WORDYOUTUBE
11 free YouTube skills for Claude
Open source, for Claude Code: hook-first scripts, title and thumbnail, Shorts and a retention reader. It writes; you upload.
Checked by the Ninja on Nov 5, 2026Pick your way
Free or with the Ninja Skill?
FreeUS$ 0You do it yourself
Ninja SkillUS$ 4.99Coming soon
Language
English, with US examples
Brazilian Portuguese (no English version yet)
Where it runs
Claude Code, in the terminal
Claude (even the free plan), ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude Code
Getting started
Terminal commands and a file to fill in
Upload the zip to Claude or attach the file in ChatGPT and type “começar” (start)
Your channel
You fill in the voice file yourself
3 questions become a channel profile you paste into later chats
Hook and title scores
Built for English
Built for Portuguese, with the reason for each score
Video ideas
Finds what's trending with yt-dlp, in the terminal
No paid tools: YouTube search, comments and the Studio Research tab, and it says when it's a guess
Studio numbers
Reads your exported retention file
Paste the numbers or a screenshot: it answers “is this bad?” and gives ONE change for the next video
Cutting silence
Yes: with a Whisper transcript and the terminal
No: the Ninja writes, it doesn't edit video
Not for sale yet
What the Ninja checked
Safe to use, if you have Claude Code- ✓MIT license: free to use, even commercially
- ✓4.6K stars and 1.4K forks on GitHub
- ✓Plain code: 6 small Python scripts, standard library only, no internet, no passwords (the Ninja read each one)
- ✓It never publishes or logs into your channel: it writes, you upload
- !Not maintained: published Sep 16, 2026 and never updated; 13 fixes from other people are still waiting
- !Word counts only see a to z: accented and non-Latin words are miscounted (the Ninja checked the code)
- !Needs Claude Code and a terminal; the silence cutter also needs Whisper, and the trend finder needs yt-dlp
See the project on GitHub ↗Source: the repository itself, on the day it was checked.
Free
The free route, in 3 steps
Get Claude Code
The original is built for Claude Code, which runs in your terminal, and it also needs Git and Python 3. Without Claude Code, the author says you can paste a single SKILL.md at the top of a chat, but you lose the scoring tools.
Copy the skills
In your terminal, from any folder:
Terminalgit clone https://github.com/Jakeschincariol/youtube-agent-skill.git cp -r youtube-agent-skill/skills/yt-* ~/.claude/skills/
Describe your voice, then ask
The author asks for ten minutes on a file about how you talk. Copy the template:
Terminalmkdir -p ~/.claude/youtube cp youtube-agent-skill/templates/voice.md ~/.claude/youtube/voice.md
Open
~/.claude/youtube/voice.md, fill it in, then in Claude Code ask for/yt-script(script),/yt-package(title and thumbnail),/yt-shorts(Shorts) or/yt-retention(retention).
The safe way to use it
- It only writes. None of the 11 skills publishes or logs into your channel. If anything asks for your Google password, stop.
- Install from the right address: github.com/Jakeschincariol/youtube-agent-skill. There are over 1,400 forks out there, and a copy may have been changed.
- Rules change. Music, Shorts and monetization rules move often; check YouTube Studio.
- A score is not a promise. The hook and title scores help you pick; your viewers decide how the video does.