# vidIQ agent skills for Claude Code, Cursor and RevampKey

> Ready-made vidIQ playbooks for AI agents: benchmark your YouTube channel against competitors with AI, keyword and title research for your next video, scout rising YouTube topics with vidIQ and AI. Free SKILL.md files for Claude Code, Cursor and Codex, or one click in RevampKey.

## Skills

- [Use vidIQ with AI, safely and well](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/vidiq/skills/essentials.md): Sets up the vidIQ connector for YouTube creator data: confirms which linked channel to use, picks the right tool for the question, keeps results small, and asks before anything changes.
- [Benchmark your YouTube channel against competitors with AI](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/vidiq/skills/competitor-benchmarking.md): Compares your channel, or a chosen competitor, against a peer set in one niche to show what the leading channels do differently in cadence, format and outlier videos. Read-only: it never changes anything on any channel.
- [Keyword and title research for your next video](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/vidiq/skills/keyword-and-title-research.md): Researches search demand and competition for a topic in vidIQ, pulls related keywords, and drafts title and tag options grounded in that data. It reads volume and competition together and never changes your channel without asking.
- [Scout rising YouTube topics with vidIQ and AI](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/vidiq/skills/topic-trend-scouting.md): Finds topics and formats gaining interest in your niche that your channel has not covered, and judges whether each one is still rising or has already peaked. Read-only; it asks before changing anything.

## Install

- RevampKey: connect vidIQ at https://revampkey.com/marketplace/vidiq; the skills come with it.
- Any Agent Skills tool, into the current project:

```bash
for s in essentials competitor-benchmarking keyword-and-title-research topic-trend-scouting; do
  curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .agents/skills/vidiq-$s/SKILL.md https://revampkey.com/marketplace/vidiq/skills/$s/SKILL.md
done
```

### What is a vidIQ agent skill?

A SKILL.md file: a short playbook an AI agent loads when your request matches it. Each vidIQ skill describes one job, which vidIQ tools to use in which order, what to check first and when to stop and ask you.

### Do the vidIQ skills change anything on their own?

4 of the 4 only read. The others tell the agent to show you the change and wait for a yes before it creates, edits or deletes anything in vidIQ.

### Which tools can use these skills?

Any agent that reads the open Agent Skills format: Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, VS Code with Copilot and RevampKey. In RevampKey they are attached when you connect vidIQ; elsewhere you copy the folders into your project or skills directory.

### Do I need the vidIQ MCP server too?

Yes. The skills tell the agent how to do the work; the vidIQ MCP server gives it the tools to do it. The vidIQ MCP setup guide covers every client.

MCP setup guide: https://revampkey.com/marketplace/vidiq.md