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Research

owainlewis/research

Research video ideas for a topic and add them to the Airtable content pipeline.

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Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository
npx skills add https://github.com/owainlewis/youtube-tutorials --skill research

The instruction itself

4 sections, as written by the author

Research Skill

Generate video ideas for a given topic and push them into Airtable.

Airtable Configuration

Update these with your own base and table IDs:

  • Base: [Your Base Name] ([your-base-id])
  • Table: [Your Table Name] ([your-table-id])

Process

  • Research the given topic using web search to understand the current landscape
  • Identify gaps — what questions are unanswered, what demos are missing
  • Generate 10 video ideas with titles optimized for YouTube (6-8 words, under 50 characters)
  • Assign each idea to the most relevant content category
  • Use the Airtable MCP to create records in the table
  • Set Status to "Idea" for all new records
  • Use typecast: true when creating records so select values are matched by name
  • Return a summary table of what was added

Title Guidelines

  • 6-8 words, under 50 characters
  • Sentence case (capitalize first word and proper nouns only)
  • Simple words a child could read aloud
  • One subject per title
  • "How I" is stronger than "How to"
  • Parenthetical kickers add a second hook: (+ my setup), (honest take), (from scratch)

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take owainlewis/research from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.