draft-clips

A tool for selecting short, self-contained moments from a PodMule podcast episode and saving them as draft clips. PodMule is a podcast service, and a transcript is the written record of an episode’s spoken words.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find strong stories, claims, disagreements, or other moments for clips, shorts, and social posts.
Why use it?
It helps turn a long recording into a small set of social-media-ready candidates based on what was actually said, with timestamps for cutting.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the podmule plugin — 5 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

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/squared-lemons-ltd/podmule-plugin/draft-clips
Any agent
npx skills add Squared-Lemons-Ltd/podmule-plugin --skill draft-clips
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Squared-Lemons-Ltd/podmule-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install podmule, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 1 MCP server.

Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 558 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 $0.00049 $0.00558
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00279
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00112
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00056

Measured 2d ago against content hash a52a5b1ae944, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

draft-clips 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 2d 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.

plugins/podmule/skills/draft-clips/SKILL.md · 35 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 35 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Draft clips from an episode

A clip in PodMule is a short piece of content hung off an episode, headed for social distribution. This skill turns a recording into a set of draft clips grounded in what was actually said.

Find the moments before writing anything

The transcript is the source. search_transcripts scoped to the episode surfaces candidate moments; get_transcript_window expands each hit into the surrounding section with timestamps, which is what tells you whether a moment stands on its own or only makes sense after three minutes of setup.

What makes a good clip is a self-contained turn: a claim, a story with a beginning, a disagreement, a number that lands. What makes a bad one is a moment that needs the preceding question to parse. The timestamps are the honest test — if the interesting sentence starts thirty seconds into a window that only makes sense from the top, the clip is the whole window or it is nothing.

Aim for a handful of strong candidates rather than an exhaustive list. Five clips someone will actually cut beats twenty they have to triage.

Write from the transcript, not around it

Each clip carries a title and a description. Both should come from what was said. A title that paraphrases the actual line is findable later; a title that describes the episode generically is not.

Record where the moment is — the timestamp belongs in the description, because whoever cuts the video needs it and nothing else in the clip record carries it.

Create them as drafts

create_clip needs the episode id and a title, and takes description, tags and an external link. Clips land in draft state, which is the right place to leave them: the person whose show it is decides what ships.

Confirm the set with the user before creating, and show them the titles and timestamps rather than a count. Creating ten clips someone did not want is a mess to undo one at a time.

update_clip revises one afterwards. schedule_clip moves a clip to authorised with a publish time — that is a publishing decision, so it needs an explicit ask, not an inference from enthusiasm.

Read the full file on GitHub · 35 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. 2d ago First seen · 35 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A a52a5b1ae944

Subscribe to this mod's changes

draft-clips is a skill published in the GitHub repository Squared-Lemons-Ltd/podmule-plugin (0 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 558 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 2026-08-31.

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