yt-idea-mine

yt-idea-mine is a skill for Claude Code from not0lucky/tubescout. It costs 84 tokens per session (751 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research workflow for finding product and business ideas on YouTube. It uses search suggestions, popular videos, transcripts, revenue claims, and creators' complaints as evidence.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore a niche, study how creators make money, find rising topics, and turn reported pain points into evidence-based product ideas.
Why use it?
It replaces guessing about a niche with signs of real search interest and examples from people already building in that area. It also helps uncover problems that existing tools may not solve well.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Part of the tubescout plugin — 6 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to explore a niche, study how creators make money, find rising topics, and turn reported pain points into evidence-based product ideas.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/not0lucky/tubescout/yt-idea-mine
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 not0lucky/tubescout --skill yt-idea-mine
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/not0lucky/tubescout

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install tubescout, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 1 MCP server.

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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 751 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 $0.00751
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00376
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00150
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00075

Measured 12d ago against content hash d240fa32e67a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

yt-idea-mine 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/yt-idea-mine/SKILL.md · 48 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 48 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

yt-idea-mine

YouTube is where founders show receipts (dashboards, revenue, playbooks) that never appear in Reddit threads. Mine it systematically instead of watching it.

Process

  1. Map demand. get_search_suggestions on the seed niche term, then on the 3–5 most interesting suggestions (suggestions-of-suggestions). Autocomplete = what people actually type; note language variants (Arabic/French/Spanish suggestions = underserved non-English demand).
  2. Find the case studies. search_videos with 2–4 query shapes:
    • "<niche>" how I make / "<niche>" $ per month (revenue case studies)
    • "<niche>" tutorial sorted by view_count (education demand)
    • upload window month or year, sorted by view_count (what's rising)
  3. Read the best evidence. Pick the 3–6 most-viewed case-study videos (skip pure hype: no numbers in title/snippet, or clickbait engagement patterns) and pull get_transcripts. Extract: business model, revenue claimed, method, tools, and — most valuable — complaints and gaps the creator mentions in passing ("the annoying part is…", "there's no good tool for…").
  4. Synthesize ideas. Each idea must cite its evidence: the demand signal (suggestions/views) + the pain source (video + what was said). Ideas without both get cut. Rate each: demand evidence / competition seen / effort to test.
  5. Filter through the user. Rank ideas against what the conversation reveals about the user's actual capabilities and assets (skills, infrastructure, audience, domain knowledge) — an idea that's a 6/10 in general but sits on the user's unfair advantage outranks a generic 8/10. Say when that reranking happens and why.
  6. Report. Ranked ideas with receipts, then the discarded ones with the reason (saturation, no demand signal, single-source, bad founder-fit).

Rules

  • Cite only URLs returned by tubescout tools in this conversation — never write a YouTube URL or video ID from memory.
  • Never launder a creator's recycled idea as evidence — a video saying "build X, it's a great idea" is not a signal; a creator complaining about a missing tool is.
  • Note each source's incentive (most idea-listicle channels sell idea databases).
  • 10–15 tool calls is the normal budget; go deeper only if the user asks.

Read the full file on GitHub · 48 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 · 48 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A d240fa32e67a

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yt-idea-mine is a skill published in the GitHub repository not0lucky/tubescout (0 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 751 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.