yt-script

1# yt-script
2 
3One idea into a script somebody finishes.
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5Two tools live in this folder and both actually run. Use them. Do not eyeball the hook.
6 
7```bash
8python3 hookscore.py hooks.txt              # rank your hook options
9python3 hookscore.py --hook "one line"      # score a single one
10```
11 
12## Before you write
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141. Read `~/.claude/youtube/voice.md` if it exists. That is the user's voice profile: how they talk
15   on camera, the words they never use, who they are talking to, what they will not claim. If it
16   does not exist, ask for **three of their own videos**, read or transcribe them, infer the voice,
17   and write the file. A script in the wrong voice is worse than no script, because they have to
18   read it out loud.
192. Never invent a number, a result or a source. If a figure would strengthen it and you do not have
20   one, ask for it or write the line without it.
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22## The shape
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24**The first 15 seconds is the whole job.** It does three things or the video leaks: confirm the
25click the title promised, open a question the viewer cannot close, and prove the payoff exists.
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271. **Hook.** Write FIVE against [the 21 formulas](hooks.json), run them through `hookscore.py`,
28   keep the top two, and show the user both with their scores. Never hand over one hook.
292. **The turn** (0:15-0:45). Say what the video is going to do, in one sentence, and start doing it.
30   No channel intro, no "before we get started", no subscribe pitch. Those are the single most
31   common cause of the 0:30 cliff.
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