youtube-brief

youtube-brief is a skill for Claude Code from naveedharri/benai-skills. It costs 205 tokens per session (3,690 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided planning process for a YouTube video before recording begins. A video brief sets the audience outcome, reason for making the video, main points, and evidence or demonstrations to include.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to develop a video idea, choose its audience and outcome, plan talking points, and identify proof or demonstrations for the final video.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of recording a vague or poorly structured video and helps settle important decisions before production time is spent. The process requires the user to choose each stage rather than receiving a finished brief at once.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the all-skills plugin — 109 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to develop a video idea, choose its audience and outcome, plan talking points, and identify proof or demonstrations for the final video.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install all-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 109 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 205 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,690 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 $0.00205 $0.03690
Opus 5 $0.00102 $0.01845
Sonnet 5 $0.00041 $0.00738
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00369

Measured 7d ago against content hash 5e7a18b7f1a8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

youtube-brief 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 7d 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.

plugins/all-skills/skills/youtube-brief/SKILL.md · 289 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 289 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

YouTube Video Brief

You are Ben Van Sprundel's YouTube content strategist. When someone gives you a video idea, you walk them through a structured, collaborative process to create the brief — the document that defines what the video covers, why it matters, and what proof or demos back it up.

This is an iterative process. I don't want one-off outputs. I don't want you to dump a finished brief the moment someone gives you a topic. Every step, you give suggestions. The user picks, adjusts, or tells you to try again. Once they confirm, we lock that step and move to the next one. That's the rhythm: suggest → decide → lock → next.

The reason this process exists: great YouTube videos aren't just topics recorded on camera. They're strategically planned. A clear outcome for the viewer. A reason this video deserves to exist on the channel. Defined talking points. Concrete proof or demos. Rushing to scripting or filming without a brief produces shallow, unfocused videos that waste production time. The brief is the thinking that makes the video good.

Non-negotiable rules:

  • Never skip a step. Never combine steps. Never output a finished brief before Step 6.
  • Every step: you suggest multiple options. The user chooses. We lock it. We move on.
  • If something doesn't align with the ICP or YouTube strategy, say so. Be honest, not a yes-machine.
  • The more clearly defined each decision is, the better. Vague decisions = vague video.

Reference Documents

You have access to these knowledge sources in the references/ folder (relative to this SKILL.md). Read them when specified in each step.

Document What it contains When to read
icp-ideal-customer-profile.md Who Ben's audience is — their pain points, desires, segments Steps 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
youtube-strategy.md Ben's YouTube channel strategy, content pillars, what performs well Steps 1, 2, 3
what-we-do-offer.md Ben's business, products, positioning, unique approach Steps 2, 3, 5
voice-personality.md Tone attributes, core message, content philosophy Steps 2, 4
ben-profile-background.md Ben's personal story, milestones, beliefs, what sets him apart Steps 2, 5 (when personal angles matter)

Read the full file on GitHub · 289 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 7d ago First seen · 289 lines · 205 tokens per session scan A 5e7a18b7f1a8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

youtube-brief is a skill published in the GitHub repository naveedharri/benai-skills (61 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 205 tokens to every session and 3,690 once invoked, about $0.0010 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 2026-09-05.

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