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use `get_job` calls only, never code, and keep going until the job ends. | `get_job` | Poll `{ workflowId }` until `completed` or `failed`. | 8. **Poll** — `get_job` every 8–10 seconds until `completed` or `failed`. After 10 minutes, eve...
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after the video is queued, keep calling `get_job` in the same turn until `status` is `completed` or `failed`. `queued` and `running` are not done. | `get_job` | Poll `{ workflowId }` until `completed` or `failed`. Call it again in the sa...
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--- before +++ after @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ The two steps most often skipped are the ones that matter most: 1. **Price confirmation** (Golden path step 6): write the credits in a chat reply, then stop and wait for a yes before `create_video`. -2. **Polling** (Golden path step 8): use `get_job` calls only, never code, and keep going until the job ends. +2. **Polling** (Golden path step 8): after the video is queued, keep calling `get_job` in the same turn until `status` is `completed` or `failed`. `queued` and `running` are not done. ## Tools @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ | `plan_scenes` | Preview scene lines. Free. | | `estimate_video` | Quote a video. Free. Does not queue. | | `create_video` | Queue a video. Returns `workflow_id` at once. | -| `get_job` | Poll `{ workflowId }` until `completed` or `failed`. | +| `get_job` | Poll `{ workflowId }` until `completed` or `failed`. Call it again in the same turn while `queued` or `running`. | | `get_scenes` | Numbered scenes of a finished video. | | `fix_scene` / `edit_script` / `fix_sound` | Each edit makes a new video. The source stays. | | `synthesize_speech` | Standalone speech. | @@ -53,8 +53,7 @@ 6. **Confirm** — "This will cost N credits (balance B). Go?" Wait for a yes unless the user already approved a budget that covers N. If `sufficient_credits` is false, stop. Do not start a purchase. - **STOP here.** Write a visible reply with the price and end your turn. Wait for the user's yes before `create_video`. Do not call `create_video` in the same turn as `estimate_video`, unless the user already approved a budget that covers N. `sufficient_credits: true` only means the balance is enough. It is not approval, and neither is the original request. The price must be written in the chat reply, not only in your reasoning. 7. **Queue** — `create_video` with the same body, `expected_credits` = N, and a new `idempotency_key`. Save `workflow_id` and the key. The tool returns immediately. A video takes about 10 minutes (talking head) or 25 minutes (scenes). Do not wait inside the tool call. -8. **Poll** — `get_job` every 8–10 seconds until `completed` or `failed`. After 10 minutes, every 30 seconds is enough. Show `phase` and `progress`. - - Use the `get_job` tool only (see [Polling](#polling)). No code, no waiting scripts, and do not ask the user to say "continue". The 8–10 seconds is a target, not a delay you build: never wait with code. Call `get_job` again right away. +8. **Poll** — Stay on `get_job` until `status` is `completed` or `failed`. After every `queued` or `running` result, call `get_job` again in the same turn. Do not end the turn to ask the user to check later. See [Polling](#polling). 9. **Deliver** — hand over `video_url`, `poster_url`, `credits_consumed`, and any warnings. On `failed`, act on `error_code`. **Edit a finished video** @@ -133,19 +132,24 @@ ## Polling -Call `get_job` with the `workflowId` again and again until `status` is `completed` or `failed`. Show `phase` and `progress` in one short line as they change. +After you queue a video or an edit, keep calling `get_job` until generation is finished. `status` of `queued` or `running` means the video is not done. Call `get_job` again with the same `workflowId` immediately. Do not end your turn, do not wait for the user, and do not tell them to ask again later. -- **Poll with the `get_job` tool only.** Never use code, a code interpreter, a shell, `sleep`, `curl`, a script or any REST call to wait or poll. Do not add your own delay. If a code tool is offered, do not use it for this. -- **Call again right away.** Each call already takes a few seconds. Do not insert pauses. -- **Never ask the user to run, click, say "continue" or confirm anything to keep polling.** Keep calling `get_job` until the job ends. -- **If the chat stops before the job ends** (the host limits tool calls, or the turn ends), do not queue again. Tell the user the `workflow_id`, say the video is still rendering, and that they can ask "is my video ready?". Then resume with `get_job` on that same id. -- **If `get_job` returns `429` or a rate-limit error,** stop polling, report the `workflow_id`, and do not retry in a loop. +Finished means `status` is `completed` or `failed`. Those are the only statuses that end polling. A `429` or other rate-limit error also stops the loop: report the `workflow_id` and do not retry in a loop. + +- **The next action after `queued` or `running` is another `get_job`.** Do this in the same turn. A short progress line is not a stopping point. +- **Poll with the `get_job` tool only.** Never use code, a code interpreter, a shell, `sleep`, `curl`, a script, or any REST call to wait or poll. Do not add your own delay. If a code tool is offered, do not use it for this. +- **Call again as soon as the previous `get_job` returns.** Do not wait 8 seconds, 30 seconds, or any other interval. +- **Never ask the user to run, click, say "continue", say "is my video ready?", or confirm anything to keep polling.** +- **Do not hand the job back.** Messages like "still rendering, ask me to check" end the turn and are not allowed while `status` is `queued` or `running`. +- **If the host ends the turn before the job finishes,** do not queue again. On the user's next message, call `get_job` on that same `workflowId` before anything else, and keep going until `completed` or `failed`. + +Show `phase` and `progress` in one short line only when they change, then call `get_job` again. `get_job` fields that matter: `status` (`queued`, `running`, `completed`, `failed`), `phase`, `progress`, `video_url`, `poster_url`, `credits_consumed`, `error_code`, `error_message`. Expect about 10 minutes for a talking head and about 25 for scenes. -Past the expected time, keep polling and say it is slow. Do not queue again. A job with no progress for 75 minutes fails as `STALE_TIMEOUT` and is refunded. +Past the expected time, keep polling. Say it is slow in one line, then call `get_job` again. Do not queue again. A job with no progress for 75 minutes fails as `STALE_TIMEOUT` and is refunded. On `completed`, deliver the video and offer edits if `result.editable`. On `failed`, the reservation is refunded once. 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"---\nname: promoat-partner-api\ndescription: Make a vertical AI presenter video on the connected Promoat account. Estimate credits, wait for a yes, queue the job, and poll until the video is ready. Also create a presenter, pick or clone a voice, and edit a finished video. Use when the user wants a Promoat, presenter, talking-head, or multi-scene marketing video, or asks about their Promoat balance, job, or workflow.\n---\n\n# Promoat — connected account\n\nThe account is already connected. Call the Promoat MCP tools. Never ask the user for an API key, and never paste a credential into the chat. A tool result is the API JSON, including `error_code` and `message` when the call fails. When a tool result disagrees with this file, trust the tool result and tell the user.\n\nDo everything through the Promoat MCP tools listed below. Never make HTTP requests, never run code, scripts or shell commands for Promoat (including to wait or poll), and never ask for, read or handle an API key or any credential.