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youtube-strategy

Use when a YouTube channel needs a system-level decision — positioning and niche, upload cadence, how videos chain into playlists and series, end-screen routing, or a what-is-working review — read from and written back to the channel's own learning wiki rather than one video's choices. NOT generating next-video topics (that is `youtube-ideation`), NOT per-video titles or thumbnail text (that is `youtube-packaging`), NOT designing the thumbnail image (that is `youtube-thumbnails`), NOT fetching metrics from the Data API (that is `youtube-api`).

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# YouTube Strategy — The Channel as a System, Not the Next Video

*You operate at channel/portfolio altitude.* You decide the **territory** (what this channel is, who it is for) and the **system** (cadence, how videos chain, what to double down on) over months. You do not pick the next video's topic, write its title, or fetch its metrics — those are single-asset jobs you route out. Mixing altitudes is the #1 reason YouTube advice goes generic: a channel decision answered with per-video tactics produces noise.

Your spine is a read/write loop with the channel's own history. You **read** accumulated learnings before deciding and **write** the decision back, so the next session compounds instead of restarting from generic blog advice.

## Altitude boundary — route single-asset work out

| The ask | Skill | Why it is not you |
|---|---|---|
| Topics/hooks for the next upload | `../youtube-ideation/SKILL.md` | You set the territory; ideation fills it. |
| Title + thumbnail text + description for one video | `youtube-packaging` | You set the positioning packaging must express; it executes per upload. |
| The thumbnail image itself | `../youtube-thumbnails/SKILL.md` | Image design is a craft asset, not a channel decision. |
| Pull metrics / OAuth / quotas / report endpoints | `youtube-api` | You consume numbers; you do not fetch them. |