Claude tool reference

These are the tools the Reelport extension adds to Claude. You don't call them yourself: ask in plain words and Claude picks the tools. This list helps you know what's possible and read what Claude is doing. In Claude Desktop they appear under the Reelport extension. Long jobs (reading a video, editing, rendering, uploading) run in the background, and Claude checks on them with progress.

Which tools work depends on your plan. A tool outside it answers with an upgrade note.

Account and setup

Tool	What it does
`reelport_status`	Your reelport.io sign-in, plan, features and connected channels.
`reelport_signin`	Starts the sign-in: gives a code and opens reelport.io/device.
`reelport_signin_poll`	Checks whether you confirmed the code.
`reelport_signout`	Signs this computer out of reelport.io.
`reelport_api_token`	Saves (or forgets) a reelport.io API token instead of the code sign-in.
`check_setup`	Checks Resolve Studio, external scripting and permissions.
`self_test`	A 10-second health check of your computer, with fixes.
`diagnose`	Writes a detailed report for support to your Desktop.

Footage and project

Tool	What it does
`read_open_project`	What's open in Resolve: project, timeline, selected clip.
`find_footage`	Finds a clip by name on a card or drive ("C9348 on my Sony card", "my latest clip").
`list_volumes`	Lists connected drives and cards.
`read_video`	Has Resolve transcribe and measure a clip (background job).
`read_transcript`	The word-timed transcript, and the camera Reelport recognised.
`progress`	The state of a running Reelport job.
`import_folder`	Imports a folder into a bin of the same name.
`place_media`	Puts B-roll, a sound or a logo on the timeline.

Styles, fonts and brand

Tool	What it does
`list_styles`	The five styles plus your own.
`get_style_guide`	The rulebook of a style.
`learn_style`	Learns a new style from your example edit.
`layouts`	Reelport's text looks for hooks and designs.
`hook_library`	The 29 premade animated hooks.
`list_fonts`	Fonts Resolve can use.
`font_preview`	The in-chat font picker.
`install_font`	Installs a font file or folder for your user.
`get_brand_kit` / `save_brand_kit`	Your saved choices, logo, colours and fonts.
`broll_bank`	Connects your B-roll folder and shows its clips.
`brand_watermark`	Puts your logo on a timeline.

Editing a talking head

Tool	What it does
`plan_edit`	A dry run of the edit, with warnings to fix.
`edit_in_resolve`	Builds the edit as a new timeline in Resolve.
`undo_last_edit`	Removes Reelport's last timeline.

Director mode

Tool	What it does
`understand_footage`	Contact sheets, light, motion and sound of your clips; tempo and beats of your music.
`ask_choices`	Clickable question cards with frames of your footage.
`assemble_reel`	Builds the whole reel from Claude's plan.
`assemble_variations`	Two to five reels from the same footage in one job.

Captions and text

Tool	What it does
`auto_subtitles`	Subtitles from the timeline's audio.
`subtitle_lines`	Reads the subtitle lines.
`export_srt`	Saves subtitles as SRT, translated or corrected, and can import them.
`caption_looks`	The animated caption looks your plan includes.
`animated_captions`	Animated captions in one of 69 looks.
`timeline_text`	Every text on the timeline, for a spell-check.
`set_timeline_text`	Fixes text in titles (after you agree).
`motion_title`	Kinetic text, lower thirds, counters, callouts.

Cutting and finishing

Tool	What it does
`remove_silences`	Jump cut: removes pauses from a clip.
`punch_ins`	Punch-in zooms at chosen moments.
`bleep`	Bleeps or mutes swear words.
`podcast`	Podcast multicam cut by who's talking.
`shorts`	Shorts and montages from a long video, 9:16 around the speaker.
`export_shorts`	Renders several marked shorts in one go.
`color_look`	One of 15 colour looks, on a copy.
`mix_audio`	Voice to -14 LUFS, music under it.
`sound_fx`	Whooshes on cuts and a riser into the hook.

Markers

Tool	What it does
`list_markers` / `add_markers` / `clear_markers`	Read, add or delete (by colour) timeline markers.
`add_chapters`	YouTube chapters as markers, plus the description text.
`beat_markers`	Markers on the beats and bars of the music.
`safe_zones`	TikTok, Reels or Shorts safe-zone guide (left out of renders).

Render, publish and schedule

Tool	What it does
`render_timeline`	Renders the open timeline for a platform.
`reelport_channels`	Your reelport.io channels, with TikTok's live posting options.
`next_slots`	The next free times in your reelport.io queue.
`publish`	Posts now (after you confirmed the caption and every platform's options).
`schedule_post`	Schedules one or more videos, uses free slots, or saves drafts. Can post as a story.
`markers_to_drafts`	Turns marked shorts into reelport.io drafts.
`post_status`	A post's result and link.

CapCut

Tool	What it does
`capcut_projects`	Lists your CapCut desktop projects.
`capcut_open`	Opens one: media, camera, canvas, templates.
`capcut_step`	Runs a step: analyze, cut list, QA, build, preview, graphics.
`capcut_read`	Reads a work file (transcript, QA report).
`capcut_install`	Writes the edit into the CapCut project (CapCut must be closed).

The CapCut workflow is described in Editing in CapCut.

Slash commands

Command	What it starts
`/reelport`	A guided edit in Resolve: setup, the clip, the menus, the edit, then the offer to publish. Also director mode and every editor tool.
`/reelport-capcut`	A guided edit of a CapCut desktop project.

Both come from Reelport.plugin (Editing with Claude).