Write and lint the title and thumbnail for a YouTube video as one pairing, checking truncation, duplication and vagueness before publish.

MITAuto-check passedMedia & Creative

Install Yt Package

skills CLI
$ npx skills add Jakeschincariol/youtube-agent-skill --skill yt-package -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install Jakeschincariol/youtube-agent-skill yt-package --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Jakeschincariol/youtube-agent-skill.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/yt-package .claude/skills/yt-package && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
yt-package
GitHub stars
795
Token cost
~576 tokens
SKILL.md length
320 words
Files
2
Skills in repo
11
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Write and lint the title and thumbnail for a YouTube video as one pairing, checking truncation, duplication and vagueness before publish.

  • Works in 2 steps: Read ~/.claude/youtube/voice.md if it… → Never invent a number, a result or a…
  • What should I call this
  • SKILL.md covers Before you write, Rules the tool enforces, and why, Write ten, keep two and The gate
  • Runs Python scripts from its folder; calls python3

What it does

Yt Package is an agent skill from Jakeschincariol/youtube-agent-skill. Write and lint the title and thumbnail for a YouTube video as one pairing, checking truncation, duplication and vagueness before publish. Use for "title ideas", "what should I call this", "thumbnail text", "my CTR is bad", packaging, or any request to rename or repackage an existing video.

Its SKILL.md is about 580 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 1 other file (for example `title.py`).

It sits in Media & Creative. It works with YouTube. The repository describes itself as: Eleven Claude skills that run a YouTube channel: scripts off 21 hook formulas with a scored hook, title and thumbnail linted as one pairing, an edit decision list from your… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • What should I call this
  • Any request to rename
  • Repackage an existing video

Example prompts

  • “title ideas”
  • “what should I call this”
  • “thumbnail text”
  • “/yt-package”

Requirements

  • Python 3

Workflow steps

2 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Read ~/.claude/youtube/voice.md if it exists. That is the user's voice profile: how they talk
  2. Never invent a number, a result or a source. If a figure would strengthen it and you do not have

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit a2feb21. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Ships script files (Python), which the agent can run.

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • python3

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Yt Package loads about 576 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 75 tokens; SKILL.md has 320 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~75
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~576

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from Jakeschincariol/youtube-agent-skill at commit a2feb21, republished under its MIT licence (© Jakeschincariol). 320 words, ~576 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/yt-package/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
yt-package
description
Write and lint the title and thumbnail for a YouTube video as one pairing, checking truncation, duplication and vagueness before publish. Use for "title ideas", "what should I call this", "thumbnail text", "my CTR is bad", packaging, or any request to rename or repackage an existing video.

yt-package

The title and the thumbnail are ONE unit. Writing them separately is why most packaging fails: the thumbnail repeats the title, and half the click surface says the same thing twice.

bash
python3 title.py --title "..." --thumb "AI RAN IT"
python3 title.py titles.txt            # one per line, ranked

Before you write

  1. Read ~/.claude/youtube/voice.md if it exists. That is the user's voice profile: how they talk on camera, the words they never use, who they are talking to, what they will not claim. If it does not exist, ask for three of their own videos, read or transcribe them, infer the voice, and write the file. A script in the wrong voice is worse than no script, because they have to read it out loud.
  2. Never invent a number, a result or a source. If a figure would strengthen it and you do not have one, ask for it or write the line without it.

Rules the tool enforces, and why

  • 60 characters is where desktop search truncates, 40 is a mobile home feed. Both are reported because they fail differently: a desktop cut loses the tail, a mobile cut can lose the subject.
  • The thumbnail must not repeat the title. Different words, same promise.
  • Three words maximum on the thumbnail. At feed size a fourth word is a grey smear.
  • A number, a name or a date beats every adjective available to you.
  • Two all-caps words is the ceiling before a title reads as spam.

Write ten, keep two

Generate ten titles, run them all through title.py, show the user the top three with their scores and the specific issue on each. For the winner, write the thumbnail brief: the expression, the framing, the three words, and what the background has to do to hold contrast at feed size.

The gate

Nothing here publishes. This skill writes and you publish. Every output ends in a block the user copies, and the last line of every run is the question: ship it, or change it?

© Jakeschincariol, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file in skills/yt-package of Jakeschincariol/youtube-agent-skill.

  • SKILL.md
  • title.py

Open the folder on GitHubat commit a2feb21

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Questions about Yt Package

What does Yt Package do?

Write and lint the title and thumbnail for a YouTube video as one pairing, checking truncation, duplication and vagueness before publish. Yt Package is an agent skill from Jakeschincariol/youtube-agent-skill. Write and lint the title and thumbnail for a YouTube video as one pairing, checking truncation, duplication and vagueness before publish.

When should I use Yt Package?

Yt Package fits situations like: what should I call this; any request to rename; repackage an existing video.

How do I install Yt Package in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add Jakeschincariol/youtube-agent-skill --skill yt-package -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/yt-package in Jakeschincariol/youtube-agent-skill) into .claude/skills/yt-package in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Yt Package in Codex?

Run `npx skills add Jakeschincariol/youtube-agent-skill --skill yt-package -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/yt-package in Jakeschincariol/youtube-agent-skill) into .agents/skills/yt-package in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Yt Package in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add Jakeschincariol/youtube-agent-skill --skill yt-package -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/yt-package, .gemini/skills/yt-package, .github/skills/yt-package and .opencode/skills/yt-package in your project.

What does Yt Package need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Yt Package needs Python for the scripts in its folder and the command-line tools its instructions call (python3). Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Yt Package access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Yt Package safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Yt Package use?

Yt Package is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Yt Package use?

About 576 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Yt Package?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Yt Package: Native Subtitle Quote Image (chengyi-ai/native-subtitle-quote-image, 2.4k stars), Video Spec Builder (feicaiclub/video-spec-builder, 1k stars), Video Data (oxylabs/agent-skills, 875 stars) and Motion Video in Remotion (ooiyeefei/ccc, 494 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Yt Package?

Jakeschincariol (a GitHub user) maintains it in Jakeschincariol/youtube-agent-skill, which has 795 GitHub stars. The repository holds 11 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 16, 2026.

Source: Jakeschincariol/youtube-agent-skill on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.