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AI agent skills for YouTube research. Outlier videos, niche finding & validation, competitor research, comment mining, title formulas, thumbnail concepts, script breakdowns, monetization gaps & sponsor prospecting. Powered by TubeLab. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, ChatGPT, Grok.
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youtube-research-skills is an open-source ai agents skill for AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, and ChatGPT, built by TubeLabHQ. AI agent skills for YouTube research. Outlier videos, niche finding & validation, competitor research, comment mining, title formulas, thumbnail concepts, script breakdowns, monetization gaps & sponsor prospecting. Powered by TubeLab. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, ChatGPT, Grok. It has 51 GitHub stars.
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youtube-research-skills is primarily written in JavaScript. It is open-source under TubeLabHQ on GitHub, so you can review or fork the full source.
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Practical AI agent skills for YouTube research, powered by the TubeLab MCP.
These skills help agents find niches that are working, bend a proven format into a new market, explain why a video broke out, write trend reports, generate ideas and titles for a channel, analyze a channel, reverse engineer how a channel grew, research thumbnails, map competitors, mine comments and transcripts, audit monetization, find sponsors, build sponsor prospect lists for brands, and watch a niche over time.
Together they work like a full YouTube agency with six roles: a niche scout, a validator, a trend analyst, a script analyst, a packaging team and a monetization team. It runs on your machine or in your chat app, through your own agent and your own TubeLab account.
This is not endpoint routing. Each skill is a short research workflow: the judgment an expert strategist brings, the traps to avoid, and the report to produce. Every number comes from a tool response, every finding carries a linked channel and title, a view count, an outlier ratio and a date.
npx skills add TubeLabHQ/youtube-research-skills
Works with Claude Code, Cursor, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, VS Code, Grok Build, and other agents that support the Agent Skills spec.
Grok Build reads skills from .grok/skills/ in a repo or ~/.grok/skills/, so a copy of the skills/ folder is enough:
git clone https://github.com/TubeLabHQ/youtube-research-skills && cp -r youtube-research-skills/skills/* ~/.grok/skills/
Claude Code can also install it as a plugin, which registers the MCP at the same time:
claude plugin marketplace add TubeLabHQ/youtube-research-skills
claude plugin install youtube-research@tubelab
Connect the TubeLab MCP once in your client: https://public-api.tubelab.net/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http tubelab https://public-api.tubelab.net/mcp. The first call opens OAuth.SKILL.md, and ask it to save each one as a skill, starting with tubelab-mcp. Skills are shared by all your Bots; if a Bot cannot find one, open Connect apps and enable it under Private skills./mcps modal.Authorization: Bearer <key> (Pro plan).cd skills && zip -r niche-finder.zip niche-finder/), upload it under Customize > Skills, turn it on, and Claude loads it when a request matches. Upload tubelab-mcp too; the workflow skills name it..agents/skills/ of a repo; Codex also installs them with $skill-installer.skills/tubelab-mcp/SKILL.md and then the skill you want into the chat. Every skill is one file, so this works as is.Setup guides per client: tubelab.net/docs/api/mcp-server. The MCP is included from the Starter plan. Searches cost credits (channels 5, outliers 2, trending formats 1); channel, video, transcript and comment reads are free.
