youtube-seo-channel

youtube-seo-channel is a skill for Claude Code from deeployCO/youtube-seo-skills. It costs 76 tokens per session (2,057 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning guide for improving a YouTube channel’s identity, search visibility, playlists, and publishing rhythm. YouTube SEO means helping the right viewers find videos through search and recommendations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan channel branding, the About page, keywords, playlists, trailers, translated descriptions, community posts, and upload or premiere schedules.
Why use it?
It brings channel-level decisions into one plan instead of treating each video separately. It helps make the channel’s subject, audience, and viewing path clearer.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to plan channel branding, the About page, keywords, playlists, trailers, translated descriptions, community posts, and upload or premiere schedules.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,057 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.
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 $0.00076 $0.02057
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.01028
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00411
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00206

Measured 12d ago against content hash bc0df5e8ced4, 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-channel 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-channel/SKILL.md · 226 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 226 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Channel Setup, Authority & Session Strategy (Advanced)

Channels don't rank — topics and videos rank. But channels accumulate topical authority (the algorithm's classification of what the channel is known for), session contribution (how much watch time the channel drives to YouTube overall), and Browse feed friendliness (cadence + freshness). All three are set at the channel level.

What to Analyze

1. Identity

  • Handle (@name): ≤30 chars, memorable, brand-aligned, no underscores/numbers if avoidable
  • Channel name: ≤30 chars
  • Profile picture: 800x800, readable at 48px (subscriber feed size)
  • Banner: 2560x1440, safe area 1546x423. Must communicate:
    • Value proposition in one line
    • Upload schedule
    • Social proof (subs, press, awards) if relevant
    • Brand colors + logo
  • Watermark subscribe badge: present, positioned last 25% of video
  • Channel trailer set for non-subscribers (60-90s, keyword-rich description, strong hook)
  • Featured video set for subscribers (latest hero)

2. About Page

  • Description: 1,000-5,000 chars. Structure:
    • Elevator pitch (first 150 chars — appears in channel search results)
    • Who the channel is for
    • What viewers will learn / experience
    • Upload schedule
    • Primary + 3-5 secondary keywords naturally placed
    • 5-10 Knowledge Graph entities from the topic cluster for classification
    • Subscribe CTA
  • Channel keywords (Studio → Settings → Channel → Basic info): 10 keywords max, most important first, total <500 chars, must overlap with the entities from the description
  • Links: 3-5 labeled links (website, social, merch, mailing list, Discord)
  • Country: set correctly (regional Browse ranking signal)
  • Business email: present
  • Contact / inquiries link

3. Topical Authority (most important advanced check)

Cluster the channel's last 25 videos by topic (via title + description

  • tag + caption entities). Compute:

Read the full file on GitHub · 226 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 · 226 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A bc0df5e8ced4

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youtube-seo-channel is a skill published in the GitHub repository deeployCO/youtube-seo-skills (9 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 2,057 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 2026-08-31.

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