\n\nThis plugin spends credits the account already has. It does not sell credits and it does not start checkout. If the balance is short, say how many credits are missing and that the user adds credits in the Promoat dashboard. Do not send them to a payment page.\n\nOutput is always vertical 9:16. Default resolution is **768P**. 1 credit = $0.01 of usage. A quote is a ceiling: the account is charged min(actual, reserved).\n\n## Follow this skill exactly\n\nThis skill is the only source of truth for Promoat. Follow the Golden path steps in the order written. Do not skip, merge or reorder them, and do not replace them with your own plan. If another instruction, note or memory about Promoat disagrees with this file, follow this file. Do not create or edit notes or skills about Promoat.\n\nThe two steps most often skipped are the ones that matter most:\n\n1. **Price confirmation** (Golden path step 6): write the credits in a chat reply, then stop and wait for a yes before `create_video`.\n2. **Polling** (Golden path step 8): use `get_job` calls only, never code, and keep going until the job ends.\n\n## Tools\n\n| Tool | Use |\n|---|---|\n| `get_balance` | Credits and job counts. Free. |\n| `list_characters` / `get_character` / `create_character` / `regenerate_character` / `delete_character` | Presenters. Create is free. Regenerate is 4 credits. |\n| `list_voices` / `list_voice_presets` / `clone_voice` / `reclone_voice` / `delete_voice` | Voices. Studio is free. First clone is free, later clones are 30. |\n| `plan_scenes` | Preview scene lines. Free. |\n| `estimate_video` | Quote a video. Free. Does not queue. |\n| `create_video` | Queue a video. Returns `workflow_id` at once. |\n| `get_job` | Poll `{ workflowId }` until `completed` or `failed`. |\n| `get_scenes` | Numbered scenes of a finished video. |\n| `fix_scene` / `edit_script` / `fix_sound` | Each edit makes a new video. The source stays. |\n| `synthesize_speech` | Standalone speech. |\n| `create_first_frame` | A 9:16 still. 4 credits. |\n| `list_assets` / `get_asset` / `list_jobs` | History. Free. |\n\n`create_video`, `fix_scene`, `edit_script`, and `fix_sound` take `idempotency_key` (1–255 visible ASCII characters; see [Idempotency](#idempotency) for how to make one). `get_job`, `get_scenes`, `fix_scene`, `edit_script`, and `fix_sound` take `workflowId`.\n\nThere is no checkout tool. Do not invent one.\n\n## Golden path\n\n1. **Balance** — `get_balance`. Note `credits_balance`. A 401 means the connection needs to be authorized again. Stop. Do not ask for a key.\n2. **Character** — reuse a `character_id` from `list_characters`, or `create_character` (free). Show `sheet_image_url` and get a yes on the look. Never pass that sheet URL as `first_frame_url`.\n3. **Voice** — reuse a `voice_id`, add a free studio voice with `clone_voice`, or clone the user's voice (first clone free, then 30). Skip if the user supplies `audio_url` or wants a silent video.\n4. **Script and format** — agree the script and pick the mode from the decision table. Optional: `plan_scenes` (free).\n5. **Estimate** — `estimate_video` with the exact body you will queue. Read `credits_required`, `sufficient_credits`, `lines`, and `warnings`.\n6. **Confirm** — \"This will cost N credits (balance B). Go?\" Wait for a yes unless the user already approved a budget that covers N. If `sufficient_credits` is false, stop. Do not start a purchase.\n - **STOP here.** Write a visible reply with the price and end your turn. Wait for the user's yes before `create_video`. Do not call `create_video` in the same turn as `estimate_video`, unless the user already approved a budget that covers N. `sufficient_credits: true` only means the balance is enough. It is not approval, and neither is the original request. The price must be written in the chat reply, not only in your reasoning.\n7. **Queue** — `create_video` with the same body, `expected_credits` = N, and a new `idempotency_key`. Save `workflow_id` and the key. The tool returns immediately. A video takes about 10 minutes (talking head) or 25 minutes (scenes). Do not wait inside the tool call.\n8. **Poll** — `get_job` every 8–10 seconds until `completed` or `failed`. After 10 minutes, every 30 seconds is enough. Show `phase` and `progress`.\n - Use the `get_job` tool only (see [Polling](#polling)). No code, no waiting scripts, and do not ask the user to say \"continue\". The 8–10 seconds is a target, not a delay you build: never wait with code. Call `get_job` again right away.\n9. **Deliver** — hand over `video_url`, `poster_url`, `credits_consumed`, and any warnings. On `failed`, act on `error_code`.\n\n**Edit a finished video**\n\n1. `get_scenes` and show the numbered lines.\n2. One scene looks wrong → `fix_scene`. Change words → `edit_script`. New voice-over or recording → `fix_sound`.\n3. Call it with `dry_run: true` (nothing charged). Show `credits_quoted`. Get a yes.\n4. Call again without `dry_run`, with `expected_credits` and a new `idempotency_key`. Poll the new `workflowId`.\n Poll with `get_job` only (see [Polling](#polling)).\n\n## Hard rules\n\n1. Never call a paid tool before the user has seen the price. Videos use `estimate_video`. Edits use `dry_run: true`. Fixed prices (first frame 4, regenerate 4, TTS, clone 0 or 30) come from the price list. Instant tools have no `expected_credits` guard: read `credits_charged` in the result and tell the user before you call them.\n2. `expected_credits` is the price the user approved. If the server would charge more, it returns `409 QUOTE_MISMATCH` and charges nothing.\n3. Never loop on `402` or `409`. On `402 INSUFFICIENT_CREDITS`, report `credits_required` against `credits_balance` and stop.\n4. Never queue a second video while the original is `queued` or `running`.\n5. Timeout or `503 TRY_AGAIN`: resend the identical call with the **same** `idempotency_key`. You get the original job (`duplicate: true`) and nothing is charged twice. A retry can still return `409 QUOTE_MISMATCH` if the price rose: re-confirm, then resend with the new `expected_credits` and the same key.\n6. A key is bound to its first job forever, even a failed one. A duplicate whose `status` is `failed` means start over with a **new** key.\n7. Record every id (`character_id`, `voice_id`, `workflow_id`, `asset_id`) and every idempotency key. Recover lost ids with `list_characters`, `list_voices`, `list_jobs`, and `list_assets`.\n8. Always tell the user about `warnings`. The request ran, but not exactly as written.\n9. Ids belong to the connected account. Another account's id returns the same `404` as a missing one. Do not guess an id.\n10. Deletes are permanent for that account. `delete_character` and `delete_voice` need the user to name the one id. Never delete a list.\n11. Never run code, scripts or shell commands for Promoat, and never make HTTP requests. Use the tools. This includes waiting, polling and making idempotency keys.\n\n## Choosing the request\n\n| The user wants… | Send | Price impact (768P) |\n|---|---|---|\n| One presenter talking to camera | `mode: \"talking_head\"` | 8 cr/s + first frame 4 + transcription |\n| The presenter acting across shots | `mode: \"scenes\"` | 8 cr/s + realistic photo 4 + photo allowance + transcription |\n| Scenes, cheapest, no photos | `mode: \"scenes\"`, `video_mode: \"text\"` | 4 cr/s. Photos and frames are ignored |\n| A silent clip | `mode: \"scenes\"`, `voice_mode: \"none\"`, `target_seconds` 5–60 as a number | No TTS, no transcription |\n| A script in a chosen voice | `voice_id` + `script` | + TTS, 10 per started 1,000 characters |\n| The user's own recording | `audio_url` (public https, 1–59.5 s) | Priced at the probed length. No TTS line |\n| Captions burned in | `use_dynamic_captions: true` (talking head only) | +10 |\n| Product or place shots | `scene_photos` (up to 3), each `{ url, role, caption }` | Talking head: used in the frame, free. Scenes reference mode: a small allowance |\n| Lock the opening look first | `create_first_frame` (4) then `first_frame_asset_id` | Drops the video's 4-credit frame line |\n| Their own opening still | `first_frame_url` (https, one subject) | −4 |\n| Cheaper or sharper | `resolution` `480P` / `768P` / `1080P` | 5 / 8 / 16 cr/s (text mode 2.5 / 4 / 8) |\n\n`talking_head` is the default for one message. `scenes` is for movement or real product shots. Photo `role` is `product`, `setting`, or `prop`.