The Popcorn skill

The MCP server gives your agent tools for creating movies, polling progress, sending follow-up messages, checking account state, and searching reusable elements. 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, and how to bring existing characters, props, and sets into a movie.

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.

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What the skill teaches

How to translate a user request into a strong create_movie brief.
How to use search_elements when a user mentions an existing/global element or @ reference, and how to browse available elements when the user has not named one yet.
How to pass selected characters, props, and sets as tagged_elements to create_movie or send_movie_message.
The recommended polling interval for get_movie (every 15–30s).
The “completed without a video” recovery pattern (call send_movie_message to nudge Popp instead of reporting success).
How to share the studio link (https://popcorn.co/studio/{id}) along with the video URL.
When to call send_movie_message for iteration vs create_movie for a new movie.
How to read Popp’s reply with get_movie_messages.

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.