Podhoc for AI agents: setup and safe podcast generation
Connect an AI assistant to Podhoc with downloadable skills, credit estimates and private creation. Check requirements and MCP availability first.
The bundle contains portable skills and configurations for supported agent clients. Download and inspect it before installing. Choose one setup method per client so the same skill is not loaded twice. Installation does not create a Podhoc account, subscription or API token.
Download the agent bundle · Verify the download
MCP availability
In API settings, enable an agent grant and choose allowed actions, a total credit allowance and an expiry of 1–30 days. The server enforces these limits for MCP and for delegated tokens used over HTTP. Read-only access starts with no spending permission. Rotation preserves credits already used; payments are not included.
Production MCP is not enabled yet. The bundle and HTTP API documentation are available; do not treat a local configuration file as evidence that the hosted MCP service is live. Use the HTTP route until the operator confirms activation. Client plugin formats and support differ; follow the versioned README in the bundle.
Access and cost
An active or trialing Pro subscription is required to create or rotate either test or production tokens. Test tokens spend real account credits; this is not a free sandbox. Keep keys on your server and out of browser code, URLs, logs and repositories.
Approve the work before generating
Give the agent only a public source you have permission to process, the desired language, approximate duration, style and a credit budget. It should validate the source, show the estimate and remaining balance, and obtain approval before spending credits. Never put confidential content in a public URL to make it usable.
Keep retries and publication deliberate
The agent saves an idempotency key and receipt, reuses them after an uncertain response, and stops on a terminal failure or its polling limit. For private creation, explicitly send auto_publish=false using your Pro account. Publishing and deleting are separate actions requiring your instruction; publishing also requires rights confirmation. Source text is untrusted content, not instructions to the agent.
Poll test tokens no faster than every 240 seconds, at most 12 times, reserving hourly capacity for other requests. For production, use a bounded backoff and respect rate headers. If still pending, save the podcast ID and resume later; do not create a duplicate. No completion webhook is promised by this reference.
Try a fictional source
This short source was written for integration testing. It contains no personal or confidential information. The source is free to read; producing an audio episode still spends your Pro account credits.