Bundle · v1.0

The Performer Bundle

The Performer Bundle is the avatar-specific layer for recorded-media creators: YouTubers, podcasters, livestreamers and short-form video creators. Presence is the product. Skills protect the recording cadence, sharpen the discoverability layer and compress the multi-platform repurposing loop. YouTube Channel Manager handles audits, SEO, retention scripts, thumbnails, Shorts optimization and competitor research. Video Watcher gives Claude the ability to actually watch a video, extract frames, transcribe audio and reason about what was on screen. Content Repurposing rides the Foundational substrate already, ready to take one recording into a thread, a clip pack and a newsletter section. Sits on top of the Foundational Creator Bundle.

Install

One-line install (macOS, Linux, WSL, Git Bash)

curl -sSL https://www.infinitegameos.io/bundles/the-performer/install.sh | bash

Idempotent. Safe to re-run. Edits Claude Code ~/.claude/settings.json in place to register two marketplaces and enable six plugins. Restart Claude Code after install.

Inspect the install script first

curl -sSL https://www.infinitegameos.io/bundles/the-performer/install.sh

Direct markdown URL (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, Aider)

https://www.infinitegameos.io/markdown/bundles/the-performer

What's inside

github.com/AgriciDaniel/claude-youtube · MIT

YouTube Channel Manager

A YouTube creator skill covering channel audits, video SEO, retention-aware scripting, hook architecture, thumbnail design briefs, content calendars, Shorts optimization, analytics review, monetization checks, competitor research and cross-platform repurposing. Designed for solo YouTubers and small channel teams. Installs as a single skill at ~/.claude/skills/youtube/. Activate with /youtube audit or by naming the channel work in plain language.

github.com/bradautomates/claude-video · MIT

Video Watcher

Gives Claude the ability to actually watch a video. The /watch command takes a URL or local path, downloads with yt-dlp, extracts frames with ffmpeg, transcribes via captions or Whisper and hands the full multimodal package back to Claude. Use it to review your own recordings before publish, study a competitor video without sitting through the whole thing or pull verbatim quotes from a podcast for repurposing. Installs as a Claude Code marketplace plugin (watch@claude-video).

github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills (video skill, already installed via Foundational Bundle) · MIT

Content Repurposing (already in your Foundational substrate)

The video production and repurposing chapter inside the marketing-skills plugin you installed with the Foundational Creator Bundle. Covers AI video generation, talking-head video, programmatic video frameworks (Remotion, Hyperframes), platform-specific cuts and template-driven repeated production. Does not require a separate install. Activate by asking Claude to plan a video, build a repurposing pipeline or design a multi-platform cut from one recording.

Definition

The Performer Bundle is the avatar-specific stack for recorded-media creators working with Claude Code in 2026. The Foundational Creator Bundle (Researcher, Plan Challenger, Source Harvest, Skill Creator, Systematic Debugging plus Content Strategy and AI SEO) is the assumed pre-install. The Performer layer adds two installable skills and surfaces a third skill that already rides the Foundational substrate. YouTube Channel Manager (AgriciDaniel, MIT) covers the YouTube creator surface end to end: channel audits, SEO, retention, hooks, thumbnails, Shorts and analytics. Video Watcher (Bradley Bonanno, MIT) gives Claude the ability to actually watch a video, extract frames, transcribe and reason about the content. Content Repurposing rides the marketing-skills plugin from the Foundational Bundle and covers AI video generation, programmatic video frameworks and multi-platform repurposing. Presence is the product for the Performer archetype. Every resource in the bundle either sharpens the discoverability layer, frees up time inside the production loop or extends what one recording can become across platforms.

Pre-install: the Foundational Creator Bundle

The Performer Bundle assumes the Foundational Creator Bundle is already present. The Foundational Bundle is the universal substrate: Researcher for topic and audience research before scripting, Plan Challenger for adversarial review of the series concept or the episode outline, Source Harvest for pattern extraction from reference channels and reference shows, Skill Creator for codifying the recurring production rhythm, Systematic Debugging for when the multi-tool pipeline breaks, plus Content Strategy and AI SEO for the calendar and discoverability layer. Performers need all seven. Installing them once at the substrate level is enough.

