version: "1.0.1" name: 'Make Podcast' description: 'Two saved characters recording a podcast in ONE room — the camera cuts to whoever is speaking, and each actor stays in their IDENTICAL seat, desk and mic position across every cut. Provide character_a and character_b (saved char_… ids from list_characters, or https image URLs) and an ordered script of A/B dialogue turns (each { speaker: "A" | "B", line: "…" }). The pipeline renders ONE shared two-shot, locks a close-up per actor, animates every turn with native lip-synced Seedance voice (each actor keeps a consistent look AND voice across the whole episode), and hard-cuts the turns together as a 9:16 vertical video. Long turns auto-split into ≤15s takes. Captions are OPT-IN — ask the user first, then set subtitles:true.' allowed-tools: ['mcp__agent-media__make_podcast'] x-skill-slug: 'make_podcast' x-skill-version: '1.0.0' x-primitive: 'composed:make_podcast' x-mcp-tool: 'mcp__agent-media__make_podcast'

Make Podcast

Two saved characters recording a podcast in ONE room — the camera cuts to whoever is speaking, and each actor stays in their IDENTICAL seat, desk and mic position across every cut. Provide character_a and character_b (saved char_… ids from list_characters, or https image URLs) and an ordered script of A/B dialogue turns (each { speaker: "A" | "B", line: "…" }). The pipeline renders ONE shared two-shot, locks a close-up per actor, animates every turn with native lip-synced Seedance voice (each actor keeps a consistent look AND voice across the whole episode), and hard-cuts the turns together as a 9:16 vertical video. Long turns auto-split into ≤15s takes. Captions are OPT-IN — ask the user first, then set subtitles:true.

When to use this

Call this skill when the user asks for the outcome described above. It runs on the agent-media vNext primitive runtime via the mcp__agent-media__make_podcast MCP tool. Authentication is the user's existing agent-media Bearer token (issued by agent-media login).

How to call it

Preferred path: MCP tool mcp__agent-media__make_podcast. Schema is auto-published via tools/list against the same MCP server, so don't restate the schema here — trust the server's response.

Fallback path: REST.

POST https://api.agent-media.ai/v1/skills/make_podcast/run
Authorization: Bearer $AGENT_MEDIA_API_KEY
Content-Type: application/json
Idempotency-Key: <any unique string per intent>
 
{
  "character_a": "char_… (a saved character_id from list_characters, or a character_sheet_url)",
  "character_b": "char_… (a DIFFERENT saved character)",
  "script": [
    {
      "speaker": "A",
      "line": "Welcome back to the show — today we are talking AI video."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "B",
      "line": "Honestly I have been waiting all week for this one."
    }
  ],
  "room": "a cozy wood-panelled podcast studio with warm lamps"
}

What it costs and how long it takes

• Credits: per-take: 140/280/420 per 5s/10s/15s take, summed across every A/B turn (+15 if subtitles); the master scene + both close-ups are free
• Wall time (typical): 360–1400s
• Deducted at submit.

Polling the result

GET https://api.agent-media.ai/v1/skills/runs/<skill_run_id>
Authorization: Bearer $AGENT_MEDIA_API_KEY

Returns per-step status with intermediate artifact URLs as each primitive completes.

House rules baked into this skill

• See reference/realism-rubric.md for the realism doctrine baked into every prompt.
• See reference/auth.md for first-time install and agent-media login.

Source of truth

This file is auto-generated by scripts/generate-public-skill.ts from the registry at services/api-v2/src/skills/registry.ts. Do not hand-edit; CI rejects drift.