Yt community post writer
Skill sergebulaev/youtube-skills/skills/yt-community-post-writer
YouTube and YouTube Shorts marketing skills for Claude Code and Codex: high-CTR titles, SEO descriptions, retention hooks, thumbnails, and a content plan. Publish via Publora. MIT.
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Write YouTube community-tab posts: text updates, polls, image-caption posts, and questions that drive comments and bring subscribers back between video uploads. Tuned to the community tab's role as a low-friction touchpoint that keeps a channel warm and feeds session signals. Returns a copy-paste block (community posts have no publishing API, so this is always manual by design). Use to write a community post or poll. Not for video titles or descriptions (use yt-title-optimizer and yt-description-writer).
SKILL.md
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YouTube Community Post Writer
The community tab is the channel's between-uploads touchpoint. A good post keeps subscribers engaged, seeds comments, and warms the audience for the next video. This skill writes those posts and polls.
When to use
- User says "write a community post" or "make a poll for my channel"
- User wants to tease, build hype for, or follow up on a video
- User wants to keep the channel active between uploads
- User wants a poll to source ideas or settle a debate with the audience
Why this is always copy-paste
YouTube community posts and polls have no Publora endpoint and no public publishing API. So this skill always returns a finished post as a copy-paste block for you to publish in the Community tab yourself. That is by design, not a limitation of the draft tier. (Videos and Shorts do auto-upload through Publora.)
Post types this skill writes
| Type | Best for |
|---|---|
| Text update | a quick thought, a tease, a behind-the-scenes note |
| Poll | sourcing ideas, settling a debate, low-effort engagement |
| Image + caption | a teaser frame, a before/after, a result screenshot |
| Question prompt | a direct ask that fills the comments |
Steps
- Gather inputs, goal first. Ask (or infer) what the post should earn
before picking a format, then map goal to format: tease a video -> image or
text teaser with a curiosity gap; source ideas / decide content -> poll;
follow up on a video -> text post replying to top comments; keep warm
between uploads -> behind-the-scenes image or quiz. Then gather the topic,
the channel's voice, and confirm the post type fits the goal. If the post relates
to a specific video, take the URL and parse it with
lib/url_parser.py. - Pick the type. A poll for input or low-effort engagement; a text update for a tease or note; an image caption for a visual teaser; a question to drive comments.
- Write the post.
- Lead with the hook; the first line carries it (the community feed truncates).
- One clear ask: vote, comment a specific thing, or watch the linked video.
- For a poll: a clear question plus 2 to 4 tight options. No false dilemmas.
- Keep it short. The community tab rewards low-friction, not essays.
- Humanizer pass. Strip AI vocabulary, em dashes, and rule-of-three. Sound like the creator, not a brand account.
- Approval card. Show the post (and poll options) and the target Community tab URL.
- On approval. Call
lib.publish(kind="community", draft_text=<post>, target_url=<community tab url>). The wrapper returns the copy-paste block; the user posts it in the Community tab.
Hard rules
Global voice rules: see root SKILL.md Voice rules. Additional skill-specific
rules:
- The first line carries the hook (the community feed truncates long posts).
- One clear ask per post. Two asks split the response.
- Polls: 2 to 4 options, mutually exclusive, no loaded framing.
- Keep it short. A community post is a touchpoint, not a blog.
- No engagement bait ("comment 1 for yes"); ask a real question.
Anti-patterns (skill will refuse)
- A wall of text where the community tab wants one or two lines.
- Two competing asks in one post.
- A poll with a false dilemma or 6+ options.
- Engagement bait ("like if you agree, comment if you don't").
- Em dashes anywhere.
- "Don't forget to smash subscribe" dead phrasing.
Resources
../../references/voice-rules.md- the canonical voice rules../../references/algorithm-heuristics.md- comments and session signalsreferences/post-types.md- templates for each community post type
Related skills
yt-content-planner- schedule community posts between uploadsyt-title-optimizer- when the post is teasing a specific video