youtube-thumbnails
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Use when designing or fixing a YouTube thumbnail, making variants for an A/B test, or working out which thumbnail style wins on a channel — including the trap where CTR looks fine but the test keeps selecting the duller image on watch-time share. NOT pairing the title with the thumbnail as one click-promise (that is `youtube-packaging`), NOT channel positioning or niche (that is `youtube-strategy`), NOT setting a thumbnail through the Data API (that is `youtube-api`).
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npx skills add ericrisco/rsc-harness --skill youtube-thumbnails -a claude-code
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