| Skill | Use it when you want to... | Output |
|---|---|---|
niche-finder |
Find breakout channels and cash cows with two preset searches, and turn them into new niche ideas | Ten ranked niche ideas, each with proof and a way to earn beyond AdSense |
niche-bending |
Bend the proven format of one channel, or of channels that already earn, into a new market or language | Four to six ranked bends, each shown as the source niche and the bend with their thumbnails, with proof, who already does it, and first titles |
niche-watchlist |
Watch a niche and get the delta since the last run, on a schedule | Dated digest of new and moving channels, each with a short analysis: worth studying or not, working topics, title formulas, best recent video. Config and state files |
| Skill | Use it when you want to... | Output |
|---|---|---|
niche-validator |
Decide go or no-go on one niche, or compare a shortlist of up to three, with the Niche Analyzer scores and the agent's own read next to them; a new idea is scored on the two niches it draws on | Market Size, Unsaturated and Profitable scores, formula and own read, verdict, channels breaking in, formats, gaps, bending ideas, entry plan; a comparison table first for a shortlist |
| Skill | Use it when you want to... | Output |
|---|---|---|
trend-report |
See what is working in a niche or for a channel, and why | Up to five winning videos with verbatim hooks and why they worked, patterns, ideas |
| Skill | Use it when you want to... | Output |
|---|---|---|
script-breakdown |
Break down a video's structure, hook and beats from its transcript. Given a niche or a channel, it picks the top videos itself | Hook verbatim, typed beats with linked timestamps, one-line layout, optional skeleton |
| Skill | Use it when you want to... | Output |
|---|---|---|
title-formulas |
Get titles you can publish, built on formulas from the trending index, your niche and neighbouring niches. Pairs with thumbnail-concepts: titles first |
About eight titles with proof, plus a table of their formulas with each one's source, proven or untested |
thumbnail-concepts |
Get thumbnail concepts that join your video's new angle with the problem your viewers know. Pairs with title-formulas: the thumbnail for the chosen title |
50 or more thumbnails viewed, the patterns in the ones worth studying, three concepts that combine them, images or prompts |
| Skill | Use it when you want to... | Output |
|---|---|---|
monetization-research |
Find monetization gaps and what to sell for your channel (the creator's side), from how peers and same-audience channels earn | Table of monetization method gaps, best first, with linked peer offers; the brands that sponsor channels like yours; three products to test |
sponsorship-prospecting |
Find YouTube channels to sponsor for your product, matched to your buyer (the brand's side) | 10 to 15 scored prospects with audience, current sponsors and contact path; the best fits with an outreach angle and a cost band; a CSV |
| Skill | Use it when you want to... | Output |
|---|---|---|
channel-analysis |
Analyze a channel: positioning, what works, what is holding it back | One-line diagnosis, what works, what holds it back, next 3 tests |
reverse-engineer-channel |
Reverse engineer how a channel you admire grew, from its whole video list: turning points, formats, thumbnails and hooks | Growth timeline, turning points, formats, the best ten videos against the worst ten, hooks word for word, how it earns, five moves to copy, each with the skill and prompt to run next, and the moves to skip |
competitor-research |
Compare a channel against 12 to 15 real neighbours: peers, leaders and fast risers | How the set was built, comparison table, gaps, positioning |
| Skill | Use it when you want to... | Output |
|---|---|---|
comment-mining |
Mine top comments for questions, objections, requests and audience language | Themes with verbatim quotes and likes, top comments, the audience's words, video ideas |
| Skill | Use it when you want to... | Output |
|---|---|---|
video-ideation |
Get ranked video ideas for one channel from three sources: its own winning formats, its niche and related niches, plus same-audience channels on request | About ten ideas, each with a twist and linked proof, ranked by potential and fit |
| Skill | Use it when you want to... | Output |
|---|---|---|
tubelab-mcp |
Drive the TubeLab tools well: costs, craft rules, quirks found in testing, and where the full API reference lives | Rules the other skills rely on; no artifact |
Every skill is one SKILL.md. Real outputs for every skill are in examples/. Ordered chains for common jobs are in playbooks/, including youtube-agency.md, which runs all six roles from a blank page to a first video and a monetization plan.
The plugin also ships six agents, one per role. Each one is a thin wrapper: it loads the skills for its role and returns the finished report.
| Agent | What it does | Skills it loads |
|---|---|---|
🔭 niche-scout |
Finds breakout channels and cash cows and turns them into ten niche ideas, bends a proven format into new markets, or watches a niche over time | niche-finder, niche-bending, niche-watchlist |
⚖️ validator |
Scores a niche, or a shortlist of up to three, a |