youtube-scout
CLAUDE.md35 starsChanged 2 months agoMITView on GitHub
Claude Code skill: /scout <topic> turns one topic into a ranked YouTube research workbook. Read SKILL.md for the runtime contract and README.md for the product view. - Source of truth is this checkout. ~/.claude/skills/scout/ is an installed copy; after changing scripts/scout.py or SKILL.md, run ./install.sh to refresh it. - Quality gate: python -m pytest (offline, fixtures under tests/fixtures/) and ruff check .. Every behaviour change ships with a test. - Never commit API keys, .env files, generated workbooks, downloads, or…
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The file
We split this CLAUDE.md into the rules it gives an agent
4 rules. About 0 are common, 2 are distinctive, and 2 are very specific to this project.
≈0
Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
≈2
Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
2
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- could be automatic: a setting could enforce it
- Very specific: line 4
Read SKILL.md for the runtime contract and README.md for the product view.
- Very specific: line 12
Never commit API keys, .env files, generated workbooks, downloads, or the probe cache.
- Distinctive: line 15
No em dashes anywhere: code, comments, docs, commits.
- Distinctive: line 16
Commit messages: imperative sentence case, git commit -s.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 26,980 CLAUDE.md files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
youtube-scout
Claude Code skill: /scout <topic> turns one topic into a ranked YouTube research workbook.
Read SKILL.md for the runtime contract and README.md for the product view.
Working in this repo
- Source of truth is this checkout.
~/.claude/skills/scout/is an installed copy; after changingscripts/scout.pyorSKILL.md, run./install.shto refresh it. - Quality gate:
python -m pytest(offline, fixtures undertests/fixtures/) andruff check .. Every behaviour change ships with a test. - Never commit API keys,
.envfiles, generated workbooks, downloads, or the probe cache.tests/test_repo_hygiene.pyfails on em dashes, local absolute paths, key file references, credential-shaped strings, and tracked workbooks. Keep it that way. - No em dashes anywhere: code, comments, docs, commits.
- Commit messages: imperative sentence case,
git commit -s. Nogit add -A; add files by name. - The API key comes from
YOUTUBE_API_KEYor a key file the user names viaSCOUT_ENV_FILE. Load the user's key file into the environment for the command; never copy the key into the repo or print it. - The repository is public. Never commit anything that should not be public.
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