of plain spoken English, a short section for each, and send it to Readcast as a narration in my "Weekly roundup" feed, with the idempotency key "roundup-" followed by today's date.
Email support@readcast.io. Say which app you connected from and roughly when the problem happened.
Make an account, then connect your assistant with the steps above.