Getting Started
Connect an agent to Fountain. Then ask for what you want in your own words.
Connect your show
Search for your podcast in the studio to connect it. You can connect more than one show.
Connect my podcast to Fountain
Index your episodes
Fountain transcribes every episode of your connected shows and uses the transcripts to find clips.
Check how far it has got How many of my episodes are indexed so far?
Connect your agent
These steps set up Codex, ChatGPT agent environment. Web and mobile are coming soon.
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Add the Fountain MCP server:
codex mcp add fountain --url https://api.fountain.fm/v1/mcp
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Sign in to your Fountain account in the browser:
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Install the Fountain skills:
npx skills add fountain-fm/fountain-skills -g -a codex -s '*' -y
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Start Codex and say "Set up Fountain"
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Open the Fountain plugin and click Add
If the link doesn't work, go to Settings → Plugins → Discover and search for Fountain.
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In the plugin's Connectors tab, click Connect next to Fountain and sign in to your Fountain account
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Start a chat and say "Set up Fountain"
For the best experience, we recommend Claude Code. On Team and Enterprise plans, your admin may need to allow the plugin.
These steps set up the OpenCode CLI.
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Add the Fountain MCP server:
opencode mcp add fountain --url https://api.fountain.fm/v1/mcp --global
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Sign in to your Fountain account in the browser:
opencode mcp auth fountain
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Install the Fountain skills:
npx skills add fountain-fm/fountain-skills -g -a opencode -s '*' -y
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Start OpenCode and say "Set up Fountain"
These steps set up the Hermes Agent CLI.
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Add the Fountain MCP server, sign in to your Fountain account in the browser, and enable all tools:
hermes mcp add fountain --url https://api.fountain.fm/v1/mcp --auth oauth --connect-timeout 300
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Install the Fountain skills:
npx skills add fountain-fm/fountain-skills -g -a hermes-agent -s '*' -y
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Start Hermes and say "Set up Fountain"
These steps set up VS Code or anything else that supports remote MCP.
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Add an MCP server named Fountain with this URL. Leave the OAuth client ID and secret empty:
https://api.fountain.fm/v1/mcp
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Sign in to your Fountain account when your agent asks
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Install the Fountain skills. The CLI asks which agent to install for, and the skills also live at fountain-fm/fountain-skills:
npx skills add fountain-fm/fountain-skills -g
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Start your agent and say "Set up Fountain"
Connect social channels
Connect X, YouTube or Instagram so your agent can post clips there.
Connect my YouTube account so clips can be posted there
Create your first clips
Ask for clips from your latest episode. Each one arrives as a draft for you to approve.
Name a caption style or describe one, and save it to use on every clip.
Find three clips from my latest episode
Use the hormozi caption style, and add my show logo in the corner
Describe the feel instead These captions are too loud. Try something that reads rather than performs
Render what you approved Render the ones I approved as vertical and square
Set up daily growth
Every morning, your agent checks the news and drafts clips from episodes that match. Nothing is posted until you approve it.
Run daily growth for my show each morning
What did you learn from last week’s posts?
Choose how it reports Email me the drafts instead of rendering them automatically
Publish an episode
Give your agent the file and a time. It publishes or schedules the episode and writes the show notes.
Early access and bonus episodes work the same way.
Publish this file as next Tuesday’s episode
Write show notes and chapters for my latest episode
Make episode 42 early access for subscribers
Ask about your analytics
Ask about downloads, where they come from and how each clip did.
Last week at a glance How did last week’s episodes do?
Which clips beat my baseline, and what did they have in common?
Where listeners come from Where are my downloads coming from?
Ask anything about your show
Every episode is transcribed, so you can ask what was said, by whom and when.
When did we last talk about AI?
Find every mention of my sponsor this year
Who were the guests in the last ten episodes?
Summarise the biggest disagreement in our last episode