Post to Medium from Claude Code

Claude Code drafts it. You approve it. PostDelegate posts it.Medium: Markdown stories, on your profile or a publication.

How to post to Medium from Claude Code

Add PostDelegate to Claude Code. Add the PostDelegate MCP server with the command below. Run /mcp inside Claude Code and authenticate the postdelegate server. Your browser opens to sign in.
Terminal
```
claude mcp add postdelegate --transport http "https://app.postdelegate.com/mcp-oauth-dynamic"
```
Connect Medium in PostDelegate. Create one from your Medium security settings, if your account still offers them. Medium decides who can create tokens and owns that screen. If your account cannot create one, the connection cannot be made.
Ask Claude Code for a draft. Describe the post in plain words. Claude Code checks your Medium channel's rules, creates the post and sends back a preview link.

Teach Claude Code the posting rules

Save the PostDelegate skill to ~/.claude/skills/postdelegate/SKILL.md. Call it with /postdelegate, or just ask for a post and Claude Code loads it. Agent files has the steps.

What to ask Claude Code

Mention any Medium setting in plain words and Claude Code fills it in. Claude Code can also read text files in your project, such as a changelog or a draft in Markdown.

Draft a Medium story with a title and a subtitle from this outline, with a canonical URL to the original post.
Schedule the story for Thursday at 8:00 in our publication, with up to four tags.
Cross-post blog/2026-11-launch.md to Medium with the canonical URL set to our blog, as a draft.

What Claude Code can do on your Medium channel

Check the rules first. Before writing, it reads your Medium channel's length limit and required settings.
Draft, schedule or post. It creates a draft, a scheduled post or an immediate post, and runs the same checks as the app.
Use your media. It attaches files from your media library or adds one from a public link.
Review and fix. It lists what is scheduled, changes the Medium settings of a post that has not gone out, and deletes posts you no longer want.

A Medium story needs a title and a subtitle, and PostDelegate asks for both so a scheduled story is never missing one. The body is written in Markdown, up to 100,000 characters, with optional tags (up to four) and an optional canonical URL for stories that first appeared elsewhere.

Medium settings Claude Code can fill in

Setting	Notes
Title	Required, at least 2 characters.
Subtitle	Required, at least 2 characters.
Canonical URL	Optional. Use it when the story first appeared elsewhere.
Publication	Optional. Choose one of the publications you can post to.
Tags	Optional, up to 4.

Before you start

The connection needs a Medium integration token. Medium decides who can create tokens, so some accounts cannot connect.
A story sent to a publication arrives as a draft for an editor, not as a published story.

The Medium channel guide has every field, and MCP tools lists exactly what an assistant can and cannot do.

Questions

Will Claude Code publish to Medium without asking me?

Not unless you ask it to. Ask for a draft and the post waits on your calendar until you schedule it, and your workspace's approvals apply as usual. Tools that change data are marked as such, so Claude Code can ask you before it schedules or deletes anything.

Do I need an API key to connect Claude Code?

No. Claude Code signs in with your PostDelegate account through your browser. An API key is only for clients that cannot sign in, as described in MCP clients.

Does it cost extra to use Claude Code with PostDelegate?

No. The MCP server is on every plan, and Claude Code runs on your own Claude Code account, so PostDelegate never charges for AI. Every plan starts with a 7-day free trial with no card.

Can Claude Code attach images or video to a Medium post?

It can use files already in your media library, or add one from a public link. It cannot fetch files from your computer, so upload those in the app first. See MCP tools.

Do I need a Medium integration token?

Yes. PostDelegate connects to Medium with an integration token from your Medium security settings. Medium decides who can create tokens and owns that screen. If your account cannot create one, the connection cannot be made.

Does a scheduled Medium story go live or stay a draft?

It depends on the Publication setting. With no publication selected, the story is published publicly on your profile. With a publication selected, it is sent to the publication as a draft so an editor can review it.

Medium from other assistants

Other networks from Claude Code

Prefer to plan Medium posts yourself? See the Medium scheduler.