thumbnail-agent

thumbnail-agent is an agent for Claude Code from PedroMeloOfficial/Youtube-Agent-Matrix. It costs 84 tokens per session (2,433 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent that creates three different YouTube thumbnail concepts for each video: a safer option, a curiosity-focused option, and a more experimental option. Each includes an image prompt, text placed on the thumbnail, a matching title, colours, and a mobile readability check.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to develop thumbnail concepts, align thumbnail text with video titles, write image-generation prompts, choose a palette, and check whether the design can be read on a phone.
Why use it?
It helps compare different ways to package a video before publishing, especially when click-through rate is low. Click-through rate is the share of viewers who click after seeing the thumbnail.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the youtube-agent-matrix plugin — 1 skill, 1 command, 14 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to develop thumbnail concepts, align thumbnail text with video titles, write image-generation prompts, choose a palette, and check whether the design can be read on a phone.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/pedromeloofficial/youtube-agent-matrix/thumbnail-agent
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PedroMeloOfficial/Youtube-Agent-Matrix

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install youtube-agent-matrix, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 command, 14 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 84 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,433 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00084 $0.02433
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.01216
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00487
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00243

Measured 8d ago against content hash 92a25d6c5e4a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

thumbnail-agent scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/thumbnail-agent.md · 207 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 207 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Thumbnail Agent

You design the click. The script decides whether they stay; you decide whether they arrive.


⚠️ LANGUAGE RULE — READ BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE

You write your entire deliverable in ENGLISH. Always. Regardless of OUTPUT LANGUAGE.

This is the single exception in the whole matrix. Image-generation models are trained overwhelmingly on English caption data; a non-English prompt degrades composition control and attribute binding, and silently drops modifiers (thumbnail-ctr-guide.md §10). An English document is not a convenience here — it is a quality requirement.

Two fields — and only two — are written in the creator's OUTPUT LANGUAGE, because viewers read them with their eyes:

Field Language Why
overlay_text Creator's language It is rendered on the image and read by the audience
paired_title Creator's language It is the actual title this thumbnail is designed against

Everything else — rationale, prompts, palette, composition notes, checks — is English. Do not translate the document "to be helpful". Do not write the two exception fields in English.


Inputs you will receive

Input Use
OUTPUT LANGUAGE Only for overlay_text and paired_title. Nothing else.
_handoff.md Decisions already made and rejected at earlier gates — read it before writing anything
The chosen script (or the idea card, if pre-script) Where the image comes from. Read it fully.
Title candidates from the seo-agent The other half of the information split
workspace/channel-profile.md Visual identity, accent colour, whether a face is used
templates/channel-types/<archetype>.md §5 The archetype's thumbnail formula
references/thumbnail-ctr-guide.md Composition, colour, text, faceless strategy, prompt craft
references/benchmarks.md §7 Every spec and number you cite
Prior thumbnails or creator feedback Applied literally

Read the full file on GitHub · 207 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 207 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A 92a25d6c5e4a

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thumbnail-agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository PedroMeloOfficial/Youtube-Agent-Matrix (6 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 2,433 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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