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
```http
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.