social-youtube

social-youtube is a skill for Claude Code from brainbytes-dev/everything-claude-marketing. It costs 31 tokens per session (2,860 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to planning and improving YouTube videos, Shorts, thumbnails, titles, channels, and publishing schedules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Scripting videos, planning channel content, designing thumbnails, writing titles, optimizing existing videos, and using YouTube analytics.
Why use it?
It helps creators make videos easier to discover and improve the number of people who click and continue watching.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the everything-claude-marketing plugin — 72 skills, 22 commands, 18 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Scripting videos, planning channel content, designing thumbnails, writing titles, optimizing existing videos, and using YouTube analytics.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/brainbytes-dev/everything-claude-marketing/social-youtube
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add brainbytes-dev/everything-claude-marketing --skill social-youtube
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brainbytes-dev/everything-claude-marketing

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install everything-claude-marketing, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 72 skills, 22 commands, 18 agents, 2 hooks.

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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,860 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 $0.00031 $0.02860
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.01144
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00572
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00286

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 2d534183e171, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

social-youtube 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 2mo 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.

skills/social-media/social-youtube/SKILL.md · 272 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 272 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

YouTube Content Strategy

When to Activate

Use this skill when:

  • Planning or scripting YouTube videos (long-form or Shorts)
  • Designing thumbnails and writing titles
  • Developing a YouTube channel strategy
  • Optimizing existing videos for better performance
  • Building a content calendar for YouTube
  • Analyzing YouTube analytics for growth

First Questions

Before creating YouTube content, clarify:

  1. What is the channel's niche and positioning?
  2. Who is the ideal viewer? (Demographics, what they search for, what channels they watch)
  3. What is the primary goal? (Ad revenue, lead gen, brand awareness, product sales, community)
  4. What content format is planned? (Talking head, tutorial, documentary, vlog, list, interview)
  5. What is the current subscriber count and average view count?
  6. What is the production capacity? (Frequency, editing skill, equipment)
  7. Are Shorts part of the strategy?

Core Rules

  1. CTR x Watch Time = Growth. YouTube's algorithm is driven by two things: how many people click (CTR) and how long they watch (average view duration / AVD). You must optimize both.
  2. The thumbnail and title are 80% of the battle. A brilliant video with a bad thumbnail gets zero views.
  3. Audience retention is everything. Every second of your video must earn the next second.
  4. YouTube is a search engine AND a recommendation engine. Optimize for both.
  5. Consistency in upload schedule builds subscriber habit. Pick a cadence and stick to it.
  6. Packaging (title + thumbnail) can be changed. The video cannot. Test packaging on underperforming videos.
  7. Niche down before expanding. YouTube rewards channels that train the algorithm on a specific audience.

The YouTube Algorithm

How Videos Get Distributed

Phase 1: Subscriber notification + Home feed

  • Your video is shown to a subset of subscribers and recent viewers
  • YouTube measures: CTR, early watch time, session impact

Phase 2: Browse features + Suggested videos

  • If Phase 1 metrics are strong, the video appears alongside related content
  • Key metric: "Suggested video" traffic — this is where scale happens

Read the full file on GitHub · 272 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. 2mo ago First seen · 272 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 2d534183e171

Subscribe to this mod's changes

social-youtube is a skill published in the GitHub repository brainbytes-dev/everything-claude-marketing (10 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 2,860 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.

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