podcast-production

podcast-production is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from calesthio/generative-media-skills. It costs 194 tokens per session (8,024 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to producing complete podcast episodes when some or all of the audio is machine-generated. It covers the show format, scripts written for listening, voices, music, rights, loudness, delivery files, metadata, transcripts, disclosure, and quality checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Making interview shows, narrative episodes, news briefs, explainers, two-host programmes, internal briefings, and podcast format guides.
Why use it?
It brings the editorial, technical, legal, and publishing requirements into one production process. This helps prevent episodes from shipping with unclear audio, missing information, unauthorised material, or required AI disclosures left out.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Making interview shows, narrative episodes, news briefs, explainers, two-host programmes, internal briefings, and podcast format guides.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/calesthio/generative-media-skills/podcast-production
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add calesthio/generative-media-skills --skill podcast-production
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/calesthio/generative-media-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 194 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 8,024 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00194 $0.08024
Opus 5 $0.00097 $0.04012
Sonnet 5 $0.00039 $0.01605
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00802

Measured 12d ago against content hash 3371a04d8989, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

podcast-production scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/production/content-formats/podcast-production/SKILL.md · 559 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 559 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Podcast production with generative tools

This skill covers producing a finished, publishable podcast episode when some or all of the audio is machine-generated. It is provider-neutral: it names TTS engines, music libraries, and hosts only as illustrative options, never as the method. The craft — format design, writing for the ear, voice direction, structure, rights, loudness, delivery, disclosure, and QA — is the same regardless of which tool renders the audio.

An episode is done when it (1) serves a defined show and audience, (2) sounds intentional and consistent, (3) uses only audio you have the right to distribute, (4) meets the loudness and file specs of its target platforms, (5) ships correct RSS metadata plus a transcript, (6) carries any legally or platform-required AI disclosure, and (7) has passed a listen-through QA. Skipping any of these is a defect, not a shortcut.


1. Scope and activation

Use this skill when the task is a spoken-word audio program: a topic explainer show, an interview series, a daily/weekly news brief, a narrative/documentary episode, a two-host conversational show, an internal briefing feed, or a show bible/format design for any of those.

Do not use it for:

  • Music production — songs, beds, or stings as the deliverable (that is a music/audio-generation concern). This skill consumes music and treats it as a rights and loudness problem.
  • A single TTS line — an IVR prompt, a notification, one voiceover clip with no show context.
  • Video where the picture leads — if the deliverable is a video and audio is a track under it, the video workflow owns pacing and delivery. This skill applies when audio is the product.

If a request is ambiguous ("make an audio version of this article"), confirm whether the output is a one-off narration or an episode of a show. The two need different structure and metadata.


2. Format design (do this before writing a word)

The single most consequential early decision is format, because format dictates script style, voice count, structure, and length. Common podcast formats and what each demands (production heuristic, drawn from standard podcast-production practice — see Sources):

Read the full file on GitHub · 559 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 559 lines · 194 tokens per session scan A 3371a04d8989

Subscribe to this mod's changes

podcast-production is a skill published in the GitHub repository calesthio/generative-media-skills (170 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 194 tokens to every session and 8,024 once invoked, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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