Youtube Research is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the science-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/youtube-research/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when researching a video topic before planning, analyzing video transcripts for viral patterns, searching competitor channels, or fetching video and channel stats via the YouTube Data API v3.
The Youtube Research skill is built for researchers, data scientists, academics, and analysts working with complex data and scientific literature. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/youtube-research curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/youtube-research/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/youtube-research/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/youtube-research/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/youtube-research/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\youtube-research\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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