YouTube Marketing Skills

The AI layer that replaces VidIQ, TubeBuddy, and your YouTube marketing team.

21 commands. Live keyword data. Pushes directly to YouTube. Publishes to WordPress. Knows your channel, your products, your audience — not a generic creator's.

Works With

VidIQ gives you a score. This gives you a workflow.

One sale from a plugin demo video = 50,000 ad views. This tool knows that. VidIQ doesn't.

21 Commands

Live Channel Tools (10 Tools)

Direct read/write access to your YouTube channel. Everything runs on your machine via OAuth2 — nothing sent to third parties.

What's Inside

skills/youtube-marketing/
  SKILL.md              ← entry point — configure your channel here
  sub-skills/           ← 21 command files
  references/           ← 9 knowledge guides (algorithm, analytics, SEO, Shorts, retention...)
  templates/            ← 6 channel type configs
  execution/            ← helper scripts
references/
  whitepapers.md        ← full citation database (14 studies)

Setup

Prerequisites: Node.js 18+, Google Cloud project with YouTube Data API v3 + YouTube Analytics API, OAuth 2.0 credentials (Desktop app type).

Install

# One-line install
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/adityaarsharma/youtube-marketing-skills/main/install.sh | bash

# Or via npm
npx youtube-channel-mcp

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

Authenticate

node auth.js

Opens a browser for OAuth. Saves tokens.json locally.

Add to Claude Code

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

Add to Claude Desktop

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube-marketing": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["youtube-channel-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Remote Mode — Team Access

MODE=remote PORT=3001 node server.js

Configure for Your Channel

Open skills/youtube-marketing/SKILL.md and set your constants once:

Channel: [Your channel name and handle]
Products: [Your products + pricing URLs]
Discount code: [Your code]
Best publish time: [Your timezone]
Fixed description links: [Your product/docs/community URLs]

Every command now knows your business. /youtube-seo writes descriptions with your links. /youtube-funnel audits your actual product pages. /youtube-batch-seo updates your real videos.

Pick your channel type from skills/youtube-marketing/templates/:

Research Foundation

Every recommendation is grounded in published data — not opinions.

Full citations: references/whitepapers.md

Compatible Integrations

License

MIT — Aditya Sharma