YouTube Channel Skill Generator
Paste a channel. Get back a writing brief for it: an agent skill file that describes how that channel writes, so an assistant can draft new scripts in the same voice.
The brief is built from the channel's public videos and their transcripts: how the openings are built, how the script is paced, how titles and thumbnails are worded, what comes back in every video, and what the channel never does. Every quoted line is checked against a real transcript.
Reading a channel usually takes two to seven minutes, and longer for channels with long videos. You get one free run per day, and the page shows the run's progress while it works.
What you get
SKILL.md
A frontmatter-tagged brief covering identity and niche, audience, voice and diction rules, hook patterns, structure and pacing, titles, thumbnails, recurring segments, the topics covered and the gaps beside them, calls to action, and what to avoid. It closes with a draft checklist and a provenance block naming the videos and transcripts it read.
Reference files
references/hooks.md, references/titles.md, and references/transcript-excerpts.md hold the evidence: real opening lines with their timings, every title analysed, and the transcript passages the claims came from, quoted word for word. A reference file is included when it has evidence to carry.
Markdown and zip
Copy any single file, copy the whole bundle, or download the bundle as one .md file, or as a zip of the Agent Skills folder itself: SKILL.md and its references/, ready to drop into a skills directory.
How it works
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Paste a channel
An @handle, a channel URL, or a link to any video from the channel. The channel its videos belong to is the one that gets read.
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We read the public record
The twelve most recent long-form uploads: titles, descriptions, chapters, view counts, thumbnails, and the original-language transcripts that YouTube publishes on up to twelve of them.
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The channel is written up as a brief
Hook patterns, structure and pacing, title and thumbnail conventions, recurring segments, the topics it covers and the gaps beside them, call-to-action habits, and the moves the channel never makes. A quoted line has to appear word for word in one of the transcripts or it is removed before the file is written.
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Download the skill file
SKILL.md plus its reference files, as one markdown file or as a zip of the skill folder itself: the Agent Skills layout a skills directory expects.
What it does not do
- It reads public data only. It has no access to private analytics, retention curves, traffic sources, revenue, or anything behind a YouTube login, and it asks for no account.
- It needs public captions. If a channel publishes neither manual captions nor YouTube's automatic ones on enough of its uploads, there is no transcript to read and the run stops with that message. Nothing is written from a thumbnail and a title alone.
- It does not predict performance. The file describes how a channel currently writes; it cannot tell you how a new video will be received, what YouTube will recommend, or how any channel will be treated under YouTube's policies.
- It is not a copy of anyone else's script. It describes patterns, not content, so a draft built from it is still written by you and still reviewed by you.
Common questions
What the skill file contains, where the data comes from, and what it cannot tell you.
What does the Channel Skill Generator produce?
A folder of markdown files. SKILL.md is a writing brief for the channel: its niche, audience, voice and diction rules, hook patterns, structure and pacing, title and thumbnail conventions, recurring segments, the topics it covers and the gaps beside them, call-to-action habits, and the moves the channel never makes. It ends with a draft checklist and a provenance block naming the videos and transcripts that were read. references/hooks.md, references/titles.md, and references/transcript-excerpts.md hold the evidence behind the brief: the opening lines and passages there are copied word for word from the transcripts, and the title list is the channel’s own. Each reference file is included when it has evidence to carry. It is the Agent Skills format, so an assistant that supports skills can load the folder directly.
What can I paste into the input?
An @handle such as @maxinomics, a channel URL, or a link to any video from the channel. A video link is resolved to the channel it belongs to.
Where does the data come from?
Only from public data: the channel page, the public video pages, and the captions YouTube publishes on them. Nothing private is read, and no YouTube account is connected.
Which videos are read?
The twelve most recent long-form uploads. Shorts and very short clips are skipped, because a transcript of a few hundred words cannot show how a channel structures a script. From those, a run reads the public transcripts on up to twelve videos. If fewer than four of them have usable captions, it stops and says so instead of guessing.
Does it work on a channel that is not mine?
Yes, as long as the videos and their captions are public. A creator who has asked us not to analyze their channel is excluded.
How long does it take, and what does it cost?
Usually two to seven minutes, and longer for channels with long videos. Generating a skill is free, needs no signup, and is limited to one run per day from one connection. Re-opening a channel generated in the last 7 days returns the stored skill instead of spending another run.
Are the quotes in the skill file real?
They come from the transcripts the run pulled, not from the model’s memory. Every quoted line longer than eight words is matched character for character against those transcripts before the file is written, and a quote that cannot be found word for word is removed rather than shown on looser terms. Shorter quoted phrases are too generic to check mechanically, so they are left to the writer’s instruction to copy only what appears in the transcript.
Is this a prediction of what will perform?
No. It is a description of how a channel currently writes, assembled from its published videos. It cannot tell you what YouTube will recommend, how a new video will retain viewers, or how a channel will be treated under any policy.
How current is the skill file?
It carries the date it was generated, the number of videos and transcripts it read, the upload dates those videos span, whether the transcripts were manual captions or YouTube’s automatic ones, and what the data could not show. A channel’s format changes, so regenerate it when you want a fresh read.
How do I use the file once I have it?
Drop the folder into .claude/skills/ or any harness that loads Agent Skills, or paste SKILL.md into your assistant’s system prompt. Then ask for a draft in the channel’s voice and run it against the draft checklist in the file.
Why did it say there were too few videos?
Two usual reasons: the channel has too few long-form uploads, or too few of its uploads have public captions. Both are reported as they are, because a skill file built from one transcript would describe that video rather than the channel.