youtube-title-creator

youtube-title-creator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cdeistopened/skill-stack. It costs 37 tokens per session (3,645 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing aid for creating YouTube video titles and thumbnail text from a library of 119 title formulas.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for podcast or educational videos, generating title and thumbnail variations, and comparing different options.
Why use it?
It helps when you need several headline ideas and want the title and thumbnail wording to work together.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/cdeistopened/skill-stack/youtube-title-creator
Any agent
npx skills add cdeistopened/skill-stack --skill youtube-title-creator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cdeistopened/skill-stack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,645 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 $0.00037 $0.03645
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01822
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00729
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00364

Measured 4d ago against content hash 15cbf4a8f38f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

youtube-title-creator 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 4d 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.

.claude/skills/youtube-title-creator/SKILL.md · 481 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 481 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

YouTube Title & Thumbnail Creator

Purpose

Generate YouTube titles and thumbnails with a high degree of complementarity that achieve 6%+ click-through rates using the framework fitting method: extract your concept, match to 119 proven formulas ranked by performance, generate variations, select best.

Core Philosophy: Good titles follow proven frameworks. The skill is in matching your concept to the delivery mechanism that amplifies it best.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when you need to:

  • Create YouTube titles for podcast episodes or educational videos
  • Generate thumbnail text that complements titles
  • A/B test title variations for same content

Do NOT use for:

  • Blog post headlines (use hook-and-headline-writing instead)
  • Social media captions (use social-caption-writer instead)
  • Newsletter subject lines (use hook-and-headline-writing instead)

Key Principles

The Framework Fitting Method

Extract your content concept → Review ALL applicable frameworks → Test the fit → Generate volume → Select best.

Critical Rule: Avoid First-Match Bias Do NOT default to first framework that seems to fit. The best framework might not be the obvious one.

The Complementarity Principle

Title + thumbnail work TOGETHER, not repeat each other.

Example:

  • ❌ Title: "Five Productivity Myths" + Thumbnail: "Five Productivity Myths"
  • ✅ Title: "Five Productivity Myths" + Thumbnail: "You're doing it wrong"

Universalization Strategy (Andrew Muto - July 8)

"Every word after your sexy hook is a filter to lessen the audience."

Examples:

  • ❌ "Five Productivity Myths Every Entrepreneur Believes" (filters to entrepreneurs only)
  • ✅ "Five Productivity Myths" (anyone interested in productivity)
  • ❌ "What to Do When Your Team Doesn't Respect You" (filters to managers)
  • ✅ "How to Handle Disrespect at Work" (universalized)

When to narrow: When targeting specific audience is strategic goal. Otherwise, broaden.

What Makes Hooks Work: 10 Proven Principles

Read the full file on GitHub · 481 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. 4d ago First seen · 481 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 15cbf4a8f38f

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youtube-title-creator is a skill published in the GitHub repository cdeistopened/skill-stack (27 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 3,645 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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