Creative Director
smixs/creative-director-skill
AI creative director with recursive self-assessment. An agent skill from smixs/creative-director-skill.
When the user wants to understand their YouTube audience, mine viewer psychology, analyze demographics, or find content-market fit signals.
$ npx skills add TheCraigHewitt/skills --skill audience-research -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install TheCraigHewitt/skills audience-research --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheCraigHewitt/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/youtube/audience-research .claude/skills/audience-research && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "audience-research" agent skill from https://github.com/TheCraigHewitt/skills/tree/main/youtube/audience-research into .claude/skills/audience-research/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "audience-research", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/TheCraigHewitt/skills/tree/main/youtube/audience-researchType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add TheCraigHewitt/skills --skill audience-research -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install TheCraigHewitt/skills audience-research --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheCraigHewitt/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/youtube/audience-research .agents/skills/audience-research && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "audience-research" agent skill from https://github.com/TheCraigHewitt/skills/tree/main/youtube/audience-research into .agents/skills/audience-research/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "audience-research", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add TheCraigHewitt/skills --skill audience-research -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install TheCraigHewitt/skills audience-research --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheCraigHewitt/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/youtube/audience-research .cursor/skills/audience-research && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "audience-research" agent skill from https://github.com/TheCraigHewitt/skills/tree/main/youtube/audience-research into .cursor/skills/audience-research/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "audience-research", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/TheCraigHewitt/skills.git --path youtube/audience-research--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add TheCraigHewitt/skills --skill audience-research -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install TheCraigHewitt/skills audience-research --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheCraigHewitt/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/youtube/audience-research .gemini/skills/audience-research && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "audience-research" agent skill from https://github.com/TheCraigHewitt/skills/tree/main/youtube/audience-research into .gemini/skills/audience-research/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "audience-research", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install TheCraigHewitt/skills audience-researchInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add TheCraigHewitt/skills --skill audience-research -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheCraigHewitt/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/youtube/audience-research .github/skills/audience-research && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "audience-research" agent skill from https://github.com/TheCraigHewitt/skills/tree/main/youtube/audience-research into .github/skills/audience-research/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "audience-research", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add TheCraigHewitt/skills --skill audience-research -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install TheCraigHewitt/skills audience-research --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheCraigHewitt/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/youtube/audience-research .opencode/skills/audience-research && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "audience-research" agent skill from https://github.com/TheCraigHewitt/skills/tree/main/youtube/audience-research into .opencode/skills/audience-research/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "audience-research", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
audience-researchWhen the user wants to understand their YouTube audience, mine viewer psychology, analyze demographics, or find content-market fit signals.
Audience Research is an agent skill from TheCraigHewitt/skills. When the user wants to understand their YouTube audience, mine viewer psychology, analyze demographics, or find content-market fit signals. Also use when the user says 'who is my audience,' 'audience research,' 'viewer psychology,' 'what does my audience want,' 'comment analysis,' 'demographic insights,' 'content-market fit,' 'understand my viewers,' 'audience persona.' For channel-level health check, see channel-audit. For generating ideas from audience insights, see idea-generation.
Its SKILL.md is about 2.4k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
It sits in Marketing & SEO, covering Market research and Brainstorming. It works with YouTube. The repository describes itself as: AI skills for founders, sales teams, and creators. 47 skills across CEO, Sales, YouTube, and General categories. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and any agent that reads… The licence is MIT.
5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit fdbf39b. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
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.
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are markdown).
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Audience Research loads about 2.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 127 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,032 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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.
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.
The full file from TheCraigHewitt/skills at commit fdbf39b, republished under its MIT licence (© TheCraigHewitt). 1,032 words, ~2,403 tokens.
.claude/skills/audience-research/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).You are a YouTube audience researcher who has helped creators understand their viewers deeply enough to consistently create content that gets clicked and watched. You know that most creators make content based on what THEY want to make, not what their AUDIENCE wants to watch -- and this gap is the #1 reason channels stall. You don't just look at demographics. You mine comments, study behavior patterns, and build viewer profiles that inform every content decision. You think in terms of content-market fit, not just "who watches my videos."
Check if .agents/youtube-context.md exists in the project root.
The highest-signal, lowest-effort research method.
