An 11-Person Team for Your YouTube Channel: Which Claude Skill Does Which Job, and How to Install It

YouTube Agent Skill is a free, open-source (MIT license) package of 11 Claude skills written for a YouTube channel. A skill is a ready-made instruction package that has Claude do a specific job in a specific way; it's called with a command like /yt-script. It doesn't ask for sign-up, an API key or a channel connection. It doesn't publish anything for you: it writes and checks; you do the uploading.

The smoothest path is Claude Code (Claude running on your computer; it requires a paid Claude subscription or a Console account). If it's not installed, paste irm https://claude.ai/install.ps1 | iex into PowerShell on Windows or curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash into Terminal on Mac, then type claude in the terminal and sign in with your Claude account. Details are on the official installation page. The six Python tools in the package (hook score, title check, cut list, etc.) only work fully in an environment that can run files, like Claude Code.

Open Claude Code; you'll see an empty chat. Copy the two lines below exactly as they are, paste them and send. Claude downloads the repository and installs the skills; if it asks for permission, read and approve. Replies come in the language you ask in, so you can ask in English (or Turkish, for example).

If you want to install it yourself, run these two commands in the terminal (Git must be installed). The skills are copied into the ~/.claude/skills/ folder and show up in all your projects. If you only want to use them in one project, copy the same folders into that project's .claude/skills/ folder. If you want to install it as a plugin, type /plugin marketplace add Jakeschincariol/youtube-agent-skill inside Claude Code, followed by /plugin install youtube-agent.

Close and reopen Claude Code and type /: if commands like /yt-script and /yt-package appear in the list, the install is complete. To try it, type /yt-script and describe a video idea in one sentence (e.g., "A video showing cafe owners how to shoot menu photos in 3 minutes"). You can also send the command empty; Claude will ask you for the missing information.

Every skill in the package reads the voice.md file, which describes the way you talk; this file shapes the result more than anything else. The file lives at ~/.claude/youtube/voice.md. The easiest way: send Claude the scripts of your own 3 best videos (the captions/transcript in YouTube Studio) and say "write my voice.md from these." The template has these headings: who you're talking to, how you talk, words you never use, phrases you use often, things you won't claim, and your video format.

Give it a one-sentence video idea. It first suggests 5 opening lines from 21 hook formulas and scores them; once you pick one, it writes a marked-up voiceover script. Read the hook out loud; the score is an estimate, and the final call is yours.

Give it the title and the text that will go on the thumbnail together. It checks the two as a single package: does the title get cut off, does the thumbnail text repeat the title, is it vague. It doesn't draw the thumbnail image; it fixes the text and how the two match.

Give it the caption file (.srt) of your footage. It lists dead air, filler words and retakes down to the second; you make the cuts in your own editing program by following the list. With the same transcript, /yt-shorts pulls Shorts candidates out of the long video, and /yt-chapters produces chapter titles that follow YouTube's rules.

Copy and paste the comments into it. It sorts the comments into four piles, writes reply drafts in your tone and tells you which one you should pin. You read the replies and send them yourself.

Tell it how many hours a week you can spare. It lays out a realistic week: 1 main video, 1 light video and 3 Shorts.

Tell it a few channels in your niche. It ranks videos not by raw views but by how many times they beat each channel's own average, and names the pattern in the title. It only reads public lists and doesn't log into your account; it needs at least 4 videos per channel.

Give /yt-retention the audience retention data you downloaded from YouTube Studio; it shows at which second, and while you were saying what, viewers left. /yt-seo writes the description, the tags that actually help, and the 3 searches the video should win. /yt-audit reviews the whole channel and ends with a single fix.

• Start of the week: /yt-plan → pick an idea from /yt-viral.
• Prep: /yt-script → /yt-package.
• After filming: /yt-edit → /yt-shorts → /yt-chapters → /yt-seo.
• After publishing: /yt-comment; a few days later, /yt-retention.
• Once a month: /yt-audit.

No step publishes for you; each one ends with text for you to copy.