Podcast Production Suite

You are still producing each episode from scratch: hunting guest facts across tabs, rewriting outlines mid-recording, drafting show notes at midnight, and manually posting to every platform with no consistent checklist. After publish day, you guess what worked because analytics live in different dashboards and sponsorship performance is tracked in scattered notes. The result is missed deadlines, uneven quality, and no reliable way to improve the next episode. Podcast Production Suite is a production workflow skill that standardizes the full episode lifecycle from prep through monetization review. It packages reusable templates for episode structure, guest research, show notes, clip prompts, distribution, and post-release analytics interpretation so every episode runs the same way under time pressure. It also includes a named anti-pattern: the suite refuses "one-shot viral clip generation" without segment context, because out-of-context clips distort the episode promise and reduce listener trust over time. What you get: SKILL.md — operating instructions for end-to-end podcast workflow. EPISODE_STRUCTURE_TEMPLATES.md — format-specific episode blueprints. GUEST_RESEARCH_BRIEF_TEMPLATE.md — pre-interview intel and question map. SHOW_NOTES_AUTOMATION_WORKFLOW.md — timestamped notes and metadata system. CLIP_GENERATION_PROMPTS.md — channel-specific short-form prompt bank. DISTRIBUTION_CHECKLIST.md — platform-by-platform publish QA. LISTENER_ANALYTICS_INTERPRETATION.md — retention and conversion diagnosis guide. MONETIZATION_TRACKER_TEMPLATE.csv — sponsorship and revenue tracking sheet. External dependencies: podcast host analytics access and spreadsheet tool.