podcast

podcast is a skill for Claude Code from Pika-Labs/Pika-Plugins. It costs 142 tokens per session (7,787 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A video-generation workflow for making a one-minute, two-host podcast about a web page or a stated topic.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps create four 15-second dialogue sections with generated studio and host images, optional voice cloning for Host A, and a chosen output shape.
Why use it?
It turns a URL or topic into a structured conversation without requiring the user to prepare the video scenes manually.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; positional $N argument.

Part of the pika plugin — 20 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

not rated 40repo 1mo ago A scan Socket: warnSnyk: warnSkillSpector: warn 142 tokens original Apache-2.0

Good fit It helps create four 15-second dialogue sections with generated studio and host images, optional voice cloning for Host A, and a chosen output shape.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pika-labs/pika-plugins/podcast
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 Pika-Labs/Pika-Plugins --skill podcast
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Pika-Labs/Pika-Plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pika, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/pika-labs/pika-plugins/podcast/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/pika-labs/pika-plugins/podcast)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/pika-labs/pika-plugins/podcast"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/pika-labs/pika-plugins/podcast/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for podcast

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/pika-labs/pika-plugins/podcast"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/pika-labs/pika-plugins/podcast.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 142 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,787 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
  • Socket warn 4 May 2026
  • Snyk warn 4 May 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high System Prompt Leakage · line 243
    Skill contains instructions that could directly expose system prompts, internal rules, or hidden instructions to users or external parties.
    Fix: Remove any instructions that reveal, print, or output system prompts or internal rules. System instructions should never be exposed to end users.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 86
    Skill grants unrestricted tool access without appropriate constraints. An agent with unfettered tool access can perform arbitrary actions including file modification, network requests, and code execution.
    Fix: Restrict tool access to only the tools required for the skill's stated purpose. Use an explicit allowlist rather than granting blanket access.
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 $0.00142 $0.07787
Opus 5 $0.00071 $0.03893
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.01557
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00779

Measured 9d ago against content hash 3b8df7df1a23, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

podcast 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 9d 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/podcast/SKILL.md · 338 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 338 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/pika:podcast

4 acts × 15s each = 60s. Host A always LEFT, Host B always RIGHT. Accepts a URL or a free-form topic / brief.

Parameters

Param Default Notes
input required URL to review or free-form topic / brief (e.g. "I and Elon Musk talk about Mars")
bg_img auto-generated Podcast studio background
host_a_img auto-generated Host A portrait — see Real-person handling below
host_b_img auto-generated Host B portrait — see Real-person handling below
voice_a 876341503281471517 Kling preset or cloned voice ID for Host A
voice_b 829837252279803904 Kling preset or cloned voice ID for Host B
aspect_ratio 16:9 Output aspect ratio

Cost transparency gate

Before any paid MCP call, call identity_balance({verbose: true}) once. Surface the current balance, recent burn rate, and remaining runway, then gate the run with this exact message:

Estimated cost: about 6,000-9,000 credits (~$60-$90) for four Kling v3-omni pro 15s acts, optional missing-asset image generation, one act corrective retry, concat, and post-flight analyze_media QA. This exceeds $5, so Reply proceed to continue or cancel to stop.

Do not call any paid MCP tool until the user replies proceed. If the user replies cancel, stop without generating. This is the only yes/no gate; after proceed, render the four acts and return the URL.

Defaults — fire fast, no mid-flow confirmation

  • Use the param-table defaults silently for voices. voice_a defaults to the Kling preset 876341503281471517 and voice_b to 829837252279803904. Do not ask "which voice?" before firing — only honor explicit overrides (voice_a=, voice_b=).
  • Auto-generate any missing host portraits silently (Step 1's archetype prompts). Do not ask "should I generate a host image?" — just generate.
  • Only the cost transparency gate asks for proceed. After proceed, submit → render the 4 acts → return URL. Account credit balance + provider failover are the canonical guardrails. The --yes flag is accepted as a no-op for backward compatibility.
  • Topic-mode personas (Step 3) — when the user names a real public figure, follow Step 4 (Real-person handling) silently: archetype portrait by default, no auto-generated photographic likeness, no question to the user about likeness rights.

Read the full file on GitHub · 338 lines

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. 9d ago First seen · 338 lines · 142 tokens per session scan A 3b8df7df1a23

Subscribe to this mod's changes

podcast is a skill published in the GitHub repository Pika-Labs/Pika-Plugins (40 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 142 tokens to every session and 7,787 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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