episode-concept-generator

episode-concept-generator is a skill for Claude Code from ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills. It costs 44 tokens per session (1,872 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A podcast planning tool that creates 6–8 episode ideas matched to a show's topic, format, and audience. Each idea includes a title, premise, guest or source approach, and central listener question.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for planning interview, solo, narrative, roundtable, or mixed-format podcast episodes and finding new angles on a subject.
Why use it?
It helps when obvious topics are exhausted or a new show needs a useful starting content calendar.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the autopunk-media-skills plugin — 187 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for planning interview, solo, narrative, roundtable, or mixed-format podcast episodes and finding new angles on a subject.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills/episode-concept-generator
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills --skill episode-concept-generator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install autopunk-media-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 187 skills.

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,872 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 $0.00044 $0.01872
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00936
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00374
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00187

Measured 8d ago against content hash 6d49364683b4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

episode-concept-generator 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 8d 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/pre-production/episode-concept-generator/SKILL.md · 121 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Episode Concept Generator

What This Skill Does

Generates 6–8 fully developed episode concepts aligned to a podcast's format, theme, and audience — each with a title, premise, guest or source approach, and core listener question.

When To Use This Skill

  • You are planning a new content batch and need episode ideas that fit your show's established format
  • You have run out of obvious angles on your core topic and need fresh conceptual territory
  • You are launching a new podcast and need to populate your first content calendar
  • You want to see which unexplored corners of your subject area could generate strong episodes

What You Need To Provide

Required: Podcast name and topic focus; target audience; episode format (interview, solo, narrative, roundtable, hybrid); approximate episode length Optional: 3–5 recent episodes you have already done (so the assistant can avoid repeating them); any themes or angles you want to explore but haven't found the right angle for; whether you want seasonal/thematic concepts or standalone episodes; guest-based or topic-based preference

How the Assistant Approaches This

  1. Maps the topic space of the podcast — the full range of subjects, perspectives, and audience questions that are relevant but not necessarily obvious
  2. Identifies under-explored angles: the contrarian take, the practitioner perspective, the historical origin story, the failure case, the audience question that goes unasked in most episodes on this topic
  3. Generates concepts across different episode types: the debate episode, the deep-dive explainer, the personal story, the expert interview, the myth-busting episode, and the "what no one talks about" episode
  4. For each concept, specifies the core listener question (what the audience will have answered by the end), the ideal guest or source profile, and one hook sentence for a show notes description
  5. Closes with a "Next Step" recommendation: which concept to book first based on guest accessibility, and whether to run guest-research-brief or interview-question-builder as the immediate next skill

Read the full file on GitHub · 121 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. 8d ago First seen · 121 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 6d49364683b4

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episode-concept-generator is a skill published in the GitHub repository ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills (32 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 1,872 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 2026-09-04.

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