viral-youtube-shorts
🎯Skillfrom vyralcontent/content-skills
|A Claude Code skill that helps you write, diagnose, and optimize YouTube Shorts by encoding what the Shorts algorithm actually rewards, including VVSA, retention curves, loop design, and the Shorts-to-long-form funnel.
Overview
This skill guides you through writing YouTube Shorts that survive the critical first 3 seconds, hold viewer attention through the retention curve, and convert Shorts Feed scrollers into long-form watchers. It encodes YouTube-specific mechanics like VVSA (Viewed vs Swiped Away), loop-driven rewatches, and the decoupled Shorts algorithm that judges each Short independently of your channel size. The skill covers multiple modes: scripting new Shorts from scratch, diagnosing why an existing Short flopped, planning the Shorts-to-long-form funnel, optimizing monetization through music-split and Creator Pool math, and critiquing drafts against a VVSA checklist and anti-pattern sweep.
Key Features
- VVSA-first hook writing: Builds the opening 3 seconds to clear the 60-70%+ VVSA gate that determines whether a Short gets pushed wider, with no logos, welcome-back intros, or animated openers
- Retention curve diagnosis: Reads the Studio retention graph (blue line vs gray band) to pinpoint exactly where and why a Short loses viewers, including first-3-second cliffs and mid-video payoff stalls
- Loop design for rewatches: Structures the last beat to feed back into the first, pushing percentage-viewed past 100% and earning rewatch weight from the algorithm
- Shorts-to-long-form funnel: Helps write in-video callouts, pinned comments, and end-card pointers that bridge the decoupled Shorts and long-form algorithms
- Monetization pass: Analyzes music licensing choices (licensed track splits vs original audio), Creator Pool math, Engaged Views vs raw Views, and the YPP Shorts pathway
- Anti-pattern sweep: Catches watermarks, wrong aspect ratios, captions outside safe zones, off-topic Shorts tabs, and other quiet penalties before upload
Who is this for?
- YouTube creators who post Shorts regularly and want to understand why some perform and others flop
- Channels building a Shorts-to-long-form viewer funnel to convert short-form reach into long-form subscribers
- Creators focused on Shorts monetization who need to optimize RPM through music choices and Engaged Views
- Content teams scripting Shorts at volume who need a repeatable process grounded in how the Shorts Feed algorithm works
Same repository
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Installation
npx vibeindex add vyralcontent/content-skills --skill viral-youtube-shortsnpx skills add vyralcontent/content-skills --skill viral-youtube-shorts~/.claude/skills/viral-youtube-shorts/SKILL.mdSKILL.md
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