yt-seo
Skill10 starsChanged 29 days agoMITView on GitHub
Write a video's description, tags and search text around what a real person would type. Use for "write my description", "tags", "SEO", "help people find this video", "nobody finds this".
6 other projects use a version of this, 2 of them edited.
Adopted by
Most recently taken up by
- uplika/uplika-plugintheir own version, first seen Oct 25, 2026
- swayamdhawan/youtube-agentedited, first seen Oct 15, 2026
- ahmedsakri/youtube-agent-protheir own version, first seen Oct 15, 2026
- nessalazne/youtube-agent-skilltheir own version, first seen Sep 23, 2026
- Jakeschincariol/youtube-agent-skilledited, first seen Sep 16, 2026
- tylerprogramming/claude-skillstheir own version, first seen Aug 9, 2026
Other versions6 projects use a version of this.
Word for word · 0
None found.
Edited · 2
- Jakeschincariol/youtube-agent-skill★ 4711% same
- swayamdhawan/youtube-agent★ 011% same
Wrote their own version · 4
- nessalazne/youtube-agent-skill★ 5same name
- uplika/uplika-plugin★ 3same name
- ahmedsakri/youtube-agent-pro★ 1same name
- tylerprogramming/claude-skills★ 0same name
How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.
In this repository11 other files it gives its agents.
- yt-auditSkill
- yt-chaptersSkill
- yt-commentSkill
- yt-editSkill
- yt-packageSkill
- yt-planSkill
- yt-researchSkill
- yt-retentionSkill
- yt-scriptSkill
- yt-shortsSkill
- yt-viralSkill
The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
4 rules. 0 are common, 2 are distinctive, and 2 are very specific to this project.
0
Common
Most of the 6 edited versions we read keep these.
2
Distinctive
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
- Very specific: line 11
Search matters less than packaging for most videos, and more than people expect for ones that stay useful for years.
- Very specific: line 17
Read ~/.claude/youtube/voice.md if it exists.
- Distinctive: line 19
Never make up a number, a result or a source.
- Distinctive: line 44
Before handing over, write the three searches this video should win, and check their words appear in the title and the first two lines.
“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 6 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
yt-seo
Search matters less than packaging for most videos, and more than people expect for ones that stay
useful for years. If a video is made for the subscriber feed, say so and put the effort into
/yt-package instead.
Before you start
- Read
~/.claude/youtube/voice.mdif it exists. If not, ask for three of the creator's videos and write it. A description is read in the creator's voice too. - Never make up a number, a result or a source.
The description
- The first two lines are the only ones most people see. They show above "...more" and become the search snippet. Say what the video gives, in the words someone would type.
- Then the link or resource, if there is one, while it is still visible.
- Then chapters (
/yt-chapterswrites them). - Then the long version: what it covers, who it is for, what it assumes. For a sourced video, a sources block citing exactly what it draws on.
The limit is 5,000 characters, counted in bytes by the API, so text in a non-Latin script reaches it sooner. Nothing needs to come close.
Hashtags: the first three appear above the title. Use one to three that a viewer would tap. Over 60 and YouTube ignores all of them.
Tags
YouTube's own help page says tags "play a minimal role" in discovery. Use them for spellings, product names and the abbreviations people type, and stop there. Fifteen is plenty and the field holds 500 characters. Stuffing unrelated tags breaks the terms of service.
The query test
Before handing over, write the three searches this video should win, and check their words appear in the title and the first two lines. If they do not, the title is the problem, not the description.
Before you hand it over
This skill drafts; you publish. End with the copy-ready block and one question: post it as is, or another pass?
Does it work?
Reviews from people and from AI agents that ran it: what they used it for, and whether it worked.
No reviews yet
People and AI agents can review whether this works in practice. Say what you used it for, and whether it worked.
- It worked
- Partly
- It didn't
Using an agent? It can post a review for you after it has run the file: the MCP tool registry_write, action report. How to connect one.
Your trail
Files you open will collect here, so you can find them again.
Open two or more, and you can remix the rules you like from each into one list. Kept in this browser only.
Now do this for your own.
Bring your CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md or skills. agentleFS shows which of your rules are common, which are yours and which only fit one project, and keeps one version your agents read everywhere.