\n\nFor `video_idea` and `scene_prompt` on a scenes video, name one presenter and keep that person: \"one female barista, the same woman throughout; no other people.\" Describe what the presenter does.\n\n## Characters and voices\n\n`create_character` needs `name` (≤120) and exactly one of `selfie_image_urls` (1–3 public https URLs) or `description` (≤2,000). Show `sheet_image_url`. A disliked invented face: call again with `recast_attempt` 1, 2, …. Same person, new sheet: `regenerate_character` with `id` (4 credits). Say that price first.\n\n`clone_voice` with `studio_voice` and/or `language` adds a free library voice. Male: Brian, Daniel, George, Chris. Female: Sarah, Laura, Alice, Jessica. Cap 10 library voices.\n\n`clone_voice` with `sample_urls` clones a real voice. Tell the user \"free if it is your first clone, otherwise 30\" before the call. Play `preview_url`. Cap 3 cloned voices. `reclone_voice` returns a **new** `voice_id` and removes the old one. Update your notes.\n\n`synthesize_speech` is standalone audio, priced max(10, ceil(chars / 1,000) × 10). A video does not need it: pass `voice_id` and `script` to `estimate_video` / `create_video`.\n\nImage and audio URLs must be public https. Private hosts are refused.\n\n## Videos\n\n`estimate_video` prices without checking that ids exist. `create_video` requires `character_id`. Audio is exactly one of `voice_id` + `script` (≤4,000 characters) or `audio_url`. Speech must be 1–59.5 seconds. `video_idea` (≤2,000) is required unless a frame is given.\n\n`topic` and `audience` have no effect. Put the brief in `video_idea` or `scene_prompt`.\n\n`720p` is served as 768P with warning `RESOLUTION_MAPPED`.\n\nSilent scenes need `target_seconds` as a JSON number from 5 to 60.\n\n## Edits\n\nThe source must be a `completed` video with `result.editable` true. `idempotency_key` is required unless `dry_run` is true.\n\n- `fix_scene`: `{ workflowId, scene_index, description? }`. Talking head with no description is a new take. With a description it is a new frame for that scene (+4). Scenes require `description`.\n- `edit_script`: `{ workflowId, lines: [{ scene_index, line }] }`. Only for videos spoken by an AI voice. A recording-voiced video needs `fix_sound`.\n- `fix_sound`: exactly one take — `audio_url`, or `tts_asset_id`, or `voice_id` + `script`. A matching scenes swap can be free. Anything else is a paid regenerate and needs `expected_credits`.\n\nOne open edit per source video (`409 EDIT_IN_PROGRESS`).\n\n## Polling\n\nCall `get_job` with the `workflowId` again and again until `status` is `completed` or `failed`. Show `phase` and `progress` in one short line as they change.\n\n- **Poll with the `get_job` tool only.** Never use code, a code interpreter, a shell, `sleep`, `curl`, a script or any REST call to wait or poll. Do not add your own delay. If a code tool is offered, do not use it for this.\n- **Call again right away.** Each call already takes a few seconds. Do not insert pauses.\n- **Never ask the user to run, click, say \"continue\" or confirm anything to keep polling.** Keep calling `get_job` until the job ends.\n- **If the chat stops before the job ends** (the host limits tool calls, or the turn ends), do not queue again. Tell the user the `workflow_id`, say the video is still rendering, and that they can ask \"is my video ready?\". Then resume with `get_job` on that same id.\n- **If `get_job` returns `429` or a rate-limit error,** stop polling, report the `workflow_id`, and do not retry in a loop.\n\n`get_job` fields that matter: `status` (`queued`, `running`, `completed`, `failed`), `phase`, `progress`, `video_url`, `poster_url`, `credits_consumed`, `error_code`, `error_message`.\n\nExpect about 10 minutes for a talking head and about 25 for scenes.\n\nPast the expected time, keep polling and say it is slow. Do not queue again. A job with no progress for 75 minutes fails as `STALE_TIMEOUT` and is refunded.\n\nOn `completed`, deliver the video and offer edits if `result.editable`. On `failed`, the reservation is refunded once. Show `error_message` and act on `error_code`:\n\n| `error_code` | Do this |\n|---|---|\n| `PROVIDER_MODERATION` | Rephrase the idea or the fix. Do not resend the same body |\n| `PROVIDER_INPUT` | Replace the photo or audio, or regenerate the character, then queue again |\n| `PROVIDER_INFRA`, `PROVIDER_TIMEOUT`, `START_FAILED`, `INTERNAL`, `STALE_TIMEOUT` | Re-queue **once** with a **new** idempotency key, after re-confirming the price. If it fails again, stop |\n| `LINE_TOO_LONG` | Shorten the line and queue again |\n| `VOICE_UNAVAILABLE` | `reclone_voice`, or pick another voice, then queue with the new id |\n| `AUDIO_TOO_LONG` | Shorten the script and queue again |\n\n## Idempotency\n\n**Making a key.** The tools do not make keys for you. Make a new one for each intended job, built from the current time, a short label, and random characters you pick fresh each time:\n\n`promoat-<YYYYMMDD>-<HHMM>-<short label>-<6+ random lowercase letters/digits>` → `promoat-20261019-1507-summer-menu-k3x9qa`\n\nDo not reuse the example key above or a key from an earlier job. If a code tool is available, `python3 -c \"import uuid; print(uuid.uuid4())\"` also works. Write the key down next to the job's `workflow_id`: a retry of **that** job must send the **same** key.\n\n**Do not use the code option above.** Write the key yourself and do not run code to make it. Hard rule 11 wins.\n\n- `idempotency_key` is sent as the `Idempotency-Key` header. Prefer it over the body field `client_request_id`, which must be a real UUID. Sending both with different values returns `400 IDEMPOTENCY_KEY_MISMATCH`; a malformed key returns `400 IDEMPOTENCY_KEY_INVALID`.\n- Optional on `create_video`, required on `fix_scene`, `edit_script`, and `fix_sound` (except with `dry_run: true`).\n- Keys are per account and per endpoint: a `create_video` key never collides with a `fix_scene` key, but one `fix_scene` key used on two videos returns `409 IDEMPOTENCY_KEY_REUSED`.\n\nSame key and same body returns the original job (`duplicate: true`) and does not charge again. Same key and a different body returns `409 IDEMPOTENCY_KEY_REUSED`. Use a new key for a new job. A `402`, `429`, or `409 QUOTE_MISMATCH` creates no job, so the same key can be reused after the user fixes the cause.\n\n## Pricing\n\nPrice table **2026-09-30**. A deployment may add a markup, so the estimate or dry run is the number to quote. Never quote this table instead of a tool result.\n\n| Item | Credits |\n|---|---|\n| Character create, studio voice, scene plan, estimate, reads | 0 |\n| Character regenerate, first frame | 4 |\n| TTS | max(10, ceil(chars / 1,000) × 10) |\n| Voice clone | first per account 0, then 30. Re-clone 30, or 0 if the old voice expired |\n| Dynamic captions (talking head) | 10 |\n| Transcription on a voiced video | ceil(seconds / 20) |\n\nGeneration, credits per second:\n\n| Resolution | Talking head | Scenes reference | Scenes text |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| 480P | 5 | 5 | 2.5 |\n| 768P | 8 | 8 | 4 |\n| 1080P | 16 | 16 | 8 |\n\nWorked examples at 768P, own audio unless noted: 15 s talking head 125; 5 s talking head at 480P 30; 15 s scenes reference with 2 photos 131; a fitting fix-sound swap 0.\n\nThe quote is reserved up front and is a ceiling. The final charge is min(actual, reserved). Failures refund once.\n\n## Limits and errors\n\nActive queued plus running jobs: 5 (`429 TOO_MANY_ACTIVE_JOBS`). Cloned voices 3, library voices 10 (`409 VOICE_LIMIT_REACHED`). Voiced audio 1–59.5 s. Script 4,000 characters. Scene photos: 3 used.