§ 01 · The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
Most people use Claude Code as a chat interface — one prompt, one response, reset and repeat. Income stream surfers discovered you can wire in persistent domain expertise via Agent Skill files and memory, turning it into a workflow engine that prompts itself better than you ever could.
What the video promised.
stated at 00:09 "This will change your lives if you follow everything I show you in this video." delivered at 08:35
Where the time goes.
00:00 – 00:15
01 · Cold open / 4-point thesis
Talking-head promise + Excalidraw slide: 4 reasons skills change everything.
00:16 – 00:54
02 · What are Skills + Memory workflows
Shows GitHub CLAUDE.md with YOU ARE THE ORCHESTRATOR heading — establishes mental model.
00:54 – 02:10
03 · Virtual employee framing + sponsor
Positions as virtual employee / OpenClaw alternative. Harbor SEO sponsor read.
02:10 – 03:13
04 · Live demo: thumbnail workflow
Claude Code v2.1.36. Does /clear for fresh session. Types thumbnail prompt.
03:14 – 04:01
05 · Finding assets (Gemini, Nano Banana)
Searches for images, settles on Claude Code screenshot as asset. Drag-and-drops into terminal.
04:02 – 05:32
06 · Feeding the video idea + vault
Explains meta video concept. Shows Obsidian vault with video-ideas subfolders. AI-edited channel video example.
05:33 – 06:10
07 · Previous thumbnail results
Shows strong thumbnail: SKILLS.MD FILES / VIRTUAL EMPLOYEE bold green text over dark scene.
06:11 – 07:30
08 · How the skills work technically
Excalidraw diagram: skill file + CLAUDE.md = automatic workflow trigger.
07:31 – 07:50
09 · Step 1: Transcript into a Skill
Took Learned by Leo thumbnail transcripts, repackaged as youtubeviralskill.md.
07:51 – 08:35
10 · Step 2: CLAUDE.md memory trigger
CLAUDE.md bridges skill to trigger: when user says X, load skill Y and run workflow Z.
08:36 – 09:02
11 · Thumbnail result revealed
Generated thumbnail appears. Creator reacts: that does look pretty good actually.
09:03 – 10:10
12 · CLAUDE.md ties it together
Full loop diagram: prompt -> CLAUDE.md triggers -> skill loaded -> output. /clear resets context but CLAUDE.md persists.
11:02 – 11:40
13 · The Matrix / kung fu brain analogy
Neo loads kung fu. You are making Claude Code an expert on NanoBanana. It prompts better than you.
11:41 – 12:19
14 · Proof: iterations in the vault
Scrolls dozens of video-ideas subfolders. This is how I was doing thumbnails until yesterday.
12:20 – 13:13
15 · Old way vs new way + research links
Old: 15-20 mins per thumbnail. New: one prompt. Auto-populated research README in Obsidian.
13:14 – 14:11
16 · How does this apply to YOU
WordPress skills, React agent skills, UI/UX + Nano Banana, HTML/CSS from image. Make it apply to you.
14:12 – 15:27
17 · Final thoughts + CTA
Not releasing exact system. 500 likes = release. CTA to harborseo.ai.
Visual structure at a glance.
Named ideas worth stealing.
06:11
model
The SKILL.md + CLAUDE.md Loop
- Step 1: Find a transcript with the domain expertise you want to encode
- Step 2: Repackage as a .md skill file, load as Claude Code Agent Skill
- Step 3: Add trigger in CLAUDE.md: when user says X, load skill Y
- Result: Claude Code runs the full workflow autonomously on every matching prompt
Encoding domain expertise once into a skill file + memory trigger creates a persistent automated workflow.
Steal for Any repeatable content workflow Joe runs more than twice
11:02
concept
The Kung Fu Brain Metaphor
Like Neo loading kung fu in The Matrix — you load domain expertise into Claude Code once, and it then prompts the tool better than you ever could manually.
Steal for Explaining the JoeFlow/Sessions skill system to an audience
Lines you could clip.
