podguy-youtube-publisher

podguy-youtube-publisher is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from modem-dev/podguy. It costs 46 tokens per session (1,412 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for uploading, scheduling, and managing podcast episode videos on YouTube.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to upload episodes, schedule releases or premieres, set thumbnails and captions, manage playlists, and check upload status.
Why use it?
It turns prepared episode information into YouTube uploads while keeping uploads private by default until publishing is deliberately confirmed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/modem-dev/podguy/podguy-youtube-publisher
Any agent
npx skills add modem-dev/podguy --skill podguy-youtube-publisher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/modem-dev/podguy

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,412 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00046 $0.01412
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00706
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00282
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00141

Measured 5d ago against content hash 68b829a2ad42, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

podguy-youtube-publisher 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 5d 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.

src/podguy-youtube-publisher/SKILL.md · 117 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 117 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

podguy YouTube Publisher

Use this skill when the user asks to upload an episode to YouTube, schedule a premiere/publish time, set thumbnails or captions, add uploads to a playlist, or check upload status.

This skill complements podguy-post-production:

  • pi does editorial judgment: drafting the title, description, tags, and chapter list
  • scripts/youtube_publish.py does deterministic YouTube Data API calls
  • uploads default to private so publishing stays a deliberate, reviewable step

One-time setup

If the user has never authenticated, walk them through it:

  1. Create a Google Cloud project and enable YouTube Data API v3.
  2. Create an OAuth client of type Desktop app (APIs & Services > Credentials).
  3. Save the downloaded JSON to ~/.config/podguy/youtube/client_secret.json.
  4. Run the auth flow (opens a browser):
uv run --group youtube python scripts/youtube_publish.py auth

The token is cached at ~/.config/podguy/youtube/token.json. Both paths can be overridden with --client-secrets / --token or PODGUY_YT_CLIENT_SECRETS / PODGUY_YT_TOKEN.

Personal-channel projects can stay in OAuth "testing" mode with the user's account added as a test user. Two caveats to surface:

  • Videos uploaded through unverified API projects may be locked private until the project passes a YouTube API audit, so verify scheduling behavior before relying on it.
  • While the OAuth app is in Testing mode, Google expires refresh tokens after about 7 days; expect to re-run the auth command periodically (or move the consent screen to "In production" to stop the expiry).

Inputs to gather

  1. Final episode video path (a real export, not a review cut).
  2. Episode slug, e.g. ep006, to find existing analysis artifacts.
  3. Title — draft from show notes if not provided; max 100 characters.
  4. Description — prefer composing a dist/analysis/<slug>/youtube-description.md from show notes.
  5. Chapters — reuse dist/analysis/<slug>/chapters.md when it exists (YouTube parses 00:00 Title lines; the first chapter must start at 00:00).
  6. Privacy and timing — private (default), unlisted, public, or scheduled via --publish-at.
  7. Optional: thumbnail image, SRT captions from the transcript run, playlist.

Read the full file on GitHub · 117 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. 5d ago First seen · 117 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 68b829a2ad42

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podguy-youtube-publisher is a skill published in the GitHub repository modem-dev/podguy (47 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 1,412 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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