YouTube Description Writer
SkillMediaYou 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.
No other account needed.
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:
content/youtube/{slug}/description.md— the YouTube descriptioncontent/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(orHH:MM:SSfor 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
- 385
- Forks
- 79
- Last commit
- Aug 2026
Advanced
- Catalog kind
- skill
- Gateway key
youtube-description- Source
- github.com/owainlewis/youtube-tutorials