yt-competitive-analysis

yt-competitive-analysis is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ericosiu/ai-marketing-skills. It costs 52 tokens per session (768 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for comparing YouTube channels and finding unusually successful videos. It looks for videos with at least twice a channel’s usual views and examines their titles and presentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to study competitor channels, spot viral video patterns, and find ideas for titles and video packaging.
Why use it?
It replaces guesswork with patterns drawn from competitors’ recent channel performance.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to study competitor channels, spot viral video patterns, and find ideas for titles and video packaging.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ericosiu/ai-marketing-skills/yt-competitive-analysis
About the project

AI Marketing Skills is a collection of open-source workflows that help AI coding agents handle marketing and sales work, including growth experiments, pipeline management, content operations, outbound outreach, SEO, and finance analysis. It is intended for marketing and sales teams that want reusable agent-driven processes. The catalogue entries package these workflows as skills for compatible coding agents.

ericosiu/ai-marketing-skills · 3,521 stars · on GitHub · singlegrain.com

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 ericosiu/ai-marketing-skills --skill yt-competitive-analysis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ericosiu/ai-marketing-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 768 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00052 $0.00768
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00384
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00154
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00077

Measured 12d ago against content hash da7d4d51eb76, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

yt-competitive-analysis 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (analyze.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

yt-competitive-analysis/SKILL.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

YouTube Competitive Analysis

Outlier detection and packaging pattern extraction for YouTube channels.

When to Use

  • User asks for YouTube competitive analysis
  • User wants to find viral video patterns
  • User wants packaging/title inspiration from specific creators
  • User wants to track competitor YouTube performance

Prerequisites

  • YouTube Data API v3 key set as $YOUTUBE_API_KEY

Usage

# Analyze specific channels
python3 analyze.py "$YOUTUBE_API_KEY" --channels "@handle1,@handle2" --days 30

# Use predefined sets
python3 analyze.py "$YOUTUBE_API_KEY" --set ai
python3 analyze.py "$YOUTUBE_API_KEY" --set business
python3 analyze.py "$YOUTUBE_API_KEY" --set both

# Export formats
python3 analyze.py "$YOUTUBE_API_KEY" --set both --output json
python3 analyze.py "$YOUTUBE_API_KEY" --set both --output console

Predefined Channel Sets

AI Creators: Jeff Su, Alex Finn, Riley Brown, Dan Martell, Matt Wolfe, Nate Herk, Grace Leung, Matt Berman

Business Creators: Alex Hormozi, Gary Vaynerchuk, Patrick Bet-David, Codie Sanchez, Leila Hormozi, Iman Gadzhi, My First Million

Output Interpretation

  • Multiplier: Times above channel average (2.0x = double normal)
  • Outlier threshold: 2x average. Study anything above this.
  • Title patterns: Common words in outlier titles indicate proven formats
  • Cadence: Videos per week. Higher cadence creators may have lower per-video averages.

Channel Analytics Feedback Loop

Competitive analysis is only half the loop. When you have access to the channel's own analytics, compare candidate packaging against actual performance after publish.

Before recommending a package:

  • Pull channel baseline by topic, title pattern, thumbnail pattern, length, publish day/time, and format.
  • Check impressions, CTR, average view duration, retention curve, watch time, subscribers gained, comments, and traffic source.
  • Compare the proposed title/thumbnail/hook against similar historical videos and competitor outliers.

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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. 12d ago First seen · 88 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A da7d4d51eb76

Subscribe to this mod's changes

yt-competitive-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository ericosiu/ai-marketing-skills (3,521 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 768 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 2026-08-30.

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