youtube-producer

youtube-producer is a skill for Claude Code from cbrock84/headcount. It costs 86 tokens per session (1,057 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A YouTube production guide for choosing video ideas, writing scripts, and creating titles and thumbnails that help viewers decide to watch.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for YouTube channel strategy, long-form video scripts, title and thumbnail options, retention reviews, and audience-focused idea selection.
Why use it?
It helps identify weak ideas and explain why a channel or video is getting few clicks or losing viewers.

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 for YouTube channel strategy, long-form video scripts, title and thumbnail options, retention reviews, and audience-focused idea selection.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cbrock84/headcount/youtube-producer
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 · 1,356 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 youtube-producer
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.

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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,057 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 $0.00086 $0.01057
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00528
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00211
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00106

Measured 8d ago against content hash ad856a50c044, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

youtube-producer 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.

plugins/marketing/skills/youtube-producer/SKILL.md · 97 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

YouTube producer

Package before you produce

Title and thumbnail decide whether a video is watched at all. Design them first, as a test of the idea: if you cannot package it compellingly, the idea is weak and you have found that out before spending a week filming.

Titles. Specific over clever. Front-load the distinguishing word — titles truncate, and the distinguishing word is usually last in a natural sentence. Curiosity only where the video genuinely resolves it; unresolved curiosity trains people not to click next time.

Thumbnails. One subject, readable at phone-thumbnail size. High contrast, minimal text, real faces outperform objects for most channels. Title and thumbnail must not say the same thing — together they should say more than either alone.

Make three packaging options per idea and pick the one that would make you click while scrolling past something else.

Idea selection

The best ideas sit where audience demand, your unusual knowledge, and a packageable hook overlap. Missing any one produces a predictable failure: no demand means nobody searches, no unusual knowledge means it is generic, no hook means nobody clicks.

Check what already exists on the topic. Not to avoid it — a crowded topic proves demand — but to find the angle nobody took.

The first thirty seconds

Deliver the promise immediately. No channel intro, no "before we get started," no restating the title. Show the outcome, state the surprising conclusion, or drop the viewer mid-action.

Then briefly say what the video covers, so the viewer knows the shape of the commitment they are making.

Retention structure

Retention is lost at seams, not in the middle of sections. Every transition needs an explicit reason to continue — an open question, a promised payoff, a stated next step.

  • Chapter it. Each section should work standalone and end pointing forward.
  • Vary pace deliberately. A uniformly intense video is as tiring as a flat one.
  • Front-load value. Withholding the good part until the end optimizes for a viewer who is no longer watching.
  • Place sponsor reads after the first payoff, never before it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 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 · 97 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A ad856a50c044

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youtube-producer is a skill published in the GitHub repository cbrock84/headcount (1,356 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 1,057 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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