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The YouTube agent skill

Eleven Claude skills that run a YouTube channel. Free, MIT, no signup, no API key, nothing to
connect.

One of them writes your script off 21 hook formulas and scores the hook before you waste a take on
it. One lints the title and the thumbnail as a single pairing, because writing them separately is
why half of your click surface says the same thing twice. One reads your audience-retention export
and tells you the exact second people left and what you were saying when they did. One turns a
transcript into an edit decision list. One finds the Shorts already hiding inside a long video. One
goes and finds what is working in your niche and ranks it by how far each video beat its own
channel, not by how big the channel is.

Nothing gets published until you do it. These skills write. You upload.

 Install

Paste this into Claude:


https://github.com/Jakeschincariol/youtube-agent-skill

Install this skill, then confirm /yt-script works.


Or do it yourself, in Claude Code:

bash
git clone https://github.com/Jakeschincariol/youtube-agent-skill.git
cp -r youtube-agent-skill/skills/yt- ~/.claude/skills/


Or as a plugin:


/plugin marketplace add Jakeschincariol/youtube-agent-skill
/plugin install youtube-agent


Project-local instead of global: copy the same folders into your repo's .claude/skills/. No Claude
Code at all? Paste any single SKILL.md at the top of a chat and it runs as a mode. You lose the six
Python tools, which is most of the point of /yt-script, /yt-retention and /yt-edit, but the
rest works.

Then spend ten minutes on templates/voice.md. Copy it to
~/.claude/youtube/voice.md and fill it in, or send Claude three of your own videos and say "write
my voice.md from these". Every skill reads that file. It matters more here than anywhere else,
because you have to say the words out loud.

 The eleven

| command | what it does |
| --- | --- |
| /yt-script | One idea into a script. Five hooks off 21 formulas, scored, then the spoken script with the retention beats marked. |
| /yt-package | Title and thumbnail as one pairing, linted for truncation, duplication and vagueness. |
| /yt-edit | A transcript into an edit decision list: dead air, filler cues, retakes, with timecodes. |
| /yt-comment | The comment section triaged into four piles, then replies in your voice. Says which one to pin. |
| /yt-plan | A week that fits the hours you actually have. One anchor, one cheap one, three Shorts. |
| /yt-viral | What is working in your niche, ranked by multiple over each channel's own median. |
| /yt-retention | Your retention export read properly: hook leak, the cliffs, the slide, and what to change. |
| /yt-shorts | The Shorts already inside a long video, with a new first line written for each. |
| /yt-seo | The description, the tags that are worth having, and the three queries this should win. |
| /yt-chapters | Chapters from a transcript, validated against YouTube's own rules so they render. |
| /yt-audit | The whole channel,

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