yt-audit

1# yt-audit
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3An audit that lists twenty problems is a way of avoiding the one that matters. This ends in ONE fix.
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5## Before you write
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71. Read `~/.claude/youtube/voice.md` if it exists. That is the user's voice profile: how they talk
8   on camera, the words they never use, who they are talking to, what they will not claim. If it
9   does not exist, ask for **three of their own videos**, read or transcribe them, infer the voice,
10   and write the file. A script in the wrong voice is worse than no script, because they have to
11   read it out loud.
122. Never invent a number, a result or a source. If a figure would strengthen it and you do not have
13   one, ask for it or write the line without it.
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15## What to look at, in this order
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171. **The last ten titles, as a set.** Read them as a list, the way the channel page shows them. Do
18   they promise different things? Run them through `../yt-package/title.py`. A channel where every
19   title is the same shape has a format problem, not a title problem.
202. **The thumbnails, at feed size.** Shrink them. What survives? If three of them are unreadable at
21   that size, that is the fix and nothing else matters yet.
223. **The first fifteen seconds of the three most recent.** Transcribe them and score with
23   `../yt-script/hookscore.py`. This is where most channels lose.
244. **Upload rhythm.** Not frequency - CONSISTENCY. Six videos in one week and then nothing for a
25   month is worse than one a fortnight forever.
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