00:18
"Skills are literally changing my life. Yeah. That sounds like an exaggeration. I'm not joking."
00:59
"Think OpenClaw but less automation, cheaper, secure, and better."
11:20
"You're making Claude Code an expert on NanoBanana. And the thing about that is, it knows how to prompt NanoBanana better than I do."
12:22
"This is how I was doing thumbnails until yesterday when I discovered that you can basically create a workflow plus skills."
How they spent the runtime.
Hook length15s
Info densitymedium
Filler15%
Sponsor blocks
- 01:30 – 02:00 · Harbor SEO (creator own product)
Things they pointed at.
06:50channelLearned by Leo
02:10toolNano Banana
How they asked for the click.
15:01
product
"Check out harborsco.ai"
Soft mention, no hard sell. Bigger engagement CTA is the 500-likes gate on releasing the workflow — embedded in the body of the video.
Word for word.
HOOK opening / re-engagementCTA the pitch metaphor analogy
00:00HOOKI'm gonna show you guys a life hack for Claude code using agent skills that I think a lot of people are missing out on. This will change your lives if you follow everything I show you in this video. Let's jump into it.
00:15Okay, guys. So I'm gonna just quickly go through this. I'm gonna show you a demonstration of what I mean, and then I'm gonna show you how to set it up.
00:21So skills are literally changing my life. Yeah. That sounds like an exaggeration.
00:25I'm not joking. I'm not exaggerating. You can make a skill from anything, number one.
00:30Number two, combine it combine it with memory, so Claude .md to make a workflow. Now I have talked about these things before
00:39where I'll just show you. So interestingly, if you search Claude code wizard on Google, I actually do show up on on GitHub, is hilarious.
00:47This was something I made in the past that used Claude dot m d files in order to create a workflow. Right? But think this with skills inside, and you might see where I'm going with this.
00:58Right? So it's like having a . I'm not joking.
01:02I'll show you something in a minute that proves that. Think OpenClaw, but less automation, cheaper, secure, and better.
01:08So what I'm gonna show you is how I make my thumbnails. But what I want you to know is a, this is just one example of what you can do. You can do many other things.
01:15And b, like, nano banana inside ClaudeCode is particularly good because ClaudeCode is very, very good at writing prompts. Okay?
01:23CTASo just bear that in mind. Before continuing, guys, a very quick word from our sponsor, me. This is harborseo.ai,
01:31CTAand this is a tool that I created for people like you who have a SaaS application or a blog or an ecommerce store and you need help with blogging. You discover keywords, you write articles, and you help and we help you publish them as well.
01:44CTAAnd we even have a link building tool which will help you build backlinks and a link bait tool which will let you build pages on your website that will get you backlinks. And if you need a little bit more help or if you wanna push your tool a little bit more, you can also buy manual
02:00HOOKbacklinks where we will actually fulfill them. And you can even get half price off the first three months with the code half price links, and we will build those backlinks for you. Thank you for the attention.
02:11HOOKBack to the video. So let's just jump on over to the demonstration. I'll do a slash clear so that there's no context here whatsoever.
02:23HOOKbeta skill. I can't remember the exact name. Uh, plus the normal workflow to make me a thumbnail
02:39HOOKwith nano banana if needed, then generate the entire thumbnail. I'm just gonna put that because this is something new we're working on together.
02:49And, yeah, we and then what what all I need to do is just give it some assets, literally. That's all I need to do. So let's just go to Google.
02:55Let's type Gemini three image pro. Let's just see if we can get, like, a nice image here.
03:02I guess this is pretty good. I shouldn't let's go nano banana actually.
03:07Nano banana pro. I don't like any of these, to be honest with you.
03:13This is one of the things with Gemini and Google compared to, like, you know, Sonnet and stuff. They don't have their own images. I've noticed this because I've been obviously doing thumbnails.
03:23Right? Okay. So I guess we just go with this because I literally cannot find anything else.
03:29Just to show you guys an example, I guess. Do we need anything else? Probably
03:34not yet Claude code. So Claude code. So let's grab this one, let's say.
