youtube-seo-competitor

youtube-seo-competitor is a skill for Claude Code from deeployCO/youtube-seo-skills. It costs 82 tokens per session (2,361 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for studying competing YouTube channels, their videos, and their publishing patterns. It examines titles, thumbnails, opening hooks, transcripts, pacing, and gaps in a channel's content.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find comparable channels, study their successful formats and viewer-retention techniques, and identify content opportunities.
Why use it?
It helps replace guesswork about what works on YouTube with patterns found in relevant competitor videos.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to find comparable channels, study their successful formats and viewer-retention techniques, and identify content opportunities.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/deeployco/youtube-seo-skills/youtube-seo-competitor
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add deeployCO/youtube-seo-skills --skill youtube-seo-competitor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/deeployCO/youtube-seo-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,361 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 $0.00082 $0.02361
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.01180
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00472
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00236

Measured 12d ago against content hash 99cc41ab2a9f, 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-competitor 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-competitor/SKILL.md · 255 lines

How it starts

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YouTube Competitor Intelligence (Advanced)

Competitor analysis on YouTube is about pattern extraction, not imitation. Find what works, understand why, and apply the mechanism (not the surface form) to the user's channel.

Process

1. Identify competitors

If the user provides a competitor list → use it and add 1-2 mid-tier comparables. Otherwise derive competitors using only first-party sources (no third-party analytics tools — they rate-limit or error):

  • From target keywords (preferred): call the YouTube Data API search.list?part=snippet&type=video&order=viewCount&q={keyword} for the user's 3-5 primary keywords. Cluster the results by channelId and pick the 5 channels that appear most often in the top 20.
  • API-less fallback: yt-dlp "ytsearch20:{keyword}" --flat-playlist -J returns the same ranked list with channel IDs — no API key, no scraping.
  • From the user's channel: read the relatedPlaylists + featuredChannelsUrls (brandingSettings) via the API. As a secondary signal, pull the top 10 videos' descriptions via fetch_channel.py and extract @handle / channel-URL mentions.
  • Tier balance: include 1-2 channels 5-10× the user's subscriber size (aspiration) and 2-3 within 2-5× (comparable).

If all of the above fail or the API quota is exhausted, ask the user for 3-5 competitor channel URLs directly rather than falling back to third-party scrapers.

2. Collect per-competitor data

For each competitor (use scripts/fetch_channel.py + API where possible):

  • Channel stats: subs, total views, video count, join date, country, topic IDs
  • Upload cadence: last 25 videos → median + stddev of days-between
  • Format mix: long-form / Shorts / live / premiere percentages
  • Top 10 all-time by view count
  • Top 10 last-90-days (recent winners — more actionable)
  • Bottom 10 last-90-days (what is NOT working — as informative as the winners)
  • Median stats: length, views per video, like-to-view ratio, comment velocity
  • Playlist structure: count, median size, top playlist view counts
  • Community tab activity (last 30 days)
  • Thumbnail contact sheet: last 12 thumbnails as a 4x3 grid
  • Title corpus: all titles from last 50 uploads
  • Caption/transcript for top 5 videos via yt-dlp (used for hook extraction)

Read the full file on GitHub · 255 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 · 255 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A 99cc41ab2a9f

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youtube-seo-competitor is a skill published in the GitHub repository deeployCO/youtube-seo-skills (9 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 2,361 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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