youtube-seo-keywords

youtube-seo-keywords is a skill for Claude Code from deeployCO/youtube-seo-skills. It costs 70 tokens per session (2,316 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research guide for finding YouTube keywords and video topics by studying search intent, related terms, competing videos, and seasonal interest. Search intent means what a person is trying to find when they enter a query.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to expand seed ideas, classify keywords, inspect ranking videos, assess topic difficulty, identify seasonal patterns, and plan connected topic clusters.
Why use it?
It helps turn a broad subject into specific topics people may search for. It also organizes related topics so a channel can build authority around a subject over multiple videos.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to expand seed ideas, classify keywords, inspect ranking videos, assess topic difficulty, identify seasonal patterns, and plan connected topic clusters.

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

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,316 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 $0.00070 $0.02316
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.01158
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00463
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00232

Measured 12d ago against content hash 9b97d9e70fae, 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-keywords 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-keywords/SKILL.md · 209 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 209 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

YouTube Keyword & Topic Research (Advanced)

Process

  1. Capture seed: keyword, channel URL, or niche description. If only a channel URL is provided, extract 5-10 seed topics from:
    • The channel's top 25 videos by views (title + description entities)
    • The channel's topic IDs from channels.list?part=topicDetails
  2. Expand the seed set to 100-300 candidate keywords from first-party sources only (third-party tools like VidIQ, TubeBuddy, Ahrefs, and SocialBlade rate-limit and generate errors — avoid them):
    • YouTube suggest API (https://suggestqueries.google.com/complete/ search?client=firefox&ds=yt&q={seed}) — no key, returns JSON, iterate by appending a-z to the seed for long-tail expansion
    • YouTube Data API search.list?part=snippet&q={seed}&type=video — surface the top 50 ranking titles and mine their titles/tags for co-occurring terms
    • yt-dlp ytsearch50:{seed} as an API-less equivalent
    • Google autocomplete (suggestqueries.google.com/complete/search? client=firefox&q={seed}) for parent-topic discovery
    • User-provided seed list or topic outline
  3. Classify intent for each keyword:
    • Informational ("what is ...", "how does ... work")
    • Tutorial ("how to ...", "... tutorial", "step by step")
    • Commercial / Review ("... review", "best ...", "... vs ...")
    • Entertainment (celebrity names, event names, memes)
    • News / Topical (breaking or time-sensitive)
    • Navigational (brand or channel names) → Each intent class maps to a different video format and surface.
  4. Classify primary surface:
    • Search-dominant: "how to", "tutorial", long-tail specific queries
    • Browse-dominant: broad topics, personalities, trending
    • Suggested-dominant: sits adjacent to an existing popular video
  5. Entity mapping: for each keyword, identify the Knowledge Graph entities involved (people, brands, products, concepts). Group keywords that share entities into topic clusters.
  6. Competition analysis per keyword (top 10 SERP):
    • Median subscriber count of ranking channels
    • Median video age (weeks)
    • Median view count
    • Presence of mega channels (>1M subs) in top 3
    • Thumbnail/title quality median (estimate)
    • SERP features (Shorts shelf, mix shelf, promoted result)
  7. Seasonality: pull Google Trends 5-year curve per keyword cluster. Classify:
    • Evergreen: flat or slowly rising
    • Seasonal: predictable annual peak (gift guides, tax season)
    • Trending: fast-rising, <6 months of data
    • Decaying: fast-dropping
  8. Opportunity scoring (refined formula below)
  9. Cluster keywords into 3-6 topic buckets with a pillar + satellites shape optimized for topical authority
  10. Content calendar (optional) with pillar cadence and reactive slots

Read the full file on GitHub · 209 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 · 209 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 9b97d9e70fae

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youtube-seo-keywords is a skill published in the GitHub repository deeployCO/youtube-seo-skills (9 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 2,316 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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