🎬 YouTube-Video-to-Content Engine

Step 1 — /onboard (once)

You:  /onboard

Claude walks you through three things:

1. Connect your channel

Claude: What's your YouTube channel handle or URL?
You:    @SKFAI
Claude: Connected to @SKFAI. I can now read your upload history
        and pull your latest video automatically.

This writes your channel into the performance script and resolves your canonical channel ID, so later skills can find your real videos.

2. Capture your Voice DNA

Claude asks ~3 questions and folds the answers into every content prompt:

Claude: In one or two sentences, how would you describe your voice?
You:    Warm and confident, analogy-first (poker, thermostats, car
        insurance), I always back claims with real numbers, and I close
        with a soft "come build with us in the Claude Club."
Claude: Who's your audience and what do you teach them?
You:    Non-coders learning to build and automate with Claude — right now,
        stock-trading automation.

From now on, your blog / Twitter / LinkedIn output sounds like you, not like a template.

3. Optional keys

Apify (reliable transcripts), Supabase (auto-save drafts), Twitter (auto-post). All skippable — say "skip" and add them later.

At the end, onboarding prints your workflow map and a suggested first command. You only do this once per channel.

Step 2 — /ideation — what should I make?

You:  /ideation Claude Code for stock trading

You get 7–10 positioned ideas, each mapped to a core desire, scored for "shock," and checked against competitive gaps. The Tier 1 picks look like:

## I Let Claude Code Copy Every Trade a Senator Makes

- Angle:           Turn public Capitol Trades disclosures into an automated
                   paper-trading bot — nobody has shown the full build.
- Core Desire:     Money  →  Proxy: "trade like someone with inside access,
                   legally, on autopilot"
- Shock Score:     86/100
- Format:          Case Study (build + result reveal)
- Competitive Gap: Plenty of "politicians beat the market" explainers,
                   zero end-to-end "here's the bot" tutorials.
- Why Now:         Capitol Trades API is free + congressional trading is
                   trending after the latest disclosure cycle.

Pick one and carry it into the next steps.

Step 3 — /yt-titles — title it like your hits

You:  /yt-titles a video where I build a bot that copies senator stock trades

This is the skill that makes the system yours: it pulls your actual top performers (via channel_performance.py), finds the title patterns your audience already rewards, then generates titles in that pattern.

## Your Top Performers (last 3 months)
Your "I Let Claude…" + concrete-outcome format outperforms your how-to titles
~3x on views/day. Numbers and a clear result are doing the work.

## Title Options

### Tier 1 — High Confidence
1. I Built a Bot That Copies Senator Stock Trades (Claude Code)
   Based on your "I Built…" pattern — proven, names the tool, concrete.
2. Claude Code vs. Congress: I Copied Their Trades for 30 Days
   Your contrarian + timeframe pattern; "vs." adds tension.

### Tier 3 — Swing for the Fences
8. I Gave Claude My Brokerage Account. Here's What Happened.
   Pattern-break curiosity gap — higher risk, higher ceiling.

## Thumbnail Text Options
For "I Built a Bot That Copies Senator Stock Trades":
1. "LEGAL?"      — tension against the title's premise
2. "+18% / MO"   — concrete proof the title withholds

Step 4 — /hooks — nail the first 15 seconds

You:  /hooks I Built a Bot That Copies Senator Stock Trades with Claude Code

Uses the Kallaway desire-based framework to produce three fully-aligned hooks (visual + spoken + on-screen text), each scored against the Four Commandments:

### Hook 1 — Case Study + "About Me"
Spoken:       "I gave Claude Code a list of every stock a senator bought
              last quarter — and let it trade them for me."
Visual:       Screen recording: Capitol Trades feed → Claude Code running →
              Alpaca paper account ticking up
Text overlay: "COPYING CONGRESS"
Power Words:  Subject ✓ Action ✓ Objective ✓ Contrast ✓ Time ✓ (5/6)
Commandments: Alignment ✓ Speed ✓ Clarity ✓ Curiosity ✓ (4/4)

Step 5 — /outlines — a recording-ready script

You:  /outlines the senator-copy-trading bot video, ~14 minutes

A full outline in recording format: hook, structured body sections with talking points, visual-aid callouts, demo beats, source citations, per-section time budgets, and a production-notes block (competitive landscape, title ideas, thumbnail moments, honest limitations). You sit down and film straight from it.

## Hook (~60s)            [the aligned hook from Step 4]
## Section 1 — The Setup (~2.5 min)
   Core idea:  Congressional trades are public — and weirdly good.
   Talking points: • Capitol Trades is free  • the disclosure lag
   Visual aid: → screen recording of the Capitol Trades feed
   Source:     capitoltrades.com
## Section 2 — Wiring Claude Code to Alpaca (~5 min)  [demo-heavy]
...
## Production Notes  →  3 competitor titles, 3 thumbnail moments, limitations

Step 6 — /content-cascade — the long-tail content

You:  /content-cascade latest

Claude auto-detects your latest upload, fetches the transcript, classifies the video (tutorial vs. discussion), and generates — in your voice:

• A 1,500–2,500 word blog post with SEO metadata (title, description, slug, keywords, tags, cover image)
• A Twitter/X thread built around the single best angle
• A LinkedIn post mirroring the video's premise
• Because this one is a tutorial, it also generates a LinkedIn lead-magnet post + a Skool-ready HTML guide

Each piece is shown to you for review before saving. With keys configured it can auto-save drafts to Supabase and auto-post the thread; without them, everything saves as local markdown under content/.

Step 7 — /short-form — slice the clips

You:  /short-form latest

Scans the transcript for the 3–5 most clip-worthy moments (self-contained insight, shock value, emotional peak, demo reveal) and for each gives timestamps, a scroll-stopping hook, a ready-to-paste caption, and hashtags — ranked by best for reach / conversions / engagement.

### Clip 1: "Is this legal?" — Best for reach
Timestamps:   02:14 → 03:01   (~47s)
Hook:         Text "IS THIS LEGAL?"  |  Spoken "Yes, copying a senator's
              stock trades is completely legal — here's the catch."
Caption:      Congress has to disclose their trades. So I had Claude trade
              them for me 👀  Full build on the channel.
Hashtags:     #claudecode #ai #stocktrading #investing #fintech