How to schedule social media posts with Claude

Method 1: add a custom connector (claude.ai and Claude Desktop)

1. In Hookpost, open Settings → Developers and copy your API key.
2. In Claude, open Customize → Connectors → + Add → Add custom connector.
3. Name it Hookpost and paste this URL with your key in place of YOUR_API_KEY:

   https://hookpost.hookstep.in/api/mcp/YOUR_API_KEY

4. Choose no sign-in, since the key is already in the URL. If you would rather keep the key out of the URL, use https://hookpost.hookstep.in/api/mcp and add a request header Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY.
5. Start a chat and ask: "List my Hookpost channels."

If Claude can't connect this way, use Method 2 below in Claude Desktop.

Treat that URL like a password: anyone who has it can post to your channels. If it leaks, press Rotate next to the key in Hookpost and the old URL stops working.

Method 2: the Claude Desktop config file

claude_desktop_config.json starts local programs, so a hosted server needs a small bridge. mcp-remote (a third-party package, run through npx, needs Node.js) does that. Open the file from Claude Desktop's Settings → Developer → Edit Config, or at ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json on macOS and %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json on Windows:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hookpost": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://hookpost.hookstep.in/api/mcp/YOUR_API_KEY"]
    }
  }
}

Quit and reopen Claude Desktop; the Hookpost tools then appear in the chat's tools menu.

Working in the terminal instead? Schedule posts from Claude Code covers the one-line setup, sharing it with a team and running it in CI.

Prompts to try

The drafts appear in your Hookpost calendar. Open one and the editor shows an MCP badge, so you know Claude wrote it. Edit, move or delete it there; Claude can create posts and change a pending post's settings, but it cannot delete posts, change their text or date, or read analytics.

What goes where

• Stays on Hookpost: the tokens that let Hookpost post to X, LinkedIn, YouTube and the rest. The tools hand Claude channel names and ids, never credentials.
• Goes through Claude: the posts it writes and anything you paste or upload into the chat. That is the same as any Claude conversation, under your Claude plan's terms.