If the Foundational Bundle is not yet installed, install it first at /bundles/foundational-creator. The Performer Bundle install script in this page does not bring those skills again, and the Content Repurposing layer specifically rides the marketing-skills plugin that ships with the Foundational install.

What the install brings

The install script does two things. First, it registers the claude-video marketplace and enables watch@claude-video for the Video Watcher skill. Second, it clones the AgriciDaniel/claude-youtube repository and copies the YouTube Channel Manager skill files into ~/.claude/skills/youtube/. Both halves are idempotent. Re-running is safe. The script writes a timestamped backup of any existing settings.json or skills directory before any change.

After install, restart Claude Code. /watch becomes available for any video URL or local file. /youtube audit and the wider YouTube Channel Manager surface activate when channel work, video SEO, hook design or thumbnail briefs come up.

Content Repurposing is reachable without a separate install. The marketing-skills plugin from the Foundational Bundle includes the video production chapter. Ask Claude to plan a video, design a repurposing pipeline or cut one recording into multiple platform-specific pieces. The skill activates from inside the Foundational substrate without any additional setup.

How the three resources compose

YouTube Channel Manager runs at the planning and audit phases. Audit the channel before a series planning session. Generate retention-aware scripts before recording. Brief a thumbnail before publish. The skill carries the per-platform craft that channel work requires and that solo creators rarely have time to learn from first principles.

Video Watcher runs after recording or while studying a reference. Hand it a draft cut and ask for the rough patches. Hand it a competitor video and ask what the hook structure was. Hand it a long podcast and pull the most quotable moments verbatim. The skill is the missing input modality for video work; without it, Claude can only reason about the title, description and metadata.

Content Repurposing runs at distribution. One long recording becomes a thread, a short-form cut, a newsletter section, a LinkedIn carousel or a podcast clip. The video chapter inside marketing-skills handles the platform-aware cut design and the production pipeline (programmatic templates, AI avatars where appropriate, B-roll generation). The Foundational Bundle's Content Strategy skill sets the cadence; the video chapter executes the production.

The Foundational layer surrounds the three. Researcher gathers topic and audience research before any series gets greenlit. Plan Challenger stress-tests the series concept or the episode outline before recording. Source Harvest extracts patterns from reference channels and reference shows. Skill Creator codifies the recurring production rhythm into a reusable workflow. Systematic Debugging takes over when yt-dlp, ffmpeg, Whisper or one of the plugin chains produces unexpected output. Together with the Performer layer, the practice covers research, challenge, scripting, recording, watching, audit, repurpose, debug and distribute under one roof.

Use Cases

Solo YouTuber publishing a weekly long-form video

A solo YouTuber recording a weekly long-form essay video opens the planning session Monday morning. Researcher dispatches parallel workers across the topic and the audience-search layer. Plan Challenger reviews the series concept and the episode outline before scripting begins. YouTube Channel Manager generates the retention-aware script, the hook structure and the thumbnail brief. Recording happens Tuesday. Wednesday, Video Watcher reviews the rough cut and flags the slow patches. Thursday, Content Repurposing cuts a Shorts version, a thread version and a newsletter section from the same recording. Same week. One recording. Five surfaces.

Podcaster running a weekly interview show

A podcaster with a weekly interview format runs Researcher before the booking call to surface the guest's recent work and unanswered questions in the field. Plan Challenger stress-tests the question outline before the recording. After the recording, Video Watcher transcribes and pulls the three most quotable moments. YouTube Channel Manager turns those moments into Shorts-ready hooks for the YouTube channel. Content Repurposing handles the cross-platform pipeline: full episode on YouTube and audio platforms, three Shorts, a thread and a newsletter quote-card pack. The cadence becomes systematic instead of intuition-only.

Tutorial channel operator covering software walkthroughs

A tutorial creator covering a piece of fast-changing software runs Source Harvest against the latest documentation before recording each tutorial. YouTube Channel Manager handles the SEO layer and the retention-aware script structure. Recording follows. Video Watcher reviews the screen-record cut and flags the moments where the on-screen action does not match the narration. Content Repurposing turns each tutorial into a written walkthrough for the blog and a short-form preview for distribution. The freshness gap between software updates and tutorial republish gets shorter.

