This Free Claude Skill Finishes Your YouTube Upload for You
Can Claude write my YouTube title, description, tags and thumbnail for me?
Yes. The free YouTube Upload Assistant skill below reads your video's transcript, writes five title options, a search-ready description, tags and chapters, builds a branded thumbnail, and fills in YouTube Studio. You start the upload, Claude does the rest.
Download the YouTube Upload Assistant
It is one .md file. Grab it here, then keep reading for what it does and how to set it up.
The skill (one .md file): Click here to download the YouTube Upload Assistant
Attach it to a Claude chat and say "use this for my YouTube upload," or install it once as a skill so it's there every time. Both options are explained below.
The boring part of YouTube is what stops most agents
Sellers and relocating buyers research on YouTube long before they call anyone. Neighborhood tours, "cost of living in Denver" videos, market updates and "what happens at closing" explainers keep getting watched months after they go up. That is the whole case for an agent channel.
Filming isn't what stops most agents. It's the 30 minutes after the file finishes uploading. You need a title that earns the click, a description that ranks, tags, chapters, a thumbnail that looks like your brand, and a dozen Studio settings nobody remembers to set.
So the video sits as a draft. Or it goes up with the title "IMG_4471" and no description, and YouTube has nothing to rank it for.
I built this skill for my own channel because I was doing exactly that. Then I rebuilt it so any agent, lender or local business can customize it to their own brand.
What the skill does, start to finish
Here's the full run, in order.
Finds your video. The easiest way is to drag the file into YouTube yourself and tell Claude "I started the upload." It finds the draft in YouTube Studio and works from there.
Reads the transcript and classifies the video. Interview, class recording, tool walkthrough, market update, neighborhood tour, event recap or short tip. Each one gets a different title shape and thumbnail.
Writes five title options. Different angles, not five versions of one idea, with its recommended pick labeled first.
Writes the description. Front-loaded, because only about the first 110 characters show before "Show more." It includes chapters on longer videos, your call to action and your contact block.
Writes your tags and hashtags. Three hashtags for the top of the description and 15 to 22 phrase tags, counted against YouTube's 500-character limit.
Builds a branded thumbnail. 1280x720, in your colors and fonts, using a real frame of you from the video when there's a good one.
Fills in YouTube Studio. Title, description, tags, thumbnail, language, recording location, recording date, category, playlists and audience settings.
Asks before it publishes. It shows you a summary and waits for a clear yes in the chat. Anything less and the video stays Unlisted.
There's an optional ninth step too. If you have a blog, it offers to turn the video into a written post with the video embedded, which is how a video starts getting found by Google and AI search tools, not just YouTube.
The three-hook rule
This is my favorite part of the skill. The title, the thumbnail and the first line of the description each carry a different angle from the video. Three reasons to click instead of one reason said three times.
Claude pulls the three or four most surprising specifics out of your transcript and spreads them out. For an interview with a top-producing agent, it might look like this:
Title: 62 homes a year without buying a single lead
Thumbnail: THE 9PM RULE
Description opener: she calls every past client on their closing anniversary
It also never lets the thumbnail repeat the title, and it rotates thumbnail templates so your channel page doesn't look like the same video posted 20 times.
The one-time setup: your Channel Profile
The first time you run it, the skill interviews you once. After that, every video comes out sounding and looking like you without answering anything again.
It does its homework first
It asks for your YouTube channel link and your website, reads your site, and (with browser access) looks at your last 10 video titles, your playlists and your upload defaults. Then it pre-fills as much as it can and lets you correct it. Confirming a draft is faster than answering from scratch.
Round 1: your business and your viewer
Your name, role, brokerage and the areas you serve
What you are not. A lender is not an agent. A title rep is not a broker. This keeps a title or bio from overstating what you do.
Who should be watching, described by situation: first-time buyers in your city, downsizing sellers, out-of-state relocations, investors
What the channel is for: listing appointments, buyer leads, recruiting, referrals or being the known local expert
The cities, neighborhoods or counties you want attached to your name
Your voice, from two or three things you actually wrote
Your call to action and the exact link for it
Your bio and contact block, plus anything your brokerage requires on every description
Round 2: your look and your settings
Brand colors and fonts, or "pull them from my website"
Where your real logo file lives
Two or three good photos of you for thumbnails when the video has no usable frame
Your always-on hashtag and brand tags
Default recording location, category, language and playlists
Whether it should always ask before publishing (it recommends yes)
The whole interview takes about five minutes. If you just want to get one video out today, it can skip most of it and ask only four questions.
Tip: if you already built a voice profile with my Write Like Me prompt, paste it in when it asks about your voice. Your descriptions will sound like you from the first video.
