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YouTube Marketing Skills

Build a YouTube personal brand with live channel data, AI-generated SEO, and organic-only growth strategy — no paid ads, no $99/month subscription.

21 commands · 10 live channel tools · Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI · MIT

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⭐ Star Goal: 500 in 30 days → unlocks v1.1 (CTR rescue + plateau buster + outlier detector)

⭐ Star this repo if you've ever spent a Sunday planning a video that got 43 views. Every star tells me what to ship next — and v1.1 unlocks at 500.

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What This Is

An agent-agnostic skill suite + MCP server that connects your AI agent of choice to your real YouTube channel — reads your private analytics, writes SEO back to YouTube, and publishes companion posts to WordPress. Works with Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, OpenAI Codex, Gemini CLI, or any MCP-compatible client. Not locked to any single LLM or vendor.

Three things no other YouTube AI tool does:

1. Reads your private analytics via OAuth — watch time, retention %, traffic sources, demographics. Not just public stats anyone can scrape.
2. Writes back to YouTube — pushes updated titles, descriptions, and tags directly from your agent. No opening YouTube Studio.
3. Double-ranks on Google — publishes a companion WordPress post with VideoObject schema so the same topic ranks on both Google and YouTube simultaneously.

/youtube-ideate  →  /youtube-script  →  /youtube-seo  →  push to YouTube
                                                        ↓
                                         /youtube-wp-post  →  published to WordPress

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Who This Is For

Built for developers, consultants, and product makers who use YouTube to build authority — not entertainment creators chasing trending content.

• You make tutorials, walkthroughs, or educational content in your niche
• You want organic-only growth — no paid ads, no bought subscribers, no gaming the system
• You have a product, service, open-source project, or community to grow through video
• You want evergreen content — videos that get discovered for years, not just 48 hours after upload

One subscriber from your niche is worth more than 10,000 random views. This tool understands that.

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Quick Start

Full guide: INSTALL.md.

Requirements: Node.js 18+, Google Cloud project with YouTube Data API v3 + YouTube Analytics API enabled, OAuth 2.0 Desktop credentials.

# 1. Clone + install
git clone https://github.com/adityaarsharma/youtube-marketing-skills.git
cd youtube-marketing-skills && npm install

# 2. Drop your Google OAuth credentials.json into the directory

# 3. Authenticate — opens browser once, saves tokens locally
node auth.js

# 4. Install the skill files into your agent
cp -r skills/youtube-marketing ~/.claude/skills/

Add the MCP server to your agent's config (~/.claude/settings.json, ~/.cursor/mcp.json, etc.):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/full/path/to/youtube-marketing-skills/server.js"]
    }
  }
}

Open your agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, Gemini CLI — any MCP+Skills client) and type /youtube-strategy. You now have all 21 commands + live channel data + SEO write-back.

A no-install hosted option is coming soon for users who don't want to set up Node + Google Cloud.

Add to Claude Code settings.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["youtube-channel-mcp"]
    }
  },
  "skills": ["/path/to/youtube-marketing-skills/skills/youtube-marketing/SKILL.md"]
}

Configure your channel once — open skills/youtube-marketing/SKILL.md and set:

Channel: [Your channel name and handle]
Products: [Your products with URLs]
Best publish time: [Your optimal time + timezone]
Fixed links: [Product / docs / community URLs to embed in every description]

Every command now knows your business. Start with:

/youtube-ideate

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21 Commands

Strategy & Planning

Production

SEO & Upload

Analytics & Optimization

Growth & Expansion

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Live Channel Tools

What makes this different from every other YouTube AI skill: it connects to your real channel.

Direct read/write via OAuth2. Runs entirely on your machine — your data never leaves your computer.