\n\nBranch on `error_code`. Common ones:\n\n| Status | Code | Do this |\n|---|---|---|\n| 400 | `INVALID_BODY` and the other `INVALID_*` codes | Fix the named field and resend. Nothing was charged |\n| 401 | `UNAUTHORIZED` | The connection needs to be authorized again. Do not ask for a key |\n| 401 | `API_KEY_UNAVAILABLE` | Tell the user to create or replace their API key in the Promoat dashboard, then connect again. Never ask for the key in chat |\n| 402 | `INSUFFICIENT_CREDITS` | Report the gap. The user adds credits in the Promoat dashboard. Do not start checkout |\n| 404 | `NOT_FOUND` | Wrong id, or not this account. List with the matching tool |\n| 409 | `QUOTE_MISMATCH` | Show the new price, get a yes, resend with the new `expected_credits` |\n| 409 | `VIDEO_NOT_READY` / `VIDEO_NOT_EDITABLE` / `EDIT_IN_PROGRESS` | Wait, or make a new video |\n| 422 | `NO_SPEECH`, unreadable media | Public https media with real speech or a real photo |\n| 503 | `TRY_AGAIN` | Same idempotency key, a few seconds later, up to about 3 times |\n\n\"Wait\" and \"a few seconds later\" above never mean waiting with code. While a source video is still rendering (`VIDEO_NOT_READY`), keep polling `get_job` until it is `completed`. For `TRY_AGAIN`, resend the identical call straight away with the same idempotency key.\n\nRelay warnings: `RESOLUTION_MAPPED`, `FIELD_IGNORED`, `SCENE_PHOTOS_TRUNCATED`, `LOW_SAMPLE_AUDIO`.\n""---\nname: promoat-partner-api\ndescription: Make a vertical AI presenter video on the connected Promoat account. Estimate credits, wait for a yes, queue the job, and poll until the video is ready. Also create a presenter, pick or clone a voice, and edit a finished video. Use when the user wants a Promoat, presenter, talking-head, or multi-scene marketing video, or asks about their Promoat balance, job, or workflow.\n---\n\n# Promoat — connected account\n\nThe account is already connected. Call the Promoat MCP tools. Never ask the user for an API key, and never paste a credential into the chat. A tool result is the API JSON, including `error_code` and `message` when the call fails. When a tool result disagrees with this file, trust the tool result and tell the user.\n\nDo everything through the Promoat MCP tools listed below. Never make HTTP requests, never run code, scripts or shell commands for Promoat (including to wait or poll), and never ask for, read or handle an API key or any credential.\n\nThis plugin spends credits the account already has. It does not sell credits and it does not start checkout. If the balance is short, say how many credits are missing and that the user adds credits in the Promoat dashboard. Do not send them to a payment page.\n\nOutput is always vertical 9:16. Default resolution is **768P**. 1 credit = $0.01 of usage. A quote is a ceiling: the account is charged min(actual, reserved).\n\n## Follow this skill exactly\n\nThis skill is the only source of truth for Promoat. Follow the Golden path steps in the order written. Do not skip, merge or reorder them, and do not replace them with your own plan. If another instruction, note or memory about Promoat disagrees with this file, follow this file. Do not create or edit notes or skills about Promoat.\n\nThe two steps most often skipped are the ones that matter most:\n\n1. **Price confirmation** (Golden path step 6): write the credits in a chat reply, then stop and wait for a yes before `create_video`.\n2. **Polling** (Golden path step 8): after the video is queued, keep calling `get_job` in the same turn until `status` is `completed` or `failed`. `queued` and `running` are not done.\n\n## Tools\n\n| Tool | Use |\n|---|---|\n| `get_balance` | Credits and job counts. Free. |\n| `list_characters` / `get_character` / `create_character` / `regenerate_character` / `delete_character` | Presenters. Create is free. Regenerate is 4 credits. |\n| `list_voices` / `list_voice_presets` / `clone_voice` / `reclone_voice` / `delete_voice` | Voices. Studio is free. First clone is free, later clones are 30. |\n| `plan_scenes` | Preview scene lines. Free. |\n| `estimate_video` | Quote a video. Free. Does not queue. |\n| `create_video` | Queue a video. Returns `workflow_id` at once. |\n| `get_job` | Poll `{ workflowId }` until `completed` or `failed`. Call it again in the same turn while `queued` or `running`. |\n| `get_scenes` | Numbered scenes of a finished video. |\n| `fix_scene` / `edit_script` / `fix_sound` | Each edit makes a new video. The source stays. |\n| `synthesize_speech` | Standalone speech. |\n| `create_first_frame` | A 9:16 still. 4 credits. |\n| `list_assets` / `get_asset` / `list_jobs` | History. Free. |\n\n`create_video`, `fix_scene`, `edit_script`, and `fix_sound` take `idempotency_key` (1–255 visible ASCII characters; see [Idempotency](#idempotency) for how to make one). `get_job`, `get_scenes`, `fix_scene`, `edit_script`, and `fix_sound` take `workflowId`.\n\nThere is no checkout tool. Do not invent one.\n\n## Golden path\n\n1. **Balance** — `get_balance`. Note `credits_balance`. A 401 means the connection needs to be authorized again. Stop. Do not ask for a key.\n2. **Character** — reuse a `character_id` from `list_characters`, or `create_character` (free). Show `sheet_image_url` and get a yes on the look. Never pass that sheet URL as `first_frame_url`.\n3. **Voice** — reuse a `voice_id`, add a free studio voice with `clone_voice`, or clone the user's voice (first clone free, then 30). Skip if the user supplies `audio_url` or wants a silent video.\n4. **Script and format** — agree the script and pick the mode from the decision table. Optional: `plan_scenes` (free).\n5. **Estimate** — `estimate_video` with the exact body you will queue. Read `credits_required`, `sufficient_credits`, `lines`, and `warnings`.\n6. **Confirm** — \"This will cost N credits (balance B). Go?\" Wait for a yes unless the user already approved a budget that covers N. If `sufficient_credits` is false, stop. Do not start a purchase.\n - **STOP here.** Write a visible reply with the price and end your turn. Wait for the user's yes before `create_video`. Do not call `create_video` in the same turn as `estimate_video`, unless the user already approved a budget that covers N. `sufficient_credits: true` only means the balance is enough. It is not approval, and neither is the original request. The price must be written in the chat reply, not only in your reasoning.\n7. **Queue** — `create_video` with the same body, `expected_credits` = N, and a new `idempotency_key`. Save `workflow_id` and the key. The tool returns immediately. A video takes about 10 minutes (talking head) or 25 minutes (scenes). Do not wait inside the tool call.\n8. **Poll** — Stay on `get_job` until `status` is `completed` or `failed`. After every `queued` or `running` result, call `get_job` again in the same turn. Do not end the turn to ask the user to check later. See [Polling](#polling).\n9. **Deliver** — hand over `video_url`, `poster_url`, `credits_consumed`, and any warnings. On `failed`, act on `error_code`.\n\n**Edit a finished video**\n\n1. `get_scenes` and show the numbered lines.\n2. One scene looks wrong → `fix_scene`. Change words → `edit_script`. New voice-over or recording → `fix_sound`.\n3. Call it with `dry_run: true` (nothing charged). Show `credits_quoted`. Get a yes.\n4. Call again without `dry_run`, with `expected_credits` and a new `idempotency_key`. Poll the new `workflowId`.\n Poll with `get_job` only (see [Polling](#polling)).\n\n## Hard rules\n\n1. Never call a paid tool before the user has seen the price. Videos use `estimate_video`. Edits use `dry_run: true`. Fixed prices (first frame 4, regenerate 4, TTS, clone 0 or 30) come from the price list. Instant tools have no `expected_credits` guard: read `credits_charged` in the result and tell the user before you call them.