youtube-plan-new-video

# YouTube Video Planning

## Overview

This skill generates complete video plans by orchestrating specialized skills to create optimized titles, thumbnails, and hooks. It takes research as input and produces a production-ready plan with all creative elements needed to maximize video performance.

**Core Principle**: Leverage specialized skills to ensure proven patterns for CTR (title/thumbnail) and retention (hook). Never generate these elements manually.

## When to Use

Use this skill when:
- Research has been completed and you need to generate title/thumbnail/hook concepts
- The user asks to plan a new video
- You need to create production-ready creative elements
- You want to generate multiple options for the user to choose from

## Prerequisites

**MANDATORY**: Research for the new video must be completed first. Either:
1. Research file exists at `./youtube/episode/[episode_number]_[topic_short_name]/`, OR
2. Invoke `youtube-research-video-topic` skill to conduct research first

## Planning Workflow

Execute all steps below to complete the video plan. Add these as ToDos so that you can systematically track your progress.

### Step 0: Load Research

Read the research file for this episode:
- Location: `./youtube/episode/[episode_number]_[topic_short_name]/research.md`

If research doesn't exist, invoke `youtube-research-video-topic` skill first.

The video plan **MUST** incorporate research findings at each step.

### Step 1: Create a new plan file at: `./youtube/episode/[episode_number]_[topic_short_name]/plan.md`

If a plan file already exists, read it to understand what has been done so far and continue from there.

You will update this document as you progress through the planning steps.

The plan file **MUST** include the following sections (to be populated in later steps):

```markdown
# [Episode_Number] (if applicable): [Topic] - Video Plan

## Research Summary
[Summary of research insights]

## Titles
[Title 1]
[Title 2]
[Title 3]

Each title should incl