YouTube Description Writer

SkillMedia

Lets your agent turn a YouTube video transcript into a ready-to-post description with timestamps and a 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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Forks
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Last commit
Sep 2026
Advanced
Catalog kind
skill
Gateway key
youtube-description-owainlewis
Source
github.com/owainlewis/youtube-tutorials