03:41Let's make it a bit bigger. Now this has assets on it, so I need to save to downloads like that. Drag and drop, and then say use these assets
03:51as a base. The thumbnail oh, sorry. The I need to give you the idea.
03:57So the idea of the video is a bit meta. We are creating a video on the process we've created here of using skills.mdplus,
04:09um, claude.md to create an automated workflow like a virtual assistant,
04:16uh, where you do my work for me. So, yeah, extremely meta. And now I'm just gonna give it a quick reference.
04:21Let me just show you some examples as well. So I'm just gonna go to YouTube master. This is really impressive stuff, guys.
04:26You need to get into this. I'm telling you. I'm not I'm not exaggerating here.
04:29Let me just click on the grab. So let's just go to video ideas. Right?
04:34So this is how it spits out my ideas. Previously, I had this to the point where I generated an actual video. Um, if you looked at if if you wanna see an example of this, I'll just show you quickly.
04:46So slash my channel. This video here, you can tell it's AI generated, but it's not AI generated.
04:52It's, uh, AI edited. Right? I like, this was edited by CalledCode using the kind of thing that I'm showing you in today's video.
05:00Right? I'm not releasing this method just yet. I don't know if I am gonna release it because all it'll do is just lead to more and more people,
05:07um, using kind of this, uh, thing to generate not slop. This isn't slop because it's still me talking,
05:14and it's me doing all the screen recordings. But, basically, what it does is it just slams those altogether. Right?
05:20Really, really cool stuff. The video did not do very well, but that that's fine. That's not important.
05:24I'm just experimenting. And I wanted to see how far I can go with it as well. So and then we can look at these as well.
05:29So these are the thumbnails that it's been making. This one's not that good. Where are they?
05:35So, yeah, this one was really, really good. This was a really nice thumbnail. Look at that.
05:39Quality is amazing. So I'm actually gonna give this as a reference. Uh, I'm giving you
05:45a thumbnail as a reference. I don't want you to use that style, but the way you did the dot m d folders is perfect. Right.
05:54So I'm just gonna send that. And then more recently, we've been working on this kind of style thumbnail, not that one, this kind of style thumbnail because this is what works on my channel. Right?
06:05Text plus assets from the business. But this is really interesting stuff, guys.
06:11Right? So I'll just let that run, and I'm gonna show you guys how I actually create these things. But if you see here, it says skill nano banana.
06:18So it it can use nano banana because I've given it that skill. This is the wrong, uh, I need you to load the beta version too, please. Actual thumbnail style.
06:30I just wanna make sure it does that because I don't wanna waste time, guys. And I it my memory file and stuff is a little bit confusing right now. I have to go through it again because I've changed a lot of things recently.
06:39I just need to see that it's loaded the correct one, and then I'll show you how we actually do this. Okay. Perfect.
06:45So YouTube thumbnail beta has now been loaded. That's fine. I can now leave that.
06:48So the way I did this, right, I used to watch this creator learned by Leo. Right?
06:54Really, really good creator if you're just starting on YouTube. And what I did was I took the transcripts of his videos, right, the important ones. So like this one, how to literally force
07:03everyone to click your videos. And he's got, like, rules that you can use, but, like, how the the thing I was having problems with is how do I consistently
07:14use these rules with my style of thumbnail in all my videos easily. Right? So what I did was I created a skill.
07:21All you do is just copy the transcripts. Right? And I don't think this this is, like, copy this there's there's any, like, copyright here or anything like that because we're we're reimagining
07:32the entire concept of his video. Right? And I'm also not selling this.
07:36It's not commercial. I wouldn't recommend doing this and then selling that. That's a little bit
07:41I don't know. Probably people are doing that already. Don't get me wrong.
07:44And probably it's a really good way to money to make money, but it's a little bit I don't know. I don't like it personally. Okay.
07:50So I need to give it a Gemini Gemini API key. Okay. So what what is the actual process here?
