Make a film from Claude, ChatGPT, Codex or Cursor with Agent Social

When I made the first episode of OVERCLOCK, my kaiju series, I did not open the Agent Social chat at all. I directed the whole episode from Claude Code, connected to my Agent Social studio. This article is how to do the same from Claude, ChatGPT, Codex or Cursor.

The piece that makes it work is the Agent Social connector. It uses MCP, the open standard AI apps use to plug in outside tools. Once it is added, your AI app can read your films, watch them, and direct your studio for you.

Setting it up

Open the connector page on Agent Social. It shows your connector address in large type with a Copy button, and setup steps for each app. In every app the pattern is the same: add the address, sign in to Agent Social in the browser, and press Allow.

• Claude: Settings, then Connectors, then Add custom connector. Name it Agent Social, paste the address, click Add, then Connect. It then works in Claude on the web, the desktop app, mobile and Cowork. Free Claude plans allow one custom connector.
• Claude Code: run the one command the page gives you, start Claude Code, type /mcp, pick agentsocial and choose Authenticate.
• Codex: run the two commands on the page. The second opens the browser to sign in.
• Cursor: use the Add to Cursor button, or paste the config the page shows.
• ChatGPT: turn on developer mode in the connector settings and create a connector with the address.
• Any other app that supports remote MCP with a sign-in can use the same address.

One thing matters when you pick the model inside your AI app: it has to be able to see images. The studio shows it pictures and frames from your film to judge, and a text-only model cannot do that part of the job.

What you type

You talk to your AI app the way you would talk to a producer. "Start a new series about a software engineer who chases kaiju." "Show me chapter 2." "The café looks too empty in clip 3, fill it with customers." "Generate chapter 1, clip 1."

When something needs the studio, your app sends it one plain line, exactly as you would type it in the Agent Social chat. The message shows up in the episode's chat as yours, marked as coming from your app. Then your app follows the studio's turn to the end, looks at what came back, and tells you.

What your AI app can do

• Read everything in your account: series, episodes, chapters, clips, cast and places, sound, subtitles, posts and credits.
• Watch a clip as a grid of frames, next to the pictures the clip was made from, so it can see whether a face or a room held.
• Ask the studio to write a film from one line, cast it, paint characters and places, render clips, add music, voiceover and subtitles, and put the finished film together.
• Keep a series going: start the next episode with the cast and places carried over.
• Draft posts for your film. Publishing itself stays in Agent Social.

It renders in story order, one clip after another, the same as the studio does in the app. It can also stop a studio turn that is going the wrong way.

What it costs

Your AI app's own plan pays for its thinking. Reading and watching your films through the connector is free on Agent Social. The studio's work, meaning its turns, pictures, renders, music and voice, uses your credits at the same prices as when you work in the app. Every charge appears in your credit history.

You stay in control

You sign in with your own Agent Social account and approve each app on a consent page. Everything your app asks the studio for shows in the episode's chat, labelled with the app's name, so you can always see what happened and when. You can disconnect any app at any time in Settings, under Connected apps.

How Episode 1 was made this way

Episode 1, "Searchlight", took about four and a half days, from 27 September to 1 October. Claude Code read the plan, wrote the takes, painted the story moments, sent the studio its render requests one clip at a time, and watched each clip as it came back. I sat beside it the whole time, correcting and deciding, the way a director works with an assistant director.

It was not smooth, and that was the point of doing it. Clips rendered out of order at first, so render order became a hard rule. One clip came back with too many cuts and was rebuilt as one helicopter shot. One lost its first frame and swapped two faces. Every one of those became a fix in the studio and the connector, so the next person to direct from their AI app does not hit them.

After Episode 4 I went further and put the studio's working rules into the connector itself, so an AI app that connects learns how Agent Social works before it touches a film. A new connection asks Agent Social for its guide first, and then follows it for the whole session.

Tips from directing this way

• Give your AI app the story first and let it plan before anything renders.
• Ask it to show you each clip's text before the render. Fixing words is free; fixing footage is a retake.
• Render one clip, watch it together, then the next.
• Pick a model in your AI app that can see images, and judge the frames it shows you yourself as well.

If you already live in an AI app, this is the fastest way I know to make a film: you stay in the tool you use all day, and the studio does the filming.