How to install it
There are two ways to use the file.
As a prompt
Attach the .md file to any Claude chat and say "use this for my YouTube upload." It works right away. The catch is that Claude won't remember it next time, so you'll attach it again for every video.
As a skill (recommended)
Install it once and it's there every time, with your Channel Profile saved. Attach the file to a chat and say "install this as a skill."
In Claude Cowork: it proposes the skill and you click Save.
In a regular Claude chat: Claude packages it as a zip and walks you through Customize, then Skills, then Create skill, then Upload a skill. Code execution needs to be turned on under Settings, then Capabilities.
Where it works best
It works best in the Claude desktop app with Claude Cowork and the Claude in Chrome extension, because that's how Claude fills in YouTube Studio directly in your browser.
In a regular Claude chat without browser access, it still writes everything and builds the thumbnail. It just hands you a paste-ready pack instead: the title, the description in one copy block, comma-separated tags with the character count, chapters, the thumbnail file and a short settings checklist. Pasting it in takes about three minutes.
One thing to know: you need to be at your computer while it runs. It works in your real browser, so it doesn't run on a schedule or while you're away.
The guardrails built into it
A YouTube description goes out under your name and your license, so the skill has rules it won't break.
It never publishes without a yes. Every video, every time. If YouTube shows a "still checking your content" warning, it stops and tells you instead of clicking through.
It never draws your logo. It uses your actual logo file or leaves the logo off. No made-up brokerage marks, no traced franchise logos, no Equal Housing logo it drew itself.
It never fakes a photo. No AI-generated pictures of you, a guest, a property or a neighborhood.
It follows Fair Housing. It describes the property and the area, not the people. It avoids words like "family-friendly," "safe" and "perfect for," and won't rate schools or comment on crime. If you said something like that on camera, it flags it once and leaves it out of the title, thumbnail and tags.
It doesn't repeat unverified claims. If you mentioned a statute, a deadline or a rate live, it won't put it in the description unless it can verify it.
It asks about client details. If a client's name, address or sale price comes up on camera, it asks whether you have permission before it goes in writing.
It leaves no placeholders. It asks for everything up front, or leaves that line out. You won't find "[insert link here]" in a live description.
Lenders: it adds your NMLS ID and required disclosures, and it won't put rates or payments in a title or thumbnail unless your compliance team approved the wording. If you're not sure what your state or brokerage requires on a video, check with your managing broker or compliance team, and the skill saves the answer.
Video ideas that work for agents
If you're not sure what to film first, these are the kinds of videos the skill handles well:
Neighborhood tours in the areas you want to own
"Cost of living in [city]" for out-of-state relocations
Monthly market updates from data you download out of the MLS
Buyer and seller explainers: what happens at closing, what an appraisal gap is, how earnest money works
Class or webinar recordings you've already taught
Interviews with a lender, inspector or stager
Already recording long videos? Pair this with my Long Video to Short Clips skill. The full video goes on YouTube, and the short clips go everywhere else. If your videos are single-shot talking heads, the talking-head video editor skill trims and captions them before you upload.
As an Account Executive with Chicago Title of Colorado, I teach agents across Denver Metro how to use tools like this in their own business. YouTube is one of the few places where a video you film this month can still bring you a seller two years from now, and the upload shouldn't be the reason you don't post.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need Claude Cowork to use the YouTube Upload Assistant?
No. In a regular Claude chat it writes the titles, description, tags, chapters and thumbnail, and gives you a paste-ready pack. Claude Cowork with the Claude in Chrome extension lets it fill in YouTube Studio for you as well.
Will the skill publish my video without asking?
No. It shows you a summary and waits for a clear yes in the chat before it sets a video to Public. If you don't say yes, it saves the video as Unlisted and tells you what's still open.
Can I customize it for my own brand?
Yes, that's what the Channel Profile is for. You set your colors, fonts, logo file, photos, voice, call to action, contact block and default Studio settings once, and every video after that follows them.
Does it work if I'm not a real estate agent?
Yes. It's written with real estate examples, but lenders, title reps, inspectors and any local business with a YouTube channel can use it. You just describe your own business and viewer during setup.
How long should a YouTube title be?
YouTube allows 100 characters, but the skill aims for 55 to 70 because mobile search cuts off longer titles. It also leads with what the viewer will learn and uses the words people actually search with.
Grab the skill and get your drafts published
If you have videos sitting in YouTube Studio as drafts right now, start there. Run the skill on the one you're most proud of.
YouTube Upload Assistant: Click here to download the .md file
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Jerad Larkin
The Mile High Title Guy
Chicago Title of Colorado
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