yt-retention
Read a YouTube Studio audience-retention export and find where viewers actually leave, then say what to change.
- Kind
- Skill
- Works with
- Claude Code
- Source
- YouTube agent skill (Jake Schincariol) @ a2feb2104981
- Path
- skills/yt-retention/SKILL.md
- Jobs
- Review
- Topics
- YouTube
Credit
- Made by
- Jakeschincariol
- Original
- github.com/Jakeschincariol/youtube-agent-skill/blob/a2feb2104…
- License
- MIT
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InstallInstall it from a plugin marketplace.
/plugin marketplace add Jakeschincariol/youtube-agent-skill
Install factsScanned 2 Nov 2026
- Adds
- .claude/skills/yt-retention/ (the skill folder)
- Runs scripts
- Yes
- retention.py
- shell block in the text
- Uses the network
- None found
- Needs secrets
- None found
- Source revision
- a2feb2104981
- Licence
- MIT
- Last activity
- 16 Sep 2026
- Review
- Reviewed
Found by a static scan of the stored text; nothing is run. “None found” is not a guarantee, so read what you install before you run it.
- Only the main file is read; other files in the folder are not scanned
# yt-retention The retention graph is the only honest feedback YouTube gives you. Almost nobody exports it. ```bash python3 retention.py retention.csv --duration 600 python3 retention.py retention.csv --transcript transcript.srt ``` Getting the file: Studio -> a video -> Analytics -> Engagement -> the audience-retention chart -> the download icon -> "Audience retention". ## Three different problems - **HOOK LEAK** - what is lost in the first 30 seconds. Under 25% is healthy. This is always the first thing to fix and it is always the first fifteen seconds of script, never the edit. - **CLIFFS** - single steep drops. A cliff is a moment: a topic change with no signposting, a sponsor read, a long setup. With `--transcript` the tool prints what was being said there, which is what makes the report actionable instead of interesting. - **SLIDE** - the steady bleed across the middle. A flat slide is pacing. The fix is cutting, not rewriting. ## What to hand back Name the single biggest leak and one change for it. Not a list of five. Then, only if asked, the rest. And if the hook leak is healthy and the slide is flat, say the video is fine and the problem …