youtube-thumbnail

youtube-thumbnail is a skill for Claude Code from hassancs91/claude-youtube-editor. It costs 141 tokens per session (2,154 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for creating YouTube thumbnail images from a chosen concept and specific style choices, such as the setting, text amount, extra elements, and accent color. It renders and checks the resulting frames.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for creating or revising high-contrast YouTube thumbnails, including changes to their visual elements and layout.
Why use it?
It helps turn a video idea into a clear thumbnail while checking that the wording is sharp and the image makes an honest promise about the video.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Good fit It is for creating or revising high-contrast YouTube thumbnails, including changes to their visual elements and layout.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hassancs91/claude-youtube-editor/thumbnail
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 hassancs91/claude-youtube-editor --skill thumbnail
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hassancs91/claude-youtube-editor

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 141 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,154 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 $0.00141 $0.02154
Opus 5 $0.00071 $0.01077
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00431
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00215

Measured 11d ago against content hash 70cafb4a127e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

youtube-thumbnail 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 11d 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.

.claude/skills/thumbnail/SKILL.md · 134 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 134 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

YouTube Thumbnail Generator

Turns a thumbnail concept into rendered, verified frames — with the style built from an element menu you pick from, not a fixed template. One number matters: CTR.

Division of labor: /packaging decides what to bet on (one fixed title, 3 distinct thumbnail levers, honesty checks). This skill decides what the frame looks like and renders it. Run standalone for iteration ("give me a new B"), or let packaging Stage 5 delegate here. Both inherit two non-negotiables from packaging:

  • Honesty guardrail — the frame must promise only what the video keeps.
  • Loud-vs-calm — thumbnails are deliberately louder than brand.md. Never tone down to match the in-video brand.

The baseline look (always on, never asked about)

Every render, regardless of selections: high contrast (deep darks OR clean brights, never flat) · vibrant saturated color with one accent doing the work · clear focal hierarchy (headline → hero object → face, three steps max) · big high-energy positive face from the media/library/faces/ kit · premium, clickable finish — crisp edges, no clutter · every text element perfectly spelled and razor sharp.

These came from a real before/after CTR comparison (the "Image 13" guide, 2026-08): the flat, low-contrast, no-hierarchy frame lost to the bold high-contrast hierarchical one ~4.4x on views. The axes are always-on; the decorations below are strictly opt-in.

The element menu (opt-in — this is what you ask about)

Exact prompt language for every element lives in references/style-elements.md. Summary:

Element What it is Cost
single-hook ONE text element, huge (word or number) the default; cleanest
tiered-headline small white italic context line + huge green grunge power line +1 text block
sticker tilted yellow badge, black caps, red underline, arrow to the hero +1; ≤2 short words or it garbles
checkstrip slim bottom strip, 3 green-check benefits +3 micro-texts; busy fast
brush-tag brush-stroke tag at strip end (e.g. WITH CLAUDE) +1
results-fan fan/burst of result cards from the hero (pure imagery, no lettering) busy-frame risk
glow-burst neon energy + particles radiating from the hero cheap, usually worth it
real-logo pass the actual logo file as a --ref so it renders faithfully extra ref
real-app-screen pass a real UI screenshot as a --ref for the on-screen app extra ref; micro-text caveat

Read the full file on GitHub · 134 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 11d ago First seen · 134 lines · 141 tokens per session scan A 70cafb4a127e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

youtube-thumbnail is a skill published in the GitHub repository hassancs91/claude-youtube-editor (303 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 141 tokens to every session and 2,154 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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