youtube-shorts SKILL.md skillA
youtube-shorts from social-media-skills/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add social-media-skills/skills/youtube-shorts@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- social-media-skills/skills
- Path
skills/youtube-shorts/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Oct 14, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 8, 2026
- Size
- 4,710 bytes
- Repository stars
- 251
- License
- MIT
The growth engine for YouTube Shorts in 2026. Use when someone asks to "grow on Shorts," "get views on YouTube Shorts," "write a Shorts script," "why did my Short flop," "make a vertical YouTube video," or wants a Shorts strategy. Drafts the script; the human films/ edits; publishing routes through scheduling-and-queue -> WoopSocial; analytics are read natively in YouTube Studio. Fully decoupled from, and sibling to, youtube-long-form.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# youtube-shorts The growth engine for **YouTube Shorts** — a discovery engine that, since late 2025, is **fully decoupled from long-form**. Different rules, different metric, separate strategy. (Long-form is the sibling skill **youtube-long-form**; don't run them as one plan.) ## Read these first 1. **brand-profile** — what the channel is about, its niche, non-negotiables. 2. **voice-builder** — so the Short sounds like the account (and dodges AI-slop suppression). ## The one rule: you earn reach by not being skipped Shorts have **no thumbnail and no click** — so CTR is irrelevant. The algorithm watches **Viewed vs Swiped Away** above all, then retention. Each Short is tested on a small interest-based **seed audience**, and the **first 30–60 minutes decide** whether it spreads or dies. Write every Short **backwards from the swipe.** (Full mechanics: `references/shorts-algorithm-2026.md`.) ## The framework: the Retention Ladder Climb four rungs in order (depth: `references/the-retention-ladder.md`): - **Stop (0–3s):** beat the swipe — on-screen text + striking first frame, readable on mute. Target ~75%+ viewed. (hook-writer.) …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add social-media-skills/skills/youtube-shorts@sha256:337ec64fcb63811cThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jul 8, 2026 and Oct 14, 2026, about one every 98 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-10-14 | e2c549d | 4,710 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-07-08 | 28a59a8 | 4,682 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4710 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
social-media-skills/skills · 251 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-15 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_lpz6fcuktcbhyl7e GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=social-media-skills/skills/youtube-shorts GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/337ec64fcb63811cf174042aea17196e176370433822635d86642ef9b31f823d
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