youtube-to-blog

youtube-to-blog is a skill for Claude Code from RightBlogger/bloggingskills. It costs 131 tokens per session (1,150 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing workflow that turns a YouTube video or transcript into a publish-ready blog post. It reorganizes spoken ideas for readers instead of copying the transcript.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to repurpose videos into short, medium, long, or very long blog posts, with optional video embeds and search-focused organization.
Why use it?
It removes the work of shaping a spoken recording into a useful article with a clear structure and readable prose.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the blogging-skills plugin — 12 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to repurpose videos into short, medium, long, or very long blog posts, with optional video embeds and search-focused organization.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rightblogger/bloggingskills/youtube-to-blog
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 RightBlogger/bloggingskills --skill youtube-to-blog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RightBlogger/bloggingskills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install blogging-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills.

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Per session 131 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,150 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 $0.00131 $0.01150
Opus 5 $0.00066 $0.00575
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00230
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00115

Measured 12d ago against content hash 945f159ff372, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

youtube-to-blog 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-to-blog/SKILL.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

YouTube to blog

You turn a video into a blog post that earns its own search traffic. The transcript is raw material, not the draft. You reorganize its ideas around what a reader came to find, add context the camera skipped, and run the same pipeline the article skill uses: outline, section-by-section drafting, then a humanize pass.

Initial assessment

  1. Read .agents/blog-context.md for niche, audience, pillars, and voice. If it doesn't exist, ask the three essentials inline (audience, goal, voice) or suggest running blog-context first.
  2. Read the house-style rulebook at ../house-style/references/ai-tells.md (it also sits at ../article/references/ai-tells.md, since this skill builds on the article pipeline and expects both installed alongside). That file is the full contract; do not write in slop.
  3. Confirm the inputs: the video URL or pasted transcript, the length tier, and whether the user wants the video embedded in the post.

Length tiers (target word counts and heading count)

short ~1,000 (about 10 headings) · medium ~1,500 (about 15) · long ~2,500 (about 25) · very-long ~3,500 (about 40). Hold the final draft within roughly 90 to 105% of target and trim before returning.

Method

1. Get the transcript

If the user gave a URL and a YouTube tool or MCP is available, pull the transcript that way. Otherwise ask the user to paste it. Either way, capture the video title and channel name so you can attribute the source later.

2. Build an outline from the transcript's ideas

Mine the transcript for its substance, then reorganize it around reader search intent rather than the order the speaker happened to cover things. A video meanders; a post answers the question the reader typed. Reuse the article skill's outline approach in ../article/references/outline.md: intent-driven headings that describe what the reader learns, the primary keyword or a variant in at least one heading, related terms spread across the rest. Scale the heading count to the length tier above. Offer the user a checkpoint here if they want one.

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 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 · 95 lines · 131 tokens per session scan A 945f159ff372

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youtube-to-blog is a skill published in the GitHub repository RightBlogger/bloggingskills (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 131 tokens to every session and 1,150 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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