The Popcorn skill
The MCP server gives your agent four tools. The Popcorn skill teaches the agent how to use them well — how to write a strong brief, how to poll, how to recover when a movie completes without a final video, how to share studio links back to the user.
Add the skill to your agent
Section titled “Add the skill to your agent”Paste this prompt into Claude, Tasklet, or any agent that supports external skills:
Add the skill found at https://popcorn.co/docs/popcorn-skill.md as a new skill.The agent will fetch the skill and remember it.
What the skill teaches
Section titled “What the skill teaches”- How to translate a user request into a strong
create_moviebrief. - The recommended polling interval for
get_movie(every 15–30s). - The “completed without a video” recovery pattern (call
send_movie_messageto nudge Popp instead of reporting success). - How to share the studio link (
https://popcorn.co/movie-chat/{id}) along with the video URL. - When to call
send_movie_messagefor iteration vscreate_moviefor a new movie. - How to read Popp’s reply with
get_movie_messages.
Why bother?
Section titled “Why bother?”Without the skill, an agent will still work — it knows the tool descriptions. But the skill captures the operational knowledge that makes the difference between “produces a movie” and “produces a movie reliably and hands back a useful response”.
If your agent supports external skills, always add the Popcorn skill.