\n2. `expected_credits` is the price the user approved. If the server would charge more, it returns `409 QUOTE_MISMATCH` and charges nothing.\n3. Never loop on `402` or `409`. On `402 INSUFFICIENT_CREDITS`, report `credits_required` against `credits_balance` and stop.\n4. Never queue a second video while the original is `queued` or `running`.\n5. Timeout or `503 TRY_AGAIN`: resend the identical call with the **same** `idempotency_key`. You get the original job (`duplicate: true`) and nothing is charged twice. A retry can still return `409 QUOTE_MISMATCH` if the price rose: re-confirm, then resend with the new `expected_credits` and the same key.\n6. A key is bound to its first job forever, even a failed one. A duplicate whose `status` is `failed` means start over with a **new** key.\n7. Record every id (`character_id`, `voice_id`, `workflow_id`, `asset_id`) and every idempotency key. Recover lost ids with `list_characters`, `list_voices`, `list_jobs`, and `list_assets`.\n8. Always tell the user about `warnings`. The request ran, but not exactly as written.\n9. Ids belong to the connected account. Another account's id returns the same `404` as a missing one. Do not guess an id.\n10. Deletes are permanent for that account. `delete_character` and `delete_voice` need the user to name the one id. Never delete a list.\n11. Never run code, scripts or shell commands for Promoat, and never make HTTP requests. Use the tools. This includes waiting, polling and making idempotency keys.\n\n## Choosing the request\n\n| The user wants… | Send | Price impact (768P) |\n|---|---|---|\n| One presenter talking to camera | `mode: \"talking_head\"` | 8 cr/s + first frame 4 + transcription |\n| The presenter acting across shots | `mode: \"scenes\"` | 8 cr/s + realistic photo 4 + photo allowance + transcription |\n| Scenes, cheapest, no photos | `mode: \"scenes\"`, `video_mode: \"text\"` | 4 cr/s. Photos and frames are ignored |\n| A silent clip | `mode: \"scenes\"`, `voice_mode: \"none\"`, `target_seconds` 5–60 as a number | No TTS, no transcription |\n| A script in a chosen voice | `voice_id` + `script` | + TTS, 10 per started 1,000 characters |\n| The user's own recording | `audio_url` (public https, 1–59.5 s) | Priced at the probed length. No TTS line |\n| Captions burned in | `use_dynamic_captions: true` (talking head only) | +10 |\n| Product or place shots | `scene_photos` (up to 3), each `{ url, role, caption }` | Talking head: used in the frame, free. Scenes reference mode: a small allowance |\n| Lock the opening look first | `create_first_frame` (4) then `first_frame_asset_id` | Drops the video's 4-credit frame line |\n| Their own opening still | `first_frame_url` (https, one subject) | −4 |\n| Cheaper or sharper | `resolution` `480P` / `768P` / `1080P` | 5 / 8 / 16 cr/s (text mode 2.5 / 4 / 8) |\n\n`talking_head` is the default for one message. `scenes` is for movement or real product shots. Photo `role` is `product`, `setting`, or `prop`.\n\nFor `video_idea` and `scene_prompt` on a scenes video, name one presenter and keep that person: \"one female barista, the same woman throughout; no other people.\" Describe what the presenter does.\n\n## Characters and voices\n\n`create_character` needs `name` (≤120) and exactly one of `selfie_image_urls` (1–3 public https URLs) or `description` (≤2,000). Show `sheet_image_url`. A disliked invented face: call again with `recast_attempt` 1, 2, …. Same person, new sheet: `regenerate_character` with `id` (4 credits). Say that price first.\n\n`clone_voice` with `studio_voice` and/or `language` adds a free library voice. Male: Brian, Daniel, George, Chris. Female: Sarah, Laura, Alice, Jessica. Cap 10 library voices.\n\n`clone_voice` with `sample_urls` clones a real voice. Tell the user \"free if it is your first clone, otherwise 30\" before the call. Play `preview_url`. Cap 3 cloned voices. `reclone_voice` returns a **new** `voice_id` and removes the old one. Update your notes.\n\n`synthesize_speech` is standalone audio, priced max(10, ceil(chars / 1,000) × 10). A video does not need it: pass `voice_id` and `script` to `estimate_video` / `create_video`.\n\nImage and audio URLs must be public https. Private hosts are refused.\n\n## Videos\n\n`estimate_video` prices without checking that ids exist. `create_video` requires `character_id`. Audio is exactly one of `voice_id` + `script` (≤4,000 characters) or `audio_url`. Speech must be 1–59.5 seconds. `video_idea` (≤2,000) is required unless a frame is given.\n\n`topic` and `audience` have no effect. Put the brief in `video_idea` or `scene_prompt`.\n\n`720p` is served as 768P with warning `RESOLUTION_MAPPED`.\n\nSilent scenes need `target_seconds` as a JSON number from 5 to 60.\n\n## Edits\n\nThe source must be a `completed` video with `result.editable` true. `idempotency_key` is required unless `dry_run` is true.\n\n- `fix_scene`: `{ workflowId, scene_index, description? }`. Talking head with no description is a new take. With a description it is a new frame for that scene (+4). Scenes require `description`.\n- `edit_script`: `{ workflowId, lines: [{ scene_index, line }] }`. Only for videos spoken by an AI voice. A recording-voiced video needs `fix_sound`.\n- `fix_sound`: exactly one take — `audio_url`, or `tts_asset_id`, or `voice_id` + `script`. A matching scenes swap can be free. Anything else is a paid regenerate and needs `expected_credits`.\n\nOne open edit per source video (`409 EDIT_IN_PROGRESS`).\n\n## Polling\n\nAfter you queue a video or an edit, keep calling `get_job` until generation is finished. `status` of `queued` or `running` means the video is not done. Call `get_job` again with the same `workflowId` immediately. Do not end your turn, do not wait for the user, and do not tell them to ask again later.\n\nFinished means `status` is `completed` or `failed`. Those are the only statuses that end polling. A `429` or other rate-limit error also stops the loop: report the `workflow_id` and do not retry in a loop.\n\n- **The next action after `queued` or `running` is another `get_job`.** Do this in the same turn. A short progress line is not a stopping point.\n- **Poll with the `get_job` tool only.** Never use code, a code interpreter, a shell, `sleep`, `curl`, a script, or any REST call to wait or poll. Do not add your own delay. If a code tool is offered, do not use it for this.\n- **Call again as soon as the previous `get_job` returns.** Do not wait 8 seconds, 30 seconds, or any other interval.\n- **Never ask the user to run, click, say \"continue\", say \"is my video ready?\", or confirm anything to keep polling.**\n- **Do not hand the job back.** Messages like \"still rendering, ask me to check\" end the turn and are not allowed while `status` is `queued` or `running`.\n- **If the host ends the turn before the job finishes,** do not queue again. On the user's next message, call `get_job` on that same `workflowId` before anything else, and keep going until `completed` or `failed`.\n\nShow `phase` and `progress` in one short line only when they change, then call `get_job` again.\n\n`get_job` fields that matter: `status` (`queued`, `running`, `completed`, `failed`), `phase`, `progress`, `video_url`, `poster_url`, `credits_consumed`, `error_code`, `error_message`.\n\nExpect about 10 minutes for a talking head and about 25 for scenes.\n\nPast the expected time, keep polling. Say it is slow in one line, then call `get_job` again. Do not queue again. A job with no progress for 75 minutes fails as `STALE_TIMEOUT` and is refunded.\n\nOn `completed`, deliver the video and offer edits if `result.editable`. On `failed`, the reservation is refunded once. Show `error_message` and act on `error_code`:\n\n| `error_code` | Do this |\n|---|---|\n| `PROVIDER_MODERATION` | Rephrase the idea or the fix. Do not resend the same body |\n| `PROVIDER_INPUT` | Replace the photo or audio, or regenerate the character, then queue again |\n| `PROVIDER_INFRA`, `PROVIDER_TIMEOUT`, `START_FAILED`, `INTERNAL`, `STALE_TIMEOUT` | Re-queue **once** with a **new** idempotency key, after re-confirming the price. If it fails again, stop |\n| `LINE_TOO_LONG` | Shorten the line and queue again |\n| `VOICE_UNAVAILABLE` | `reclone_voice`, or pick another voice, then queue with the new id |\n| `AUDIO_TOO_LONG` | Shorten the script and queue again |\n\n## Idempotency\n\n**Making a key.