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How to plan a YouTube video with an agent

Most weak videos are decided before the camera turns on. This works through researching the search, writing the title and thumbnail as one promise, scripting the hook, outlining for retention, and repurposing the result.

An agent cannot make your video good on camera. It can make sure you do not spend a day recording the wrong one. The decisions that sink most videos, the topic, the title, the first lines, are made before recording, and they are exactly the decisions an agent can research and write down for you to argue with.

This works one plan through. Say your channel teaches small agencies to run paid ads, and the idea is “how to report ad results to clients”.

Research the search first

Before any writing, have the agent search YouTube for the topic and its closest phrasings, and record the videos that rank: title, channel, date, URL, and what each one covers.

Then the important part: read the comments. Comments are where viewers say what the video did not answer. On our example, the ranking videos show dashboard templates. The comments keep asking the same thing: “what do I say when the numbers are bad?”

That is the gap. Nobody made the video about the uncomfortable report. That is your video.

Rule for the agent: every claim about a competing video carries its URL. No invented view counts. If it cannot load the page, it says so.

Write the title and thumbnail as one promise

A viewer reads the title and the thumbnail together, in a glance. They should not say the same thing twice.

  • The title says what the viewer gets. “How to report bad ad results to a client” is plain and specific.
  • The thumbnail shows why it matters. One image, a few words at most, and not the title again. A tense client email, a red number, a face reacting to it.

Have the agent write three title options and one thumbnail brief. Then check each title against the outline: a title that promises something the video never delivers gets the click and loses the viewer, and the platform notices.

Script the hook word for word

The hook is the first lines of the video, and it is the only part worth writing word for word before recording. Its job is to prove the click was right.

A weak opening: “Hey everyone, welcome back to the channel. Today we are talking about reporting.” A viewer who clicked for bad news handling leaves.

A stronger opening: “Your client’s cost per lead doubled this month and the report is due Friday. Here is exactly what to send.” It restates the promise and starts paying it off.

Ask the agent for the hook, then read it out loud. If it sounds like an intro, cut until it does not.

Outline for retention

An outline for a video is not an outline for an article. Each section has to earn the next one. For every section, have the agent write two things: the question it answers, and the reason a viewer keeps watching to the next section.

For the example:

  1. The rule: report the bad number first. The reason to keep watching: why hiding it costs the client.
  2. The script: the exact email. Keep watching for what to do when they push back.
  3. The pushback: three objections and the answers. Keep watching for the template.
  4. The template: the report layout, and where to get it.

If a section has no reason to keep watching, it is either the end of the video or something to cut.

Put a person in front of the camera, not the agent

The plan is a draft. A person approves it before anyone records. That is the gate in the youtube-video-plan template, and it is there because the agent cannot see what you are good at on camera. The youtube-video-planner skill produces the same plan on request.

Then repurpose the recording

Once the video is live, the transcript is raw material for a week of work: chapters for the video page, short clips for the feeds, an article for search, and posts that point back. The youtube-repurpose template does that with one strict rule: every quote is verbatim from the transcript and carries its timestamp. The video-repurposer skill does a single pass.

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