07:55The first thing you do is you get a transcript of a YouTube video and call it, like, you know, uh, mine was, like, youtubeviralskill.md or whatever.
08:08Right? The name's not important. You'd it is because the way that this works is in the memory after
08:13right? So first of all, this is the skill. So you load this as a skill.
08:17But how does Claude know how and when to use the skill? Right? So what I did was I created a memory file.
08:25Right? So this is just Claude dot m d. Claude.
08:30M d. And all it says is when I say to you, um, create well, it's not all it says.
08:36It the lot okay. Amazing.
08:42I'll probably redo this because I'm not a big fan of this style of thumbnail, damn, that does look pretty good actually. I might have to try that. God, I look tired in that fucking picture.
08:50That's really, really good actually. This is really nice. I probably will redo it.
08:55I'll probably tinker with this a little bit, but you can see what I'm what I'm cooking up here maybe. So all it does is when I say
09:02so there's sorry. There's one more skill, which is the, um, the top one that says for the thumbnail.
09:08The second one is, uh, research and titles. Right?
09:13So learn by Leo, again, has he he kind of has this combo of thumbnail plus title. They're the most important thing. The the thumbnail and title have to be
09:24complimentary and not working against one on each one another or saying the same thing.
09:31Right? They can't say the same thing. You have to they have to say slightly different things.
09:33They have to complement each other. So I load those two skills where every time I say make me a thumbnail, make me a video idea about x and y, it loads the nano banana thumbnail skill.
09:46Right? Because that's what it's got in its memory. And that's why I did the slash clear, by the way, because if you think about it, I me doing a slash clear here, this is a completely fresh conversation with Claude.
09:56It's like it has no memory of what's happened previously in our conversations except in claude.md where this premade workflow is. Right? And the other thing it does is it does research and titles.
10:07Right? Same thing, loads the skill, and then does that. There's also a hook thing.
10:12I'm not really working with hooks as much. I don't know. Me
10:17and hooks, we don't really go we don't really get on that well. I just don't know how to I just don't know how to do it, basically. Um, it's not for me.
10:24I'd rather just make my content. I tried to make a highly edited video using AI. It's just not for me.
10:30This is my style. Whatever. It is what it is.
10:33So it comes up with the name, the title. Right? But, again, I'm not a big fan of this title, to be honest with you.
10:39Um, I would probably do a little bit of work on that as well. And it comes up with this thumbnail. Previously, this process would you know, it would take me a lot of time.
10:47Okay? And I can even say, okay.
10:50Now just find some news from today and make me a video idea thumbnail title, etcetera.
10:58Right? So this is where things start to get really interesting because you can drill this process down. But the important thing, and I keep talking about this.
11:06Right? There's that scene in the matrix where Neo has to has to fight someone.
11:13Right? Has to fight someone. I can't remember exactly what it is.
11:16And then he loads kung fu into his brain. Right? But the point of this is is that he's then an expert
11:24on kung fu. Right? But what you're doing is you're making Claude Code an expert on NanoBanana.
11:31And the thing about that is, right, is that it knows how to prompt NanoBanana better than I do. And I can show you that because I've done this a million times
11:41already. Look. This is how you know that I'm telling the truth, guys.
11:45I've done this so many times. So look. All of these
11:52wasn't two months ago. What?
11:57Yeah. There we go. All of these are me trying to do exactly
12:01what I've just shown you. Look how many times I've done it. One week ago, one week ago, two weeks ago.
12:05So what I used to do was I would give it a thumbnail that I liked, that it had designed, and then say, you know, tell me what makes this thumbnail good. And then I would try and get it.
12:14I would give it a Canva thing. Right? This is already, like, fifteen, twenty minutes of my time.
12:18Gone. And then it would try and generate one that looks a little bit like the original one that I sent it. Right?
12:24This is how I was doing thumbnails until yesterday when I discovered that you can basically create a workflow plus skills. And like I said, the important thing is that it has, like, this kung fu brain
12:36of it's it's an expert on what I'm trying to get it to do. Right?
