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yt-retention

Skill10 starsChanged 29 days agoMITView on GitHub

Read a YouTube Studio audience-retention export, find the moments viewers leave, and name the one change to make. Use for "why do people stop watching", "my retention is bad", a retention chart or CSV, or "fix my pacing".

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yt-retention

The retention graph is the most honest feedback a video gets, and most creators never download it.

python3 ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/retention.py retention.csv --duration 600
python3 ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/retention.py retention.csv --duration 600 --transcript transcript.srt

The tools live in this skill's folder. ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR} is that folder in Claude Code; anywhere it does not expand (claude.ai, Codex), use the folder this SKILL.md was loaded from. The transcript reader is ../yt-edit/deadair.py, so install the two together.

Getting the file: Studio → the video → Analytics → Engagement → the audience-retention chart → the download icon → "Audience retention".

What it reads: two columns - a position and the share still watching. The position can be seconds, m:ss, a percent of the video, or a 0-1 ratio as the Analytics API gives it. The header decides when it names the unit; otherwise anything up to 100 is read as percent. If the position is a percent, always pass --duration (the length in seconds) - without it the drops have no timestamps and the transcript cannot tell you what was being said. Ask for the length; do not guess.

Three different problems

  • The opening loss: what goes in the first 30 seconds. Under 25% is healthy. When it is the problem, the fix is always the first fifteen seconds of script, not the edit.
  • Cliffs: single steep drops, a specific moment - a topic change with no signal, a sponsor segment, a long setup. With the transcript, the tool prints what was said there, which is what makes the report useful instead of merely interesting.
  • The slide: the steady loss across the middle. That is pacing, and the fix is cutting, not rewriting.

What to hand back

The biggest problem and one change for it - not five. More only if asked. If the opening is healthy and the slide is flat, say the video is fine and the issue is packaging, and point to /yt-package.

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This skill drafts; you publish. End with the copy-ready block and one question: post it as is, or another pass?

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