sermon-to-youtube

sermon-to-youtube is a skill for Claude Code from tkcostello/pastor-ai-skills. It costs 33 tokens per session (2,225 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for preparing a published YouTube package from a sermon video. It covers the title, description, timestamps, tags, thumbnail direction, and a short clip to extract.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create upload-ready YouTube text, thumbnail concepts, and one short-form clip idea from a sermon title and transcript.
Why use it?
It helps viewers find and understand a sermon online when a basic title or an unstructured upload does not explain what the video contains.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Part of the pastor-skills plugin — 15 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to create upload-ready YouTube text, thumbnail concepts, and one short-form clip idea from a sermon title and transcript.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tkcostello/pastor-ai-skills/sermon-to-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 tkcostello/pastor-ai-skills --skill sermon-to-youtube
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tkcostello/pastor-ai-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pastor-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills.

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,225 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 $0.00033 $0.02225
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.01112
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00445
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00222

Measured 13d ago against content hash c29f5c5925ee, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sermon-to-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 13d 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/sermon-to-youtube/SKILL.md · 211 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 211 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Sermon to YouTube

Upload your sermon so people actually find it.

Before writing: follow the pastor-foundation skill and load the church profile from ~/.claude/pastor-profile.md. If the profile file is missing, run the pastor-setup skill first.


What This Skill Does

You uploaded your sermon to YouTube. Maybe you titled it "Sunday Service 4/6/26" and called it a day. Maybe it's been sitting at 14 views for six months, mostly from your mom and one guy from the prayer chain.

YouTube is the second-largest search engine in the world. People search it every day for answers to the exact questions your sermon addressed. The gap between "no one finds this" and "hundreds of people find this" is not production value. It is optimization.

This skill takes your sermon title and transcript and produces a complete, ready-to-upload YouTube package: titles that rank, a description that works, tags that matter, thumbnail concepts a designer can execute, and one short-form clip worth pulling immediately.


Input

Provide the following:

  • Sermon title (working title or series title is fine, it will be improved)
  • Sermon transcript (full preferred; partial works if it covers the key moments)
  • Optional: Approximate sermon length in minutes (used to estimate timestamps)

If you have a YouTube channel description or your church's standard "about" text, include it. It will be used in the description's about section.


Workflow

Step 1: Analyze the Sermon

Before generating anything, read the transcript and identify:

  • Core topic. One sentence. What question does this sermon answer, or what truth does it establish?
  • Key moments. The 4-8 most distinct movements: opening, first major point, story/illustration, scripture exposition, application, call to action, close. These become timestamps.
  • Emotional peaks. Where does the content hit hardest? The story that lands. The turn. The line people write down. These are short-form candidates.
  • Searchable angles. What would someone type into YouTube to find this sermon? Think: "how to trust God when life falls apart," "what does the Bible say about anxiety," "Romans 8 explained." Not "Week 4: Anchor Series."

Read the full file on GitHub · 211 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. 13d ago First seen · 211 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A c29f5c5925ee

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sermon-to-youtube is a skill published in the GitHub repository tkcostello/pastor-ai-skills (52 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 2,225 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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