12:41So then the final thing about this, guys, is that it also creates me this README file. So, for example, this isn't gonna be a very good example because there won't be many links and things. But if I just go to GLM just drops and then goes to README.
12:53And then let me just, um, open this up. This is all part of its memory. Right?
12:57I just said, you know, I wanted to do I wanted to do this, that, and the other when I asked you to. And, also, another just quick aside, guys. Obsidian is is pretty cool.
13:06I do like Obsidian. So look, it gives me all of these links. So I don't even have to do any research anymore.
13:13Right? This is next level for me. Now the reason
13:17that you you might watch this video and be like, how does this apply to me? Make it apply to you. Right?
13:22Right? If you need to generate WordPress websites, give it a WordPress skill. Right?
13:26I'm pretty sure someone told me the other day that there's now WordPress skills. Right?
13:31Agent skills. Agent skills for WordPress, bang. New agent skill for WordPress, January 30.
13:38You know, if you're making WordPress sites, give it this. If you're making UI UX on Nano Banana, give it all of the rules of UI UX into Nano Banana and get it to create this amazing thing. And then you could even give it a
13:51skill to to generate HTML, CSS, and JavaScript or React code from the the image. Right?
13:59And I believe React agent skill. There's a React agent skill now even. The reason I say React, by way, is because Next.
14:05Js is built on React. So just that that's what I'm saying. So, yeah, the cell have all of these skills as well.
14:10So you can make these predetermined workflows that do a very specific job for you. And like I said, I actually managed to get it to edit this video. Now you can go and watch that video.
14:20You can tell me that it's a bad video. It's fine. I understand.
14:23But it was purely edited by AI, which I think is absolutely mad considering how good the the actual result was. So, yeah, what I normally do is I say, give me 10 more ideas for titles using our normal system.
14:37Plus, please, uh, can you redo the thumbnail without me but with other assets I originally sent to you, reedited by nano banana.
14:50But the skills file is perfect. Yeah, guys.
14:55CTAThat's pretty much it. I'm gonna leave the video there. There's not gonna be anything in the description that will like, you're not gonna find
15:01CTAlike, uh, I'm not gonna give you this exact system. This is my system specific to what I'm trying to do. If people want this system, if, I don't know, 5,000
15:10CTApeople ask me to off if this gets 500 likes, this video, I will release it. But this is just my system, so it doesn't really make sense to you. But, yeah, it is what it is.
15:22CTAIf you're watching all the way to the end of the video, you're absolutely a legend. I'll see you very soon with some more content. Peace out.
— full transcript
§ 05 · For Joe
Steal the skill-file loop.
Claude Code workflow playbook
Encode a domain expert's knowledge into a .md file once, wire it to a CLAUDE.md trigger, and Claude Code prompts the tool better than you ever could manually.
- Find any YouTube tutorial in your niche that codifies rules or a process — download the transcript.
- Reformat it as a .md skill file: strip filler, keep the rules, structure for Claude to parse.
- Add one trigger line to CLAUDE.md: when user says [phrase], load [skill] and run [workflow].
- The system is self-improving — Claude Code generates its own research README each run, reducing manual research to zero.
- The meta-move: use the skill system to BUILD the skill system (this video is the live demo of exactly that).
- This is already how ~/.claude/skills/ works in JoeFlow — the creator re-derived the same architecture independently.
§ 05 · For You
How to build an AI that already knows your workflow.
If you use Claude Code for anything repetitive
You can teach Claude Code to be an expert in any tool or process once — and then it runs that process for you automatically every time you ask.
- Find a YouTube video or article that explains the rules of the thing you keep doing (thumbnail design, blog SEO, code review, etc.).
- Copy the transcript or key rules into a .md file — that's your Skill file.
- Tell Claude Code in CLAUDE.md: when I ask for X, use this skill file.
- From then on, Claude Code loads that expertise fresh in every session without you re-explaining anything.
- The result: a workflow that runs in one prompt instead of fifteen minutes of setup every time.
