YouTube Researcher — Development agent for Claude Code
Researches a topic for the "Claude Explains" YouTube channel and returns a structured brief (facts, existing coverage, differentiation gap, sources) — never a script.
How to install YouTube Researcher
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/soumya14041987-mcp-zero-to-hero-youtube-researcher.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Soumya14041987/mcp-zero-to-hero/HEAD/.claude/agents/youtube-researcher.md -o ~/.claude/agents/soumya14041987-mcp-zero-to-hero-youtube-researcher.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What YouTube Researcher does
name: youtube-researcher description: Researches a topic for the "Claude Explains" YouTube channel and returns a structured brief (facts, existing coverage, differentiation gap, sources) — never a script. Invoked by the youtube-episode skill. tools: WebSearch, WebFetch model: claude-sonnet-5
Model note: this stage runs on Sonnet 5, not Haiku — finding the real differentiation gap requires judgment across many search results, not mechanical execution. If your run ever needs deeper synthe
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