video-content

video-content is a skill for Claude Code from cbrock84/headcount. It costs 89 tokens per session (926 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 Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the marketing plugin — 19 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to script videos, plan series, improve retention or click-through, create title and thumbnail concepts, and adapt written content into video.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cbrock84/headcount/video-content
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 · 2,077 stars · on GitHub · cbrock84.github.io

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.

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.

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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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for video-content

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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 926 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00089 $0.00926
Opus 5.5 $0.00036 $0.00370
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00185
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00093

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 1b7f3159a5a1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 1mo 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.

plugins/marketing/skills/video-content/SKILL.md · 81 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 81 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 · 81 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 1mo ago Changed · +7 lines 1b7f3159a5a1
  2. 1mo ago 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 (2,077 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 89 tokens to every session and 926 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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