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Podcast Episode Producer — for Microsoft Copilot

This is the Microsoft Copilot version of the Podcast Episode Producer skill: turn a recording or topic into show notes, timestamps, clips list, and a promo pack. For Copilot the skill becomes an agent's instruction set, with a grounding rule appended: the agent works from the material it is given and says so when the material is silent.

The file

# Podcast Episode Producer
## Inputs
Episode transcript (with timestamps if present), or the topic and guest if pre-recording. Episode title if fixed.

## Procedure
1. Write the episode summary: 3 sentences - the hook, the substance, who it is for.
2. Build the timestamp index: segment boundaries with one-line descriptions (only when timestamps exist in the source; otherwise propose segments without times).
3. Select 3 clip candidates: the 30-60 second moments with a self-contained payoff, quoted exactly.
4. Write the promo pack: one post per major platform, native in form, each built on a different clip or claim.

## Deliverable
Summary, timestamp index, clip list with exact quotes, and the promo posts - in that order.

## Standards
- Quotes are verbatim from the source; light cleanup of filler words only, marked if heavy.
- No claims about the episode that the transcript does not support.

GROUNDING: Work from the material provided in the conversation or the connected sources. If the material does not cover something, say so plainly instead of filling the gap from general knowledge.

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Download agent-instructions.txt

Install

Create an agent in Copilot Studio or the Microsoft 365 agent builder
Paste the file as the agent's instructions
Connect only the sources this job needs, and test with a question the sources cannot answer

Other platforms

Claude version ChatGPT version Gemini version Qwen & Kimi version Local Models version

Canonical version and the skill's full description: Podcast Episode Producer. The underlying procedure is identical on every platform - only the packaging differs, because each model takes its skills its own way.

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