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Post to YouTube from Claude Code with Wahlu

Connect Claude Code to Wahlu once, then plan, draft and schedule posts for YouTube channels connected to Wahlu from the Claude Code terminal and IDE extensions. Every schedule can wait for your approval.

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What Claude Code can prepare on YouTube

  • Video

    One video with a title and description.

  • Short

    One square or vertical video of up to three minutes.

Ask Claude Code for YouTube posts

Example prompts and the steps to expect. These are illustrations, not recorded conversations.

Example prompt

“Write a YouTube title, description and tags for the demo video linked in CHANGELOG.md, then create a private draft so I can check it.”

Example prompt

“Write a YouTube Short caption about CHANGELOG.md, attach the vertical clip at its public link and hold the schedule for review.”

Example prompt

“Run a readiness check on the YouTube draft you made for CHANGELOG.md and explain anything that would stop it publishing.”

What Wahlu does on YouTube

Claude Code works through Wahlu's tools, so it can set the YouTube options Wahlu supports.

YouTube settings on a draft

Title
Required, up to 100 characters.
Privacy
Public, unlisted or private.
Made for kids
Required on every upload.
Tags
Up to 500 characters of tags in total.
Notify subscribers
Choose whether subscribers are told.

Wahlu doesn't set a YouTube category or playlist.

The tool calls, in order

  1. 01

    list_targetsFinds the brand's connected YouTube account and checks it's ready.

  2. 02

    upload_media, import_media_from_url or list_mediaBrings in the image or video, or picks one from your media library.

  3. 03

    create_draftCreates the draft with its caption and youtube_settings, such as the post type.

  4. 04

    preflight_draftChecks the draft against YouTube's rules without changing it.

  5. 05

    create_schedulePuts it on the calendar at pending_review, held for your approval.

YouTube limits to know

Wahlu checks these before a post is scheduled, so the agent finds out early.

Getting video to YouTube

The agent can read a file in your project and upload it with upload_media. Files over 8 MB, including most video, go to a short-lived upload link the agent sends the file to. Public links and your media library work too.

Connect Claude Code to Wahlu

Set this up once and Claude Code can work on every network you've connected, not just YouTube.

  1. 1

    Run claude mcp add (the command shown here) in your project.

  2. 2

    In Claude Code, run /mcp, select wahlu and sign in to Wahlu in the browser that opens.

Checked against the Claude Code docs on 24 September 2026. Menus can change; if a step doesn't match what you see, follow the vendor's current instructions.

Add Wahlu to Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http wahlu https://mcp.wahlu.com/mcp

This adds Wahlu to the current project. To use it in every project, add --scope user before wahlu. If Wahlu's tools don't appear, start a new Claude Code session.

You stay in control.

Every Wahlu plan includes agent access, through MCP and the API. You choose the workspace, brands and permissions each connection gets, and can disconnect it at any time.

Held until you approve

Agents create schedules at pending_review unless you've told them to publish. A held schedule can't publish until you approve it in the Wahlu calendar.

Publishing is its own permission

Publish to social accounts is separate from Manage your schedule. Leave it unticked and nothing your agent schedules can go out on its own.

Checked before it's scheduled

preflight_draft reports anything that would stop a post, such as media the network won't accept or a caption that's too long, without changing anything.

Some things stay in the app

Queues, general edits to existing drafts, approvals and connecting social accounts happen in the Wahlu app, not through your agent.

Keep going

Your next YouTube post, drafted by Claude Code.

Connect your YouTube account in Wahlu, then give Claude Code a specific brief.

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