Claude makes your YouTube videos and schedules them. Every week, on autopilot.
What happens when you ask
- It reads your channel. Your library, which videos beat your own usual numbers, the breakouts on channels you watch, and what is already scheduled.
- It picks the topics. One per open day, each built on what works for you, never a repeat of a recent title.
- It writes every script. A hook in the first line, nothing invented: twenty to forty-five seconds for a Short, or up to ten minutes in chapters for a long video.
- It makes the video as motion graphics. Headlines rise as the voice says them, lists, checklists, numbers and stamps land on their words, scenes slide and flood in, and every move has its sound, over music made for the video. In the style you pick, in your colors, with your logo and your own pictures.
- It checks its work. It looks at the frames before anything is uploaded and renders again if a word is cut off or misspelled.
- It schedules it. Title, description, tags and a cover go up with the video, which goes from your computer straight to YouTube.
Pick a style
The same script about Runsheet, made in each of the five styles. Each has its own type, transitions, music and sounds, so your videos look like yours and not like everyone else’s. Studio comes with every account; the other four come with any paid plan. Press play: every one has a voice.
Long videos too, with chapters
Ask for a long video and Claude writes it in chapters, up to ten minutes, and makes it at 1920 by 1080 in the same styles, with a voice, music and sound effects. Every chapter card becomes a YouTube chapter at its exact time, so the description’s chapter list writes itself, and a captions file is made for YouTube’s subtitles. Then it writes the title, tags and thumbnail and schedules it.
Ask: Make a five minute video on how I plan my week.
Made for your channel, not for everyone’s
The same engine, two other channels, each in a look of its own and in its own brand color. Same voice engine, different music, different moves.
Made the video yourself? Claude watches it first
Hand Claude a finished video and it writes everything YouTube asks for from what is actually in it, then schedules it. On your computer, on your Claude plan.
- It hears every word. The speech becomes a transcript with timestamps on your own machine, with names and brands fixed by how they sound.
- It looks at the picture. Frames from across the video, so it knows what is on screen, who is in it and what text is shown.
- It reads your channel. Which of your titles beat your own usual numbers, and the words your viewers search.
- It writes the title. Five different approaches, the searched phrase first, short enough not to be cut off, and nothing the video does not deliver.
- It writes the description. A first line that works on its own in search, then what the video covers, your links, and chapters at the real moments, in the format YouTube turns into chapters.
- It makes the thumbnail. Your best frame with three to five big words that add to the title instead of repeating it, checked at phone size.
- It schedules it. Tags, the thumbnail and the publish time go up with the video, straight from your computer to YouTube.
Ask: Upload C:/Videos/episode-12.mp4 for Thursday at 6pm, or point it at a folder of finished videos. Every rule it writes by is YouTube’s own, from YouTube’s help pages: the lengths each screen shows, the chapter format, where links work and where hashtags go. The first time, it fetches the speech model it shares with the clip cutter, a one-time download of about 760 MB.
Got long videos? It cuts them into Shorts
- It hears every word on your computer. The speech is turned into text on your own machine, and the video goes nowhere until it goes to YouTube.
- It reads the whole thing and picks the moments. Each one stands on its own, opens with a hook and ends on the payoff.
- It frames it for a phone. Your face stays in the shot, or the whole screen stays in view for recordings and slides.
- Captions follow what you said. Word by word, lit as you say each one, with names and brands spelled right.
- Weekly, it takes the next one. Point it at a folder of your long videos and each run cuts the newest one it has not cut yet.
Ask: Cut Shorts from my latest video and name the file. The first time, it fetches its speech model, a one-time download of about 760 MB.
Set it up once
- In Runsheet, open Settings, API keys and make a key with Read, Write, Write copy and Upload from this machine ticked.
- In Claude Code, in your terminal or the Code tab of the Claude desktop app, add Runsheet:
/plugin marketplace add KalpeshMahida0212/runsheet-mcp/plugin install runsheet@runsheet
and paste your key when it asks. - Ask:
Fill next week’s Shorts.The first run sets itself up: it checks your computer and installs only what that job needs, about 90 MB for Shorts, plus the speech part (about 760 MB) only when it cuts clips or watches a video of yours that has sound. It needs Node 20 or newer and Chrome or Edge, which draws the frames, so no browser is downloaded.
