youtube-seo

youtube-seo is a skill for Claude Code from deeployCO/youtube-seo-skills. It costs 108 tokens per session (3,669 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of tools for improving YouTube channels and videos so they are easier to discover and more likely to keep viewers watching.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps review a channel, analyze a video, choose topics, rewrite titles and descriptions, improve channel presentation, assess thumbnails and study competing channels.
Why use it?
It brings different YouTube tasks—such as audits, keyword research, metadata, thumbnails and competitor checks—under one workflow instead of treating them as unrelated jobs.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit It helps review a channel, analyze a video, choose topics, rewrite titles and descriptions, improve channel presentation, assess thumbnails and study competing channels.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/deeployco/youtube-seo-skills/youtube-seo
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 deeployCO/youtube-seo-skills --skill youtube-seo
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/deeployCO/youtube-seo-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 108 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,669 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 $0.00108 $0.03669
Opus 5 $0.00054 $0.01835
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00734
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00367

Measured 12d ago against content hash 755d0499ea90, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

youtube-seo 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 12d 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.

youtube-seo/SKILL.md · 262 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 262 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

YouTube SEO Orchestrator (Advanced)

Master skill for YouTube SEO work. Detect intent, delegate to the right sub-skill, and provide the shared advanced ranking model that every sub-skill references. If intent is ambiguous, ask once before proceeding.

Routing Table

User intent / input Sub-skill
"audit my channel", channel URL alone, "full YouTube check" youtube-seo-audit
Single video URL, "analyze this video", "why isn't this ranking" youtube-seo-video
"optimize title/description/tags", "rewrite metadata", "improve CTR copy" youtube-seo-optimize
"channel branding", "about page", "banner", "playlists", "channel trailer" youtube-seo-channel
"YouTube keywords", "topic research", "what should I make a video about" youtube-seo-keywords
"thumbnail review", "CTR thumbnail", "is my thumbnail good" youtube-seo-thumbnail
"competitor analysis", "what are [channel] doing", "competing videos" youtube-seo-competitor

Advanced Ranking Model

YouTube's recommender is NOT a keyword-match system. It is a multi-surface reinforcement-learning recommender that optimizes for long-term user satisfaction (the "Reinforce" paper, Covington et al. 2016 + DRL updates). Each surface has its own objective:

Surface Primary objective Dominant signal
Browse (Home feed) Session watch time + return rate CTR-on-impression, persona match, freshness
Suggested (sidebar / autoplay) Next-video watch time Topical adjacency, session continuation, co-view graph
Search Query satisfaction Keyword/entity match, APV for that query, click depth
Shorts feed Swipe-through rate + watch loops Hook in <1s, loopability, audio trend
Notifications Open rate in first hour Subscriber affinity, bell-on CTR history
External Retention of new viewers Intro strength, subscribe-from-external rate

Read the full file on GitHub · 262 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. 12d ago First seen · 262 lines · 108 tokens per session scan A 755d0499ea90

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youtube-seo is a skill published in the GitHub repository deeployCO/youtube-seo-skills (9 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 108 tokens to every session and 3,669 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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