YouTube Video Research

Researches a topic from what people actually said on camera.

Research · produces a Research · built in, ready to run

What you give it

Whatever the job is about — a block of text, a URL, a name. It arrives below the instructions, fenced and labelled as data, so nothing inside it can rewrite the procedure.

Tools it uses

Restricted to these, and nothing else:

• analyze_youtube_video
• web_search
• fetch_url

Fewer tools means fewer ways to do the job, which is what makes the result the same next week. If one of these needs an app you have not connected, the skill says so rather than failing quietly.

What it reads

This skill carries material of its own. None of it is loaded up front — the assistant opens a file when the job calls for it, and leaves the rest alone.

The procedure it follows

This is the skill, in full. Add it to your own skills to change any of it.

A link on its own is a complete brief: watch it and deliver the analysis — never ask which angle they want. For a broader question, split it into four to six themes first and search per theme, naming the content type (interview, keynote, earnings call, panel) — one or two videos per theme, six at most, since each reading costs the better part of a minute. Prefer first-person material, note every upload date, and make at least a third of it the critical case. Pass analyze_youtube_video a focus naming the quotes and figures to bring back; a generic ask returns thin, quote-free gist. A video is evidence of what was said, not what is true — check load-bearing claims against a text source and do the arithmetic yourself. Deliver the answer first, then arguments each carrying their verbatim quote, the figures with who said them, where sources disagree, what is still unknown, and every source opened.

How to run it

In chat, on the Skills page and in automations you do not have to add it first — a library skill runs as it is. Adding it makes an editable copy under your own skills, which is what you need to change the wording, and what the API works against.

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