video-content

video-content is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cbrock84/headcount. It costs 89 tokens per session (851 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A video content guide for planning and scripting short- and long-form videos, including the titles, thumbnails, and openings that shape whether people watch.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to script videos, plan series, improve retention or click-through, create title and thumbnail concepts, and adapt written content into video.
Why use it?
It helps solve low clicks and early viewer drop-off by treating the idea, packaging, and opening as part of the same job.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the marketing plugin — 19 skills shipped together

About the project

headcount is an organization of independently installable Claude Code plugins, each grouping skills for a department such as finance, security, or demand generation. Claude Code users install the departments they need and invoke their skills for specialized work; the catalogue entries are skills and related agent tooling from that organization.

cbrock84/headcount · 1,247 stars · on GitHub

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cbrock84/headcount/video-content
Any agent
npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill video-content
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install marketing, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for video-content

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 89 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 851 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00089 $0.00851
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00426
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00170
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00085

Measured yesterday against content hash 8f2280e402f5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

video-content 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 yesterday.

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.

plugins/marketing/skills/video-content/SKILL.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Video content

This covers video as a format across platforms — short-form, long-form, and the packaging that decides whether either gets watched. youtube-producer covers one platform in depth: channel strategy, idea selection against a channel's history, and retention teardowns against YouTube's own curves. When the question is about a channel rather than a video, it belongs there.

Packaging is most of the outcome

A video nobody clicks has no retention curve. Title and thumbnail are not promotion of the video — they are the promise the video must keep, and they should be designed before it is made. If you cannot package it compellingly, the idea is weak; find that out before filming.

Titles — specific over clever. Curiosity that a real answer resolves, not a withheld one. Front-load the distinguishing word, since titles truncate.

Thumbnails — one subject, readable at thumbnail size on a phone. High contrast. Text under about four words, or none. Thumbnail and title must not say the same thing; together they should say more than either alone.

Openings

The first fifteen seconds decide the rest. Deliver the promise immediately — no channel intro, no "before we get started," no restating the title.

Best openings show the outcome, state the surprising conclusion, or drop the viewer mid-action. Then say what the video will cover, briefly, so they know the shape of the commitment.

Structure by length

Short-form — one idea, opening frame that reads as motion, and a payoff before attention decays. No setup. The loop matters: end where the beginning makes sense again.

Long-form — chapters that each work standalone, with an explicit reason to continue at every seam. Retention is lost at transitions, not in the middle of sections. Vary pace deliberately; a uniformly intense video is as tiring as a flat one.

Diagnosing underperformance

  • Low click-through — packaging problem. Title and thumbnail, not content.
  • High click-through, early drop — the opening did not pay the promise. Or the promise was unpayable.
  • Steady mid-video decline — normal. Look at the slope against your own baseline, not absolutes.
  • Sharp mid-video cliff — find the timestamp and watch it. It is almost always a transition, a tangent, or a sponsor read placed badly.

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 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. yesterday First seen · 74 lines · 89 tokens per session scan A 8f2280e402f5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

video-content is a skill published in the GitHub repository cbrock84/headcount (1,247 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 89 tokens to every session and 851 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 2026-09-03.

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