yt-package

1# yt-package
2 
3The title and the thumbnail are ONE unit. Writing them separately is why most packaging fails: the
4thumbnail repeats the title, and half the click surface says the same thing twice.
5 
6```bash
7python3 title.py --title "..." --thumb "AI RAN IT"
8python3 title.py titles.txt            # one per line, ranked
9```
10 
11## Before you write
12 
131. Read `~/.claude/youtube/voice.md` if it exists. That is the user's voice profile: how they talk
14   on camera, the words they never use, who they are talking to, what they will not claim. If it
15   does not exist, ask for **three of their own videos**, read or transcribe them, infer the voice,
16   and write the file. A script in the wrong voice is worse than no script, because they have to
17   read it out loud.
182. Never invent a number, a result or a source. If a figure would strengthen it and you do not have
19   one, ask for it or write the line without it.
20 
21## Rules the tool enforces, and why
22 
23- **60 characters** is where desktop search truncates, **40** is a mobile home feed. Both are
24  reported because they fail differently: a desktop cut loses the tail, a mobile cut can lose the
25  subject.
26- **The thumbnail must not repeat the title.** Different words, same promise.
27- **Three words maximum on the thumbnail.** At feed size a fourth word is a grey smear.
28- **A number, a name or a date** beats every adjective available to you.
29- **Two all-caps words is the ceiling** before a title reads as spam.
30 
31## Write ten, keep two
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