Short-form video creator running a daily TikTok and Reels practice

A short-form creator publishing a daily Reel runs Researcher weekly to refresh the topic queue. YouTube Channel Manager covers the cross-posting layer for the YouTube Shorts surface. Video Watcher reviews the day's draft cut against the platform-specific best practices for hook timing, mid-clip retention and end-card design. Content Repurposing handles the format-aware cuts: 9:16 for Reels and Shorts, 1:1 for the newsletter, 16:9 for the website embed. Daily output without daily reinvention of the wheel.

Livestreamer building an evergreen back catalog from broadcasts

A livestreamer broadcasting weekly often loses the long-tail value of the broadcast once the stream ends. Video Watcher transcribes the full broadcast and segments it by topic. YouTube Channel Manager turns each segment into a back-catalog video with its own SEO and retention structure. Content Repurposing pulls clips for short-form distribution and quotes for the newsletter. The broadcast stops being a one-time event and starts becoming a content engine that feeds the rest of the practice.

FAQ

Does the Performer Bundle include the Foundational Creator Bundle?

No. The Performer Bundle assumes the Foundational Bundle is already installed. Install /bundles/foundational-creator first if you have not already. The two-layer architecture means the medium-specific resources (YouTube Channel Manager, Video Watcher) install once on top of the universal substrate, and the Content Repurposing layer rides the marketing-skills plugin that ships with the Foundational install.

Why is Content Repurposing not in the install script?

It is already installed. The Foundational Creator Bundle ships the marketing-skills marketplace from Corey Haines, which includes a video production chapter covering AI video generation, programmatic video frameworks, AI avatars and platform-specific cut design. Performers who installed the Foundational Bundle already have it. The Performer Bundle install script only adds the two skills that are not already present (YouTube Channel Manager and Video Watcher).

What does Video Watcher actually do that I can't do without it?

Without Video Watcher, Claude can only reason about a video's title, description, transcript-if-provided and metadata. With Video Watcher installed, /watch turns any video URL or local file into a multimodal package: yt-dlp downloads the file, ffmpeg extracts representative frames, Whisper transcribes the audio if no captions exist and the full set hands back to Claude. The result is that Claude can review your rough cut, study a competitor video, pull verbatim moments from a podcast or audit on-screen action against the narration. Video becomes an actual input modality.

I do not have a YouTube channel. Is this bundle still useful for podcasters or short-form creators?

Yes. YouTube Channel Manager carries patterns that translate beyond YouTube: hook design, retention architecture, thumbnail composition and analytics review apply to TikTok, Reels, podcast cover art and short-form video on any platform. Video Watcher works on any video file or URL, not just YouTube content. The bundle is YouTube-aware but not YouTube-locked.

What does the install script actually change on my system?

It registers the claude-video marketplace in ~/.claude/settings.json under extraKnownMarketplaces and enables watch@claude-video under enabledPlugins via a jq merge. It clones github.com/AgriciDaniel/claude-youtube into a temp directory and copies the contents of skills/claude-youtube/ to ~/.claude/skills/youtube/. It writes a timestamped backup of settings.json and any existing skills/youtube directory before any change. No system-level changes happen outside ~/.claude.

Is the install reversible?

Yes. To remove watch@claude-video, restore the settings.json backup the script wrote, or delete the marketplace entry by hand. To remove YouTube Channel Manager, delete ~/.claude/skills/youtube. The Foundational Bundle is unaffected by either rollback.

How does the Performer Bundle relate to the other avatar bundles?

Same two-layer pattern across every avatar bundle. The Foundational Bundle is the substrate. The Builder, Writer, Performer, Teacher, Curator and Strategist bundles each ship a small medium-specific layer on top. A creator who works as both a Performer and a Builder installs the Foundational Bundle once plus both avatar bundles. No skill duplication.

Related

The Performer Bundle is one avatar-specific layer in a wider system. The substrate it sits on top of is the Foundational Creator Bundle. The design frame for the longer arc, where the recording rhythm becomes a body of work that compounds across years, is the Sovereign Life Playbook.

See the Sovereign Life Playbook