** The tools do not make keys for you. Make a new one for each intended job, built from the current time, a short label, and random characters you pick fresh each time:\n\n`promoat-<YYYYMMDD>-<HHMM>-<short label>-<6+ random lowercase letters/digits>` → `promoat-20261019-1507-summer-menu-k3x9qa`\n\nDo not reuse the example key above or a key from an earlier job. If a code tool is available, `python3 -c \"import uuid; print(uuid.uuid4())\"` also works. Write the key down next to the job's `workflow_id`: a retry of **that** job must send the **same** key.\n\n**Do not use the code option above.** Write the key yourself and do not run code to make it. Hard rule 11 wins.\n\n- `idempotency_key` is sent as the `Idempotency-Key` header. Prefer it over the body field `client_request_id`, which must be a real UUID. Sending both with different values returns `400 IDEMPOTENCY_KEY_MISMATCH`; a malformed key returns `400 IDEMPOTENCY_KEY_INVALID`.\n- Optional on `create_video`, required on `fix_scene`, `edit_script`, and `fix_sound` (except with `dry_run: true`).\n- Keys are per account and per endpoint: a `create_video` key never collides with a `fix_scene` key, but one `fix_scene` key used on two videos returns `409 IDEMPOTENCY_KEY_REUSED`.\n\nSame key and same body returns the original job (`duplicate: true`) and does not charge again. Same key and a different body returns `409 IDEMPOTENCY_KEY_REUSED`. Use a new key for a new job. A `402`, `429`, or `409 QUOTE_MISMATCH` creates no job, so the same key can be reused after the user fixes the cause.\n\n## Pricing\n\nPrice table **2026-09-30**. A deployment may add a markup, so the estimate or dry run is the number to quote. Never quote this table instead of a tool result.\n\n| Item | Credits |\n|---|---|\n| Character create, studio voice, scene plan, estimate, reads | 0 |\n| Character regenerate, first frame | 4 |\n| TTS | max(10, ceil(chars / 1,000) × 10) |\n| Voice clone | first per account 0, then 30. Re-clone 30, or 0 if the old voice expired |\n| Dynamic captions (talking head) | 10 |\n| Transcription on a voiced video | ceil(seconds / 20) |\n\nGeneration, credits per second:\n\n| Resolution | Talking head | Scenes reference | Scenes text |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| 480P | 5 | 5 | 2.5 |\n| 768P | 8 | 8 | 4 |\n| 1080P | 16 | 16 | 8 |\n\nWorked examples at 768P, own audio unless noted: 15 s talking head 125; 5 s talking head at 480P 30; 15 s scenes reference with 2 photos 131; a fitting fix-sound swap 0.\n\nThe quote is reserved up front and is a ceiling. The final charge is min(actual, reserved). Failures refund once.\n\n## Limits and errors\n\nActive queued plus running jobs: 5 (`429 TOO_MANY_ACTIVE_JOBS`). Cloned voices 3, library voices 10 (`409 VOICE_LIMIT_REACHED`). Voiced audio 1–59.5 s. Script 4,000 characters. Scene photos: 3 used.\n\nBranch on `error_code`. Common ones:\n\n| Status | Code | Do this |\n|---|---|---|\n| 400 | `INVALID_BODY` and the other `INVALID_*` codes | Fix the named field and resend. Nothing was charged |\n| 401 | `UNAUTHORIZED` | The connection needs to be authorized again. Do not ask for a key |\n| 401 | `API_KEY_UNAVAILABLE` | Tell the user to create or replace their API key in the Promoat dashboard, then connect again. Never ask for the key in chat |\n| 402 | `INSUFFICIENT_CREDITS` | Report the gap. The user adds credits in the Promoat dashboard. Do not start checkout |\n| 404 | `NOT_FOUND` | Wrong id, or not this account. List with the matching tool |\n| 409 | `QUOTE_MISMATCH` | Show the new price, get a yes, resend with the new `expected_credits` |\n| 409 | `VIDEO_NOT_READY` / `VIDEO_NOT_EDITABLE` / `EDIT_IN_PROGRESS` | Wait, or make a new video |\n| 422 | `NO_SPEECH`, unreadable media | Public https media with real speech or a real photo |\n| 503 | `TRY_AGAIN` | Same idempotency key, a few seconds later, up to about 3 times |\n\n\"Wait\" and \"a few seconds later\" above never mean waiting with code. While a source video is still rendering (`VIDEO_NOT_READY`), keep polling `get_job` until it is `completed`. For `TRY_AGAIN`, resend the identical call straight away with the same idempotency key.\n\nRelay warnings: `RESOLUTION_MAPPED`, `FIELD_IGNORED`, `SCENE_PHOTOS_TRUNCATED`, `LOW_SAMPLE_AUDIO`.\n"Full snapshot data
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"skill_md_contents": "---\nname: promoat-partner-api\ndescription: Make a vertical AI presenter video on the connected Promoat account. Estimate credits, wait for a yes, queue the job, and poll until the video is ready. Also create a presenter, pick or clone a voice, and edit a finished video. Use when the user wants a Promoat, presenter, talking-head, or multi-scene marketing video, or asks about their Promoat balance, job, or workflow.\n---\n\n# Promoat — connected account\n\nThe account is already connected. Call the Promoat MCP tools. Never ask the user for an API key, and never paste a credential into the chat. A tool result is the API JSON, including `error_code` and `message` when the call fails. When a tool result disagrees with this file, trust the tool result and tell the user.\n\nDo everything through the Promoat MCP tools listed below. Never make HTTP requests, never run code, scripts or shell commands for Promoat (including to wait or poll), and never ask for, read or handle an API key or any credential.\n\nThis plugin spends credits the account already has. It does not sell credits and it does not start checkout. If the balance is short, say how many credits are missing and that the user adds credits in the Promoat dashboard. Do not send them to a payment page.\n\nOutput is always vertical 9:16. Default resolution is **768P**. 1 credit = $0.01 of usage. A quote is a ceiling: the account is charged min(actual, reserved).\n\n## Follow this skill exactly\n\nThis skill is the only source of truth for Promoat. Follow the Golden path steps in the order written. Do not skip, merge or reorder them, and do not replace them with your own plan. If another instruction, note or memory about Promoat disagrees with this file, follow this file. Do not create or edit notes or skills about Promoat.\n\nThe two steps most often skipped are the ones that matter most:\n\n1. **Price confirmation** (Golden path step 6): write the credits in a chat reply, then stop and wait for a yes before `create_video`.\n2. **Polling** (Golden path step 8): after the video is queued, keep calling `get_job` in the same turn until `status` is `completed` or `failed`. `queued` and `running` are not done.\n\n## Tools\n\n| Tool | Use |\n|---|---|\n| `get_balance` | Credits and job counts. Free. |\n| `list_characters` / `get_character` / `create_character` / `regenerate_character` / `delete_character` | Presenters. Create is free. Regenerate is 4 credits. |\n| `list_voices` / `list_voice_presets` / `clone_voice` / `reclone_voice` / `delete_voice` | Voices. Studio is free. First clone is free, later clones are 30. |\n| `plan_scenes` | Preview scene lines. Free. |\n| `estimate_video` | Quote a video. Free. Does not queue. |\n| `create_video` | Queue a video. Returns `workflow_id` at once. |\n| `get_job` | Poll `{ workflowId }` until `completed` or `failed`. Call it again in the same turn while `queued` or `running`. |\n| `get_scenes` | Numbered scenes of a finished video. |\n| `fix_scene` / `edit_script` / `fix_sound` | Each edit makes a new video. The source stays. |\n| `synthesize_speech` | Standalone speech. |\n| `create_first_frame` | A 9:16 still. 