geo-youtube

geo-youtube is a skill for Claude Code from TheSmokeDev/geo-skills. It costs 78 tokens per session (1,925 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for making YouTube videos easier for AI search systems to understand and cite by improving their transcripts, chapters, titles, descriptions, and written claims.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for auditing existing videos and planning new video content intended to appear as a source in AI-generated search answers.
Why use it?
It addresses the problem that AI systems mainly read a video’s text information instead of watching the video itself.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit It is for auditing existing videos and planning new video content intended to appear as a source in AI-generated search answers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/thesmokedev/geo-skills/geo-youtube
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 TheSmokeDev/geo-skills --skill geo-youtube
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheSmokeDev/geo-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,925 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 $0.00078 $0.01925
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00962
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00385
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00193

Measured 12d ago against content hash 75596772c23b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

geo-youtube 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/geo-youtube/SKILL.md · 127 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 127 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

YouTube Citation Playbook Skill

Purpose

This skill turns a YouTube channel into an AI citation source. AI engines do not watch video -- they read the transcript, chapters, title, and description. That makes YouTube a rank-free bypass lane: a channel with no domain authority and few views can earn AI citations that the site's text pages cannot. This skill audits existing videos for citation readiness and produces a build spec for new ones.

Core Insight

YouTube completed the flip in 2026 and is now the dominant non-text citation source:

  • Most-cited domain in Google AIOs overall, with share up +34% over 6 months (Ahrefs Brand Radar, 2026).
  • #1 social citation source at 38.1% of social citations, overtaking Reddit (5WPR State of AI Citations, May 2026).
  • ~23% of finance-vertical citations -- ahead of Wikipedia (7.3%) and LinkedIn (6.8%) (Surfer 46M-citation dataset, 2026).
  • 18.2% of AIO citations from beyond the organic top 100 are YouTube URLs (Ahrefs, 863K SERPs / 4M URLs, Mar 2026) -- the clearest rank-free lane in AI search.
  • YouTube mentions correlate r=0.737 with AI visibility -- the strongest single signal ever measured, ahead of branded web mentions (0.664) (Ahrefs 75K-brand study via MachineRelations, Jul 2026).

The mechanism that matters: AI reads the transcript, chapters, title, and description -- NOT the video itself. Views and subscriber counts show near-zero correlation with citation (⚠️ single source, AIOCopilot Apr 2026 -- but mechanism-consistent, since engines have no visibility into watch metrics at retrieval time).


Citation-Readiness Rubric (per video)

Score each video 0-100 across five components:

Component Weight Full Marks Zero Marks
Transcript quality 30% Human-corrected transcript with citable numeric/definitional sentences Auto-captions left uncorrected, or no captions
Chapter structure 25% 6-12 chapters with descriptive, query-matching titles No chapters, or generic titles ("Part 1", "Intro")
Title match 20% Title is verbatim (or near-verbatim) the target query Clever/branded title with no query language
Length & depth 15% 10+ minutes, substantive per-chapter content Under 3 minutes, or a Short
Cross-posting 10% Video's claims exist as a text page + community answer Video exists in isolation

Read the full file on GitHub · 127 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 · 127 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 75596772c23b

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geo-youtube is a skill published in the GitHub repository TheSmokeDev/geo-skills (22 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 1,925 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 2026-08-30.

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