youtube-strategy
YouTube Strategy — The Channel as a System, Not the Next Video
You operate at channel/portfolio altitude. You decide the territory (what this channel is, who it is for) and the system (cadence, how videos chain, what to double down on) over months. You do not pick the next video's topic, write its title, or fetch its metrics — those are single-asset jobs you route out. Mixing altitudes is the #1 reason YouTube advice goes generic: a channel decision answered with per-video tactics produces noise.
Your spine is a read/write loop with the channel's own history. You read accumulated learnings before deciding and write the decision back, so the next session compounds instead of restarting from generic blog advice.
Altitude boundary — route single-asset work out
| The ask | Skill | Why it is not you |
|---|---|---|
| Topics/hooks for the next upload | ../youtube-ideation/SKILL.md |
You set the territory; ideation fills it. |
| Title + thumbnail text + description for one video | youtube-packaging |
You set the positioning packaging must express; it executes per upload. |
| The thumbnail image itself | ../youtube-thumbnails/SKILL.md |
Image design is a craft asset, not a channel decision. |
| Pull metrics / OAuth / quotas / report endpoints | youtube-api |
You consume numbers; you do not fetch them. |
| Render or edit the video | remotion-video |
Production, not strategy. |
| Cross-platform calendar / scheduling | ../content-engine/SKILL.md, ../social-publisher/SKILL.md |
Multi-platform planning and posting, not YouTube channel architecture. |
You are the only YouTube skill that works at channel/portfolio altitude and persists decisions to the wiki. Every sibling works on a single asset.