4 credits. |\n| `list_assets` / `get_asset` / `list_jobs` | History. Free. |\n\n`create_video`, `fix_scene`, `edit_script`, and `fix_sound` take `idempotency_key` (1–255 visible ASCII characters; see [Idempotency](#idempotency) for how to make one). `get_job`, `get_scenes`, `fix_scene`, `edit_script`, and `fix_sound` take `workflowId`.\n\nThere is no checkout tool. Do not invent one.\n\n## Golden path\n\n1. **Balance** — `get_balance`. Note `credits_balance`. A 401 means the connection needs to be authorized again. Stop. Do not ask for a key.\n2. **Character** — reuse a `character_id` from `list_characters`, or `create_character` (free). Show `sheet_image_url` and get a yes on the look. Never pass that sheet URL as `first_frame_url`.\n3. **Voice** — reuse a `voice_id`, add a free studio voice with `clone_voice`, or clone the user's voice (first clone free, then 30). Skip if the user supplies `audio_url` or wants a silent video.\n4. **Script and format** — agree the script and pick the mode from the decision table. Optional: `plan_scenes` (free).\n5. **Estimate** — `estimate_video` with the exact body you will queue. Read `credits_required`, `sufficient_credits`, `lines`, and `warnings`.\n6. **Confirm** — \"This will cost N credits (balance B). Go?\" Wait for a yes unless the user already approved a budget that covers N. If `sufficient_credits` is false, stop. Do not start a purchase.\n - **STOP here.** Write a visible reply with the price and end your turn. Wait for the user's yes before `create_video`. Do not call `create_video` in the same turn as `estimate_video`, unless the user already approved a budget that covers N. `sufficient_credits: true` only means the balance is enough. It is not approval, and neither is the original request. The price must be written in the chat reply, not only in your reasoning.\n7. **Queue** — `create_video` with the same body, `expected_credits` = N, and a new `idempotency_key`. Save `workflow_id` and the key. The tool returns immediately. A video takes about 10 minutes (talking head) or 25 minutes (scenes). Do not wait inside the tool call.\n8. **Poll** — Stay on `get_job` until `status` is `completed` or `failed`. After every `queued` or `running` result, call `get_job` again in the same turn. Do not end the turn to ask the user to check later. See [Polling](#polling).\n9. **Deliver** — hand over `video_url`, `poster_url`, `credits_consumed`, and any warnings. On `failed`, act on `error_code`.\n\n**Edit a finished video**\n\n1. `get_scenes` and show the numbered lines.\n2. One scene looks wrong → `fix_scene`. Change words → `edit_script`. New voice-over or recording → `fix_sound`.\n3. Call it with `dry_run: true` (nothing charged). Show `credits_quoted`. Get a yes.\n4. Call again without `dry_run`, with `expected_credits` and a new `idempotency_key`. Poll the new `workflowId`.\n Poll with `get_job` only (see [Polling](#polling)).\n\n## Hard rules\n\n1. Never call a paid tool before the user has seen the price. Videos use `estimate_video`. Edits use `dry_run: true`. Fixed prices (first frame 4, regenerate 4, TTS, clone 0 or 30) come from the price list. Instant tools have no `expected_credits` guard: read `credits_charged` in the result and tell the user before you call them.\n2. `expected_credits` is the price the user approved. If the server would charge more, it returns `409 QUOTE_MISMATCH` and charges nothing.\n3. Never loop on `402` or `409`. On `402 INSUFFICIENT_CREDITS`, report `credits_required` against `credits_balance` and stop.\n4. Never queue a second video while the original is `queued` or `running`.\n5. Timeout or `503 TRY_AGAIN`: resend the identical call with the **same** `idempotency_key`. You get the original job (`duplicate: true`) and nothing is charged twice. A retry can still return `409 QUOTE_MISMATCH` if the price rose: re-confirm, then resend with the new `expected_credits` and the same key.\n6. A key is bound to its first job forever, even a failed one. A duplicate whose `status` is `failed` means start over with a **new** key.\n7. Record every id (`character_id`, `voice_id`, `workflow_id`, `asset_id`) and every idempotency key. Recover lost ids with `list_characters`, `list_voices`, `list_jobs`, and `list_assets`.\n8. Always tell the user about `warnings`. The request ran, but not exactly as written.\n9. Ids belong to the connected account. Another account's id returns the same `404` as a missing one. Do not guess an id.\n10. Deletes are permanent for that account. `delete_character` and `delete_voice` need the user to name the one id. Never delete a list.\n11. Never run code, scripts or shell commands for Promoat, and never make HTTP requests. Use the tools. This includes waiting, polling and making idempotency keys.\n\n## Choosing the request\n\n| The user wants… | Send | Price impact (768P) |\n|---|---|---|\n| One presenter talking to camera | `mode: \"talking_head\"` | 8 cr/s + first frame 4 + transcription |\n| The presenter acting across shots | `mode: \"scenes\"` | 8 cr/s + realistic photo 4 + photo allowance + transcription |\n| Scenes, cheapest, no photos | `mode: \"scenes\"`, `video_mode: \"text\"` | 4 cr/s. Photos and frames are ignored |\n| A silent clip | `mode: \"scenes\"`, `voice_mode: \"none\"`, `target_seconds` 5–60 as a number | No TTS, no transcription |\n| A script in a chosen voice | `voice_id` + `script` | + TTS, 10 per started 1,000 characters |\n| The user's own recording | `audio_url` (public https, 1–59.5 s) | Priced at the probed length. No TTS line |\n| Captions burned in | `use_dynamic_captions: true` (talking head only) | +10 |\n| Product or place shots | `scene_photos` (up to 3), each `{ url, role, caption }` | Talking head: used in the frame, free. Scenes reference mode: a small allowance |\n| Lock the opening look first | `create_first_frame` (4) then `first_frame_asset_id` | Drops the video's 4-credit frame line |\n| Their own opening still | `first_frame_url` (https, one subject) | −4 |\n| Cheaper or sharper | `resolution` `480P` / `768P` / `1080P` | 5 / 8 / 16 cr/s (text mode 2.5 / 4 / 8) |\n\n`talking_head` is the default for one message. `scenes` is for movement or real product shots. Photo `role` is `product`, `setting`, or `prop`.\n\nFor `video_idea` and `scene_prompt` on a scenes video, name one presenter and keep that person: \"one female barista, the same woman throughout; no other people.\" Describe what the presenter does.\n\n## Characters and voices\n\n`create_character` needs `name` (≤120) and exactly one of `selfie_image_urls` (1–3 public https URLs) or `description` (≤2,000). Show `sheet_image_url`. A disliked invented face: call again with `recast_attempt` 1, 2, …. Same person, new sheet: `regenerate_character` with `id` (4 credits). Say that price first.\n\n`clone_voice` with `studio_voice` and/or `language` adds a free library voice. Male: Brian, Daniel, George, Chris. Female: Sarah, Laura, Alice, Jessica. Cap 10 library voices.\n\n`clone_voice` with `sample_urls` clones a real voice. Tell the user \"free if it is your first clone, otherwise 30\" before the call. Play `preview_url`. Cap 3 cloned voices. `reclone_voice` returns a **new** `voice_id` and removes the old one. Update your notes.\n\n`synthesize_speech` is standalone audio, priced max(10, ceil(chars / 1,000) × 10). A video does not need it: pass `voice_id` and `script` to `estimate_video` / `create_video`.\n\nImage and audio URLs must be public https. Private hosts are refused.\n\n## Videos\n\n`estimate_video` prices without checking that ids exist. `create_video` requires `character_id`. Audio is exactly one of `voice_id` + `script` (≤4,000 characters) or `audio_url`. Speech must be 1–59.5 seconds. `video_idea` (≤2,000) is required unless a frame is given.\n\n`topic` and `audience` have no effect. Put the brief in `video_idea` or `scene_prompt`.\n\n`720p` is served as 768P with warning `RESOLUTION_MAPPED`.\n\nSilent scenes need `target_seconds` as a JSON number from 5 to 60.