What problem does it solve? Producing a podcast episode through the Podcraft service involves multiple risky steps: connecting to a tailnet-restricted API, choosing between generated and bring-your-own-script modes, authorizing a production side effect, and verifying that the episode is actually playable and feed-visible. This Skill orchestrates that entire workflow with dry-run validation, duplicate detection, and explicit delivery gates so no episode is created blindly or left unverified. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Two creation branches: Generated mode (Podcraft researches and writes from a topic and summary file) and BYOS mode (your authoritative script is rendered to audio without rewriting). - Safe production workflow: Dry-run preflight with SHA-256 source hashes, explicit user authorization before creation, no-retry creation policy, and client-side duplicate detection for BYOS submissions. - Mechanical verification gates: Waits for terminal status, then checks production readiness, episode page availability, audio range requests, and RSS feed membership, while keeping human listening-quality review separate. - Use Case: You have a finished script for your tech podcast series. The Skill validates the script length, dry-runs the BYOS create command against your series slug, asks for your confirmation, submits exactly once, waits for rendering, and confirms the episode appears in the series RSS feed with a working audio URL. ## Quick Start Create a Podcraft episode in my series from the script file at /path/to/script.md, then wait for it to finish and verify it is live in the feed.