What to mine:
How to mine:
YouTube Studio Audience Tab:
Traffic Sources:
Your competitors' audiences overlap with yours. Study them:
What your potential audience is searching for reveals what they want:
For creators with a community or email list:
Build a rich viewer profile, not just demographics:
## Viewer Profile: [Segment Name]
### Demographics
- **Age range:** [X-Y]
- **Primary geography:** [Countries/regions]
- **Job/role:** [What they do]
### Psychographics
- **What they're trying to accomplish:** [Their goal]
- **What's frustrating them:** [Their pain]
- **What they're afraid of:** [Their fear]
- **What "success" looks like to them:** [Their aspiration]
- **How they describe their problem:** [Their exact language from comments]
### Viewing Behavior
- **When they watch:** [Time of day, day of week]
- **How they find you:** [Search, browse, suggested, external]
- **What they watch next:** [Types of content they binge]
- **What makes them subscribe:** [The trigger]
- **What makes them comment:** [The catalyst]
### Content Preferences
- **Topics they click on:** [Based on CTR data]
- **Topics they watch longest:** [Based on retention data]
- **Format preference:** [Tutorial, story, comparison, etc.]
- **Length preference:** [Based on retention data by video length]
### Quotes (from comments)
- "[Exact comment that reveals their mindset]"
- "[Exact comment that reveals their need]"
- "[Exact comment that reveals their language]"## Audience Research: [Channel Name]
### Key Findings
1. **[Finding]** — [Evidence + implication for content]
2. **[Finding]** — [Evidence + implication for content]
3. **[Finding]** — [Evidence + implication for content]
### Viewer Profile
[Complete viewer profile using the template above]
### Content-Market Fit Assessment
- **Status:** [Strong fit / Emerging fit / No clear fit]
- **Evidence:** [What signals indicate this]
- **Gaps:** [Where fit is weakest]
### Content Recommendations
Based on this research:
1. **Make more:** [Topic/format that aligns with audience demand]
2. **Make less:** [Topic/format that audience doesn't engage with]
3. **Test:** [One hypothesis about audience preference to validate]
### Language Bank
[5-10 phrases from comments that should appear in future titles and hooks]© TheCraigHewitt, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file
Just SKILL.md in youtube/audience-research of TheCraigHewitt/skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit fdbf39b
Audience Research next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Audience Research this skillTheCraigHewitt/skills | 159 | — | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Creative Directorsmixs/creative-director-skill | 247 | — | ~5.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | CC-BY-4.0 | |
| Comment MiningScrapeCreators/social-media-research-skills | 3.4k | — | ~1k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | |
| Customer Researchunifapi-agent/agents | 589 | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Blog DiscourseAgriciDaniel/claude-blog | 2.3k | 1 repos | ~3.4k | Automated safety check: Warn | MIT | |
| Youtube Channel API Skillbrowser-act/skills | 6.1k | 1 repos | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
smixs/creative-director-skill
AI creative director with recursive self-assessment. An agent skill from smixs/creative-director-skill.
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When the user wants to understand their YouTube audience, mine viewer psychology, analyze demographics, or find content-market fit signals. Audience Research is an agent skill from TheCraigHewitt/skills. When the user wants to understand their YouTube audience, mine viewer psychology, analyze demographics, or find content-market fit signals.
Audience Research fits situations like: wants to understand their YouTube audience; mine viewer psychology; analyze demographics; find content-market fit signals.
Run `npx skills add TheCraigHewitt/skills --skill audience-research -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (youtube/audience-research in TheCraigHewitt/skills) into .claude/skills/audience-research in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
Run `npx skills add TheCraigHewitt/skills --skill audience-research -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (youtube/audience-research in TheCraigHewitt/skills) into .agents/skills/audience-research in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add TheCraigHewitt/skills --skill audience-research -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/audience-research, .gemini/skills/audience-research, .github/skills/audience-research and .opencode/skills/audience-research in your project.
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Audience Research is instructions for the agent only.
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.
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.
Audience Research is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
About 2.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 9.6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Audience Research: Creative Director (smixs/creative-director-skill, 247 stars), Comment Mining (ScrapeCreators/social-media-research-skills, 3.4k stars), Customer Research (unifapi-agent/agents, 589 stars) and Blog Discourse (AgriciDaniel/claude-blog, 2.3k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
TheCraigHewitt (a GitHub user) maintains it in TheCraigHewitt/skills, which has 159 GitHub stars. The repository holds 65 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on May 22, 2026.
Source: TheCraigHewitt/skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.