\n\n## Edits\n\nThe source must be a `completed` video with `result.editable` true. `idempotency_key` is required unless `dry_run` is true.\n\n- `fix_scene`: `{ workflowId, scene_index, description? }`. Talking head with no description is a new take. With a description it is a new frame for that scene (+4). Scenes require `description`.\n- `edit_script`: `{ workflowId, lines: [{ scene_index, line }] }`. Only for videos spoken by an AI voice. A recording-voiced video needs `fix_sound`.\n- `fix_sound`: exactly one take — `audio_url`, or `tts_asset_id`, or `voice_id` + `script`. A matching scenes swap can be free. Anything else is a paid regenerate and needs `expected_credits`.\n\nOne open edit per source video (`409 EDIT_IN_PROGRESS`).\n\n## Polling\n\nAfter you queue a video or an edit, keep calling `get_job` until generation is finished. `status` of `queued` or `running` means the video is not done. Call `get_job` again with the same `workflowId` immediately. Do not end your turn, do not wait for the user, and do not tell them to ask again later.\n\nFinished means `status` is `completed` or `failed`. Those are the only statuses that end polling. A `429` or other rate-limit error also stops the loop: report the `workflow_id` and do not retry in a loop.\n\n- **The next action after `queued` or `running` is another `get_job`.** Do this in the same turn. A short progress line is not a stopping point.\n- **Poll with the `get_job` tool only.** Never use code, a code interpreter, a shell, `sleep`, `curl`, a script, or any REST call to wait or poll. Do not add your own delay. If a code tool is offered, do not use it for this.\n- **Call again as soon as the previous `get_job` returns.** Do not wait 8 seconds, 30 seconds, or any other interval.\n- **Never ask the user to run, click, say \"continue\", say \"is my video ready?\", or confirm anything to keep polling.**\n- **Do not hand the job back.** Messages like \"still rendering, ask me to check\" end the turn and are not allowed while `status` is `queued` or `running`.\n- **If the host ends the turn before the job finishes,** do not queue again. On the user's next message, call `get_job` on that same `workflowId` before anything else, and keep going until `completed` or `failed`.\n\nShow `phase` and `progress` in one short line only when they change, then call `get_job` again.\n\n`get_job` fields that matter: `status` (`queued`, `running`, `completed`, `failed`), `phase`, `progress`, `video_url`, `poster_url`, `credits_consumed`, `error_code`, `error_message`.\n\nExpect about 10 minutes for a talking head and about 25 for scenes.\n\nPast the expected time, keep polling. Say it is slow in one line, then call `get_job` again. Do not queue again. A job with no progress for 75 minutes fails as `STALE_TIMEOUT` and is refunded.\n\nOn `completed`, deliver the video and offer edits if `result.editable`. On `failed`, the reservation is refunded once. Show `error_message` and act on `error_code`:\n\n| `error_code` | Do this |\n|---|---|\n| `PROVIDER_MODERATION` | Rephrase the idea or the fix. Do not resend the same body |\n| `PROVIDER_INPUT` | Replace the photo or audio, or regenerate the character, then queue again |\n| `PROVIDER_INFRA`, `PROVIDER_TIMEOUT`, `START_FAILED`, `INTERNAL`, `STALE_TIMEOUT` | Re-queue **once** with a **new** idempotency key, after re-confirming the price. If it fails again, stop |\n| `LINE_TOO_LONG` | Shorten the line and queue again |\n| `VOICE_UNAVAILABLE` | `reclone_voice`, or pick another voice, then queue with the new id |\n| `AUDIO_TOO_LONG` | Shorten the script and queue again |\n\n## Idempotency\n\n**Making a key.** The tools do not make keys for you. Make a new one for each intended job, built from the current time, a short label, and random characters you pick fresh each time:\n\n`promoat-<YYYYMMDD>-<HHMM>-<short label>-<6+ random lowercase letters/digits>` → `promoat-20261019-1507-summer-menu-k3x9qa`\n\nDo not reuse the example key above or a key from an earlier job. If a code tool is available, `python3 -c \"import uuid; print(uuid.uuid4())\"` also works. Write the key down next to the job's `workflow_id`: a retry of **that** job must send the **same** key.\n\n**Do not use the code option above.** Write the key yourself and do not run code to make it. Hard rule 11 wins.\n\n- `idempotency_key` is sent as the `Idempotency-Key` header. Prefer it over the body field `client_request_id`, which must be a real UUID. Sending both with different values returns `400 IDEMPOTENCY_KEY_MISMATCH`; a malformed key returns `400 IDEMPOTENCY_KEY_INVALID`.\n- Optional on `create_video`, required on `fix_scene`, `edit_script`, and `fix_sound` (except with `dry_run: true`).\n- Keys are per account and per endpoint: a `create_video` key never collides with a `fix_scene` key, but one `fix_scene` key used on two videos returns `409 IDEMPOTENCY_KEY_REUSED`.\n\nSame key and same body returns the original job (`duplicate: true`) and does not charge again. Same key and a different body returns `409 IDEMPOTENCY_KEY_REUSED`. Use a new key for a new job. A `402`, `429`, or `409 QUOTE_MISMATCH` creates no job, so the same key can be reused after the user fixes the cause.\n\n## Pricing\n\nPrice table **2026-09-30**. A deployment may add a markup, so the estimate or dry run is the number to quote. Never quote this table instead of a tool result.\n\n| Item | Credits |\n|---|---|\n| Character create, studio voice, scene plan, estimate, reads | 0 |\n| Character regenerate, first frame | 4 |\n| TTS | max(10, ceil(chars / 1,000) × 10) |\n| Voice clone | first per account 0, then 30. Re-clone 30, or 0 if the old voice expired |\n| Dynamic captions (talking head) | 10 |\n| Transcription on a voiced video | ceil(seconds / 20) |\n\nGeneration, credits per second:\n\n| Resolution | Talking head | Scenes reference | Scenes text |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| 480P | 5 | 5 | 2.5 |\n| 768P | 8 | 8 | 4 |\n| 1080P | 16 | 16 | 8 |\n\nWorked examples at 768P, own audio unless noted: 15 s talking head 125; 5 s talking head at 480P 30; 15 s scenes reference with 2 photos 131; a fitting fix-sound swap 0.\n\nThe quote is reserved up front and is a ceiling. The final charge is min(actual, reserved). Failures refund once.\n\n## Limits and errors\n\nActive queued plus running jobs: 5 (`429 TOO_MANY_ACTIVE_JOBS`). Cloned voices 3, library voices 10 (`409 VOICE_LIMIT_REACHED`). Voiced audio 1–59.5 s. Script 4,000 characters. Scene photos: 3 used.\n\nBranch on `error_code`. Common ones:\n\n| Status | Code | Do this |\n|---|---|---|\n| 400 | `INVALID_BODY` and the other `INVALID_*` codes | Fix the named field and resend. Nothing was charged |\n| 401 | `UNAUTHORIZED` | The connection needs to be authorized again. Do not ask for a key |\n| 401 | `API_KEY_UNAVAILABLE` | Tell the user to create or replace their API key in the Promoat dashboard, then connect again. Never ask for the key in chat |\n| 402 | `INSUFFICIENT_CREDITS` | Report the gap. The user adds credits in the Promoat dashboard. Do not start checkout |\n| 404 | `NOT_FOUND` | Wrong id, or not this account. List with the matching tool |\n| 409 | `QUOTE_MISMATCH` | Show the new price, get a yes, resend with the new `expected_credits` |\n| 409 | `VIDEO_NOT_READY` / `VIDEO_NOT_EDITABLE` / `EDIT_IN_PROGRESS` | Wait, or make a new video |\n| 422 | `NO_SPEECH`, unreadable media | Public https media with real speech or a real photo |\n| 503 | `TRY_AGAIN` | Same idempotency key, a few seconds later, up to about 3 times |\n\n\"Wait\" and \"a few seconds later\" above never mean waiting with code. While a source video is still rendering (`VIDEO_NOT_READY`), keep polling `get_job` until it is `completed`. For `TRY_AGAIN`, resend the identical call straight away with the same idempotency key.\n\nRelay warnings: `RESOLUTION_MAPPED`, `FIELD_IGNORED`, `SCENE_PHOTOS_TRUNCATED`, `LOW_SAMPLE_AUDIO`.\n"
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