youtube-channel-breakdown

youtube-channel-breakdown is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nikhilbhansali/youtube-data-skills. It costs 84 tokens per session (3,438 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for collecting data about a YouTube channel and writing an expert analysis document for a live-stream show. YouTube is a video platform where channels publish videos and build audiences.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyze a channel such as @hubspotmarketing, @aliabdaal, or @mkbhd and produce a channel_analysis.md report.
Why use it?
It brings channel research and analysis into one repeatable process instead of requiring separate manual data collection and writing.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Not installable: its command points at a path on the author’s own machine, so it runs nowhere else. The line is /Users/nikhilbhansali/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox/Claude.

Good fit Use it to analyze a channel such as @hubspotmarketing, @aliabdaal, or @mkbhd and produce a channel_analysis.md report.

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Getting it into your agent

There is no command for this one: it runs only inside a plugin, and the catalogue could not identify which plugin ships it. The source is linked below.

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,438 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.
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 $0.00084 $0.03438
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.01719
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00688
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00344

Measured 12d ago against content hash 02f26efce0ec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

youtube-channel-breakdown 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.

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.

skills/youtube-channel-breakdown/SKILL.md · 391 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 391 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

YouTube Channel Breakdown Analysis

Comprehensive YouTube channel analysis pipeline for the Channel Breakdown Live Stream show. Runs the data collection pipeline, reads all collected data, and writes a single expert analysis document.

Usage

/youtube-channel-breakdown @channelhandle

Examples:

  • /youtube-channel-breakdown @hubspotmarketing
  • /youtube-channel-breakdown @aliabdaal
  • /youtube-channel-breakdown @mkbhd

What This Skill Does

  1. Data Collection - Runs the Python pipeline to fetch ALL videos from the channel
  2. Expert Analysis - Reads all collected data and writes channel_analysis.md

The single deliverable is channel_analysis.md — a 4,000-5,000 word expert analysis written from the perspective of a YouTube strategist.

External Dependency

Unlike the other YouTube skills, this one does not bundle its own collection script. It drives the external Channel_Breakdown_Live_Stream pipeline (channel_research_pipeline.py), which lives outside this repo.

The pipeline directory is read from the CHANNEL_BREAKDOWN_PIPELINE_DIR environment variable, falling back to:

/Users/nikhilbhansali/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox/Claude Projects/Onewrk Digital Marketing and content research/07_Documentation/Channel_Breakdown_Live_Stream/scripts

Instructions

When the user invokes this skill with a channel handle:

Step 1: Locate the Pipeline

PIPELINE_DIR="${CHANNEL_BREAKDOWN_PIPELINE_DIR:-/Users/nikhilbhansali/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox/Claude Projects/Onewrk Digital Marketing and content research/07_Documentation/Channel_Breakdown_Live_Stream/scripts}"
test -f "$PIPELINE_DIR/channel_research_pipeline.py" && echo "FOUND: $PIPELINE_DIR" || echo "MISSING"

If the pipeline is missing, stop and tell the user:

This skill depends on the external Channel_Breakdown_Live_Stream pipeline (channel_research_pipeline.py), which I can't find at <the path that was checked>. Where is that pipeline located? Once you tell me, I'll use it — or you can set CHANNEL_BREAKDOWN_PIPELINE_DIR to its directory so this skill finds it automatically next time.

If you don't have that pipeline, use youtube-own-channel-analyzer (channel health), youtube-competitor-analyzer (competitive position), and youtube-comment-miner (audience analysis) instead — together they cover most of what this report needs.

Read the full file on GitHub · 391 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. 12d ago First seen · 391 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A 02f26efce0ec

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youtube-channel-breakdown is a skill published in the GitHub repository nikhilbhansali/youtube-data-skills (2 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 3,438 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 2026-08-31.

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