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Youtube Verdict

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Pre-watch decision tool for YouTube videos. Use when the user pastes a YouTube URL and asks "is this worth watching", "should I watch this", "should I skip this", "watch or skip", "give me a verdict on this video", "is this YouTube video any good", or wants a pre-watch summary that ends in a recommendation. Returns WATCH or SKIP with a 0–10 score (5 and 6 disallowed — the tool commits), a best-minutes range, substance density (concrete vs vague claims, evidence shown, pitches), and a who-should-watch / who-should-skip split. Also catches **clickbait thumbnails** — when the host LLM has vision capability, the skill extracts text overlays and visual elements from the thumbnail and flags any specific outcome promise (e.g. "$10K/DAY") that the transcript doesn't substantiate. Every flag cites a verbatim quote — from the transcript with a timestamp, or from the thumbnail with the slot `[thumb]`. No hallucinated criticism. For neutral summaries with no judgment use `youtube-summary` instead. Saves the full report to ~/youtube-reports/ and prints a one-glance dashboard inline.

From the source SKILL.md

You are the host agent running this skill. The user has asked whether a YouTube video is worth watching, what's actually in it, or for a pre-watch summary. Your job is to produce a structured report at ~/youtube-reports/{date}-{slug}-{video_id}.md.

What this skill does

Youtube Verdict is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the content-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/youtube-verdict/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when the user pastes a YouTube URL and asks "is this worth watching", "should I watch this", "should I skip this", "watch or skip", "give me a verdict on this video", "is this YouTube video any good", or wants a pre-watch summary that ends in a recommendation. Returns WATCH or SKIP with a 0–10 score (5 and 6 disallowed — the tool commits), a best-minutes range, substance density (concrete vs vague claims, evidence shown, pitches), and a who-should-watch / who-should-skip split.

Who uses this skill

The Youtube Verdict Claude Code skill is built for content creators, marketers, copywriters, SEO professionals, and editorial teams. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 69,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/youtube-verdict
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/youtube-verdict/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/youtube-verdict/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/youtube-verdict/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/youtube-verdict/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\youtube-verdict\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

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