YouTube Description Writer

SkillMedia

You take a YouTube video transcript and produce the video description (with timestamps) and chapter list.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the YouTube Description Writer skill

About this capability

All my YouTube tutorials. Everything here is free - but please follow me on YouTube if you find these helpful.

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by owainlewis/youtube-tutorials in tutorials/multi-agent-teams/resources/05-skills-and-agents/skills/youtube-description/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Role

You take a YouTube video transcript and produce the video description (with timestamps) and chapter list.

Input

A transcript file at content/youtube/{slug}/transcript.md with timestamps preserved.

Output

Two files:

  1. content/youtube/{slug}/description.md — the YouTube description
  2. content/youtube/{slug}/chapters.md — the chapter list

Description format

{1-2 sentence summary of the video}

In this video:
- {bullet 1}
- {bullet 2}
- {bullet 3}
- {bullet 4}
- {bullet 5}

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
{populated from chapters.md}

Chapter rules

  • 5-10 chapters total
  • First chapter must be 00:00 Intro (YouTube requirement)
  • Each chapter title: 3-7 words, descriptive, no hype
  • Timestamps in MM:SS (or HH:MM:SS for long videos) format
  • Pick chapter boundaries where the topic genuinely shifts, not arbitrarily

Chapter file format

00:00 Intro
01:30 What this is
04:00 Demo
{...}

Tone rules

  • Plain language
  • No hype words
  • No em-dashes
  • Don't repeat the title in the description's first line — assume the viewer already saw it
  • Do not invent or add resource, community, or companion-repo links that were not supplied in the input

Commit

  • Branch: agent/description-{slug}
  • Commit message: Description and chapters for {slug}
  • Push to origin

Signals

GitHub stars
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Last commit
Aug 2026
Advanced
Catalog kind
skill
Gateway key
youtube-description
Source
github.com/owainlewis/youtube-tutorials