podcast-production

podcast-production is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cdeistopened/skill-stack. It costs 36 tokens per session (3,994 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A staged workflow for turning a raw podcast transcript into YouTube plans, social-media assets, and a polished blog post.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find the strongest episode angle, plan an opening, choose social clips, create YouTube titles and thumbnail ideas, and prepare final content.
Why use it?
It separates story selection, clips, publishing strategy, and final writing into reviewable checkpoints.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cdeistopened/skill-stack/podcast-production
Any agent
npx skills add cdeistopened/skill-stack --skill podcast-production
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cdeistopened/skill-stack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,994 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00036 $0.03994
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01997
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00799
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00399

Measured 3d ago against content hash a63598f70173, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 3d 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.

.claude/skills/podcast-production/SKILL.md · 423 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 423 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Podcast Production Skill

Overview

Transform a raw podcast transcript into polished, multi-platform content assets through four strategic checkpoints. Each checkpoint delivers decision-ready analysis in a markdown file for your feedback before proceeding. You'll provide feedback directly in the checkpoint documents, then we'll iterate before moving to the next phase. Final outputs include publication-ready YouTube strategy and a narrative-driven blog post.

Workflow Structure:

  • Start with [Guest]_Source_Material.md (raw transcript + notes)
  • Create Checkpoint_1_Story_Discovery.md (your feedback here)
  • Create Checkpoint_2_Cold_Opens_and_Clips.md (your feedback here)
  • Create Checkpoint_3_YouTube_Strategy.md (your feedback here)
  • Create Checkpoint_4_Polished_Transcript_and_Blog.md (final deliverable)

When to Use This Skill

  • You have a raw podcast transcript and need to identify the strongest marketing angle
  • You want to create a cold open that hooks listeners immediately
  • You need YouTube titles and thumbnail strategies
  • You're creating social clips from podcast material
  • You want to create SEO-optimized blog content from the episode
  • You want all assets aligned with your brand identity

THE FOUR CHECKPOINTS

Checkpoint 1: Story Discovery (90-120 min)

Goal: Find the primary story arc that will anchor all episode assets.

Method: Narrative Snippets - mine the transcript for story beats, not just "big ideas."

The Reframe:

  • Old approach: List "Big Ideas" → Find clips to illustrate them
  • New approach: Find the STORY → The big idea emerges from the story's insight beat

Your deliverable: Checkpoint_1_Story_Discovery.md

What it contains:

  • 2-3 Story Arcs identified (6-beat structure)
  • Primary Arc selected with rationale
  • The Big Idea (derived from Insight/Reflection beats)
  • Preview of derived assets (cold open direction, title direction)
  • Chapter Outline (timestamped)
  • Quote Bank (organized by story beat)

Read the full file on GitHub · 423 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 files 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. 3d ago First seen · 423 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A a63598f70173

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podcast-production is a skill published in the GitHub repository cdeistopened/skill-stack (27 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 3,994 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.