The AI Launchpad Youtuber turns your Claude Code into a complete YouTube content strategist. Your content strategist will help you with:

1. Analyzing your YouTube channel performance
2. Crafting a YouTube channel strategy
3. Researching video topics
   • Existing content analysis
   • Competitor analysis
   • Content gap analysis
   • Trend analysis
4. Generating video titles
5. Creating video thumbnails
6. Crafting video hooks
7. Planning your next video

While following strict design requirements and best practices for generating high-converting YouTube content.

The AI Launchpad Youtuber is completely powered by Claude Code plugins.

This project is both a starting point and demonstration of how to use the YT Content Strategist plugin from the AI Launchpad Marketplace.

To learn more about Claude Clode plugins, see the official documentation

If you don't have Claude Code installed yet, see the official guide.

You will also need the following dependencies:

1. Install uv

2. Get a YOUTUBE_API_KEY

3. Get a GEMINI_API_KEY

4. Install Thumbkit as a uv tool:

uv tool install git+https://github.com/kenneth-liao/thumbkit.git

Verify the installation by running the command thumbkit in any terminal. You should see the help menu.

1. Clone this repository.

git clone https://github.com/kenneth-liao/ai-launchpad-youtuber.git

2. Change to the project directory.

cd ai-launchpad-youtuber

3. Copy .env.example to .env and fill in the required variables.

4. Add the AI Launchpad Marketplace.

Start Claude Code and run the following command:

/plugin marketplace add https://github.com/kenneth-liao/ai-launchpad-marketplace.git

5. Install the YT Content Strategist plugin:

/plugin install yt-content-strategist@ai-launchpad-marketplace

Or you can do this interactively by running /plugin.

6. Restart Claude Code for the plugin to take effect.

You can verify the plugin interactively by running /plugin and checking that yt-content-strategist is installed. You can also explore the skills, agents, and MCP servers available with the plugin.

You can also run /context to see the new MCP tools available through the plugin and their context window usage.

You can now start using the content strategist. Here are some example prompts to try:

1. Research video topics

Research a video topic about turning Claude Code into a personal assistant.

2. Generate a video title

Generate a title for a video about turning Claude Code into a personal assistant.

3. Create a video thumbnail

Create a thumbnail for my next video titled "The AI Workflow Nobody Is Talking About"

4. Craft a video hook

Craft a hook for a video about turning Claude Code into a personal assistant.

5. Generate a complete video plan (includes research, title, thumbnail, hook, and outline)

   a. Plan a video about turning Claude Code into my personal assistant.

   b. Help me plan my next youtube video about turning Claude Code into a Youtube content strategist using Claude Plugins. I want to give a brief intro to Claude plugins and then give a step by step walkthrough about how the plugin works to give viewers an idea of how they can build their own to solve complex, long-running problems.