Example skill

Skill MrEmanAhmad/yt2skill/examples/example-skill

A hand-written sample showing the shape yt2skill produces. Reach for the real thing when you need to turn a tutorial video or a manual into a skill an agent can follow.From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add MrEmanAhmad/yt2skill --skill example-skill

Assembled from the repository path, not quoted from the project. Check it against their README if it does not work.

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SKILL.md

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example-skill

This file is not generated - it is a small, hand-written illustration of what a yt2skill output looks like, so you know the shape before you run the tool.

A real generated SKILL.md has two parts:

Frontmatter (the --- block above). name is the slug. description is the one line a session sees before it decides to load the skill, so it names the trigger and the task, not just the topic. "Reach for this when you need to X" beats "About X".
The body: what the thing is, then a procedure written as concrete actions the agent takes - real commands, real paths, real values. It never says "the video shows..."; it just gives the instruction, as if the author had learned the method and written it down.

Example procedure

Say the source video demonstrated setting up a nightly database backup. The generated skill would read something like:

Create the backup script at /opt/backups/pg-backup.sh:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail
pg_dump -Fc mydb > "/opt/backups/mydb-$(date +%F).dump"
find /opt/backups -name 'mydb-*.dump' -mtime +14 -delete

Make it executable: chmod +x /opt/backups/pg-backup.sh.
Add the cron entry (runs 02:30 nightly):
```
30 2 * * * /opt/backups/pg-backup.sh
```

Note the exact retention window (14 days) and the exact time (02:30) - those numbers are the product. A generated skill transcribes them precisely from the transcript or a frame, and flags any it could not read rather than guessing.

Bulky detail (full config tables, option lists, edge cases) would go in a sibling reference.md, keeping this file short enough to load and act on.

What ships with it

Read from the repository

Just SKILL.md. No reference files, no scripts.