Make it weekly, hands off
In the Claude desktop app, open Code, then Routines, then New routine, choose Local and weekly, and give it one line: Use the runsheet-shorts skill to fill next week’s Shorts. (or Use the runsheet-long skill to make this week’s long video.). It runs on your computer while the app is open, and every week the next one fills itself. A system scheduler running claude -p works too; the plugin’s guide has the exact command.
Nothing goes out unseen
- Every video is scheduled at least a day ahead, and YouTube keeps it private until its time.
- Runsheet emails you for each one, with a link to watch it, move it or pull it.
- One Short a day at most, and no topic that repeats a recent title.
- A natural voice over words and your own footage: no fake people, no copied voices.
On claude.ai too
Connect Runsheet in claude.ai (Customize, Connectors) and add these skills under Customize, Skills, Upload a skill. Making the videos needs Claude on your computer; planning, writing and reviewing work anywhere.
- runsheet-plan.zip: Plan your next weeks from your own channel, with scripts.
- runsheet-write.zip: Titles, descriptions, tags, chapters, translations and posts by YouTube's own rules, saved to YouTube.
- runsheet-review.zip: A weekly review: what beat your channel's own numbers and what to do next.
What it costs
Claude does the writing and the making on your own Claude plan, so Runsheet spends no AI credits on any of it. On Free, Claude makes your first video, a Short or a long one, in Studio, to see it work on your own channel. Paid plans make as many videos a month as they publish, Shorts and long videos together, in all five styles: 15 on Starter, 60 on Creator and 250 on Network. A Short every day needs Creator. Free publishes 4 videos a month, about one a week. See the plans.
Questions about Claude making your videos
Can I choose how my Shorts look?
Yes. There are five styles: Studio, Kinetic, Neon, Pop and Editorial, each with its own type, transitions, music and sounds. Pick one in the settings or name it when you ask. Studio comes with every account; the other four come with any paid plan.
Can it make long videos too?
Yes. Ask for a long video and it writes the script in chapters, up to ten minutes, makes it at 1920 by 1080 in your style with a voice, music and sound effects, writes the title, the description with the chapters at their exact times, the tags and the thumbnail, and schedules it. It also writes a captions file for YouTube's subtitles.
How many videos can Claude make?
One on Free, a Short or a long one, in Studio, to try it on your own channel. On a paid plan, as many a month as the plan publishes, Shorts and long videos together: 15 on Starter, 60 on Creator and 250 on Network, in every style. Fixing a video before it goes out does not count as another.
Can it write the title and description from my own video?
Yes. Give it the file and it hears the speech and looks at frames from across the video on your computer, then writes the title, description, chapters, tags and a thumbnail from what is really in it, using your channel's own best titles as the guide. Nothing is sent to Runsheet but the words it writes and the upload itself, which goes straight to YouTube.
Does Runsheet see my videos?
No. The video is made on your computer and goes from it straight to YouTube. Runsheet sees the title, the description and the time it should go out.
Which voice does it use?
Microsoft's neural voices, free and natural, in dozens of languages and accents. It starts with a clear US English voice and you can name any other in its settings file.
Can it use my own clips?
Yes. Point it at a folder of your pictures or clips and it puts them in its scenes. Everything else it draws itself: the type, cards, icons and transitions, in your colors.
Where does the music come from?
It is made for each video, in code, on your computer: no samples and nothing from any song or library, so it is yours to publish anywhere. You can also give it your own track, or none.
Can it cut Shorts from my long videos?
Yes. Name a video on your computer, or point it at a folder of them. It hears the speech on your own machine, picks moments that stand on their own, frames them for a phone, captions every word as it is said and schedules them like any other Short. Only your own videos: it never cuts someone else's.
Do I have to check every Short?
No. That is the point: it runs on its own. Each one is scheduled at least a day ahead and Runsheet emails you about it, so you can always pull one before it goes public.