youtube-seo

youtube-seo is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kostja94/marketing-skills. It costs 76 tokens per session (955 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for improving YouTube videos and channels so people can find them through YouTube and search engines.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or improve video titles, descriptions, tags, thumbnails, and channel search strategies.
Why use it?
It helps coordinate the title, description, thumbnail, and keywords instead of treating each part separately.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to create or improve video titles, descriptions, tags, thumbnails, and channel search strategies.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kostja94/marketing-skills/youtube
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 kostja94/marketing-skills --skill youtube
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kostja94/marketing-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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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 955 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 $0.00076 $0.00955
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00477
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00191
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00096

Measured 8d ago against content hash 3da4099316a0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

youtube-seo 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 8d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/platforms/youtube/SKILL.md · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Platforms: YouTube SEO

Guides YouTube video and channel optimization for search and discovery. Google now prioritizes YouTube video results in search; YouTube + Reddit comprise ~78% of social media citations in AI Overviews. Title, description, and thumbnail form an interconnected system; channels using systematic keyword strategies see 156% longer view durations, 89% better CTR, and 312% higher search discovery. Use this skill when optimizing videos for YouTube search, Google search, and AI citation. For website-embedded video SEO, see video-optimization.

When invoking: On first use, if helpful, open with 1–2 sentences on what this skill covers and why it matters, then provide the main output. On subsequent use or when the user asks to skip, go directly to the main output.

Initial Assessment

Check for project context first: If .claude/project-context.md or .cursor/project-context.md exists, read Sections 6 (Keywords), 11 (Content Strategy).

Identify:

  1. Video type: Tutorial, review, vlog, Shorts
  2. Target keyword: Primary and secondary
  3. Audience: Subscribers vs casual viewers

Video Titles

Rule Guideline
Length Under 60 characters; mobile may show partial
Keyword Primary keyword in first 5–55 characters
Structure Social proof/authority + emotional trigger + primary keyword
Style Conversational; avoid keyword stuffing
Avoid ALL CAPS except emphasis

Video Descriptions

Rule Guideline
First 2–3 sentences Primary and secondary keywords naturally; meta description under 160 chars
Links Website, store, relevant resources
Readability Natural flow; help search understand topic

Tags

  • Help YouTube understand content; titles and descriptions matter more
  • Use relevant tags; avoid over-optimization

Thumbnails

90% of best-performing videos use custom thumbnails.

Rule Guideline
Contrast High contrast; readable fonts; bold colors
Composition Rule of thirds; simple, uncluttered
Audience Consider subscribers vs casual viewers
Test What works evolves; test styles

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 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. 8d ago First seen · 86 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A 3da4099316a0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

youtube-seo is a skill published in the GitHub repository kostja94/marketing-skills (967 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 955 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 2026-09-03.

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