a youtube assistant for the work around your videos

what a bot can do in YouTube

start with the part of the channel you need help with. comments support a question review, playlist items support an organisation check, and video details support a title or description review. none of those alone proves what a speaker said in the video.

composio, the connection service dusk bot uses for apps, lists 68 YouTube actions (catalog version 20261101_00, read 12 november 2026⁴). dusk bot treats 31 of them as reads, 6 as sends and the other 31 as changes. an action counts as a read only when its name starts with a read word like get, list or search, so a bot you allow only to read can never call the rest. a send is anything that reaches a person outside the app or moves money, like bind live broadcast: it waits for your Allow unless you've given that bot a daily amount it may send alone.

connect YouTube

1. open Connected apps in the sidebar.
2. pick YouTube and sign in on YouTube's own page, so your password goes to them and never to a bot.
3. choose which bots may use it, and whether each may only read or may also change things. your bookkeeper doesn't need your YouTube.
4. ask in plain words. reading and drafting happen freely; sending asks you first.

connect youtube, then identify the channel and videos you want the bot to review. give a comment reviewer only read access at first. dusk bot counts caption download as a change, so a read-only bot cannot call it; an exact action allowance can keep that separate from publishing or moderation.

routines to copy

tell the bot whether it is reviewing your channel or researching supplied videos. each message below asks for evidence the toolkit can return and leaves publishing and moderation out of the job.

every tuesday at 10, read comment threads on the youtube videos i listed for our beginner series. group practical viewer questions by topic. include the video and comment behind each question. do not reply or moderate comments.

on the first friday of each month at noon, list the items in the onboarding playlist i gave you. compare their titles with our supplied lesson checklist. flag missing topics as candidates for review, not proof that a lesson is absent from the videos.

every thursday at 3, read the details of the channel videos i marked for review. check their descriptions against the contact address and resource links i supplied. show mismatches and the current wording. do not update the videos.

what it asks you first

posting comments and replies asks for approval by default. if you allow a daily sending amount, a bot may send within it, so leave the default in place when you want each viewer reply reviewed. one exception: a bot on Full access with no sending rule of its own may send up to 25 a day without asking, so give full-access bots Ask every time under sending.

editing video details, changing playlists and moderating comments are separate changes. do not assume the send approval covers them. a read-only bot cannot make those calls. if you choose to permit them, specify the allowed actions and write "ask me before you change anything" into the routine. the question notebook above can stay entirely read only.

what it cannot do

• promise a transcript for any video link. the toolkit lists caption tracks and can download an available track, but not every video's captions will be available.
• summarise the spoken content from titles, descriptions or comments alone. ask for a metadata review when that is all the connection returned.
• download caption content with a read-only bot. dusk counts caption download as a change, so a read-only bot can't do it.
• collect scheduled channel reviews from a sleeping computer. local jobs require dusk bot to be running; dusk cloud is available for routines that need an awake host.

comments can guide the next useful video

ask for questions a creator can answer, with repeated questions grouped together. a viewer describing a problem is useful context; it is not proof that your instructions caused it. keep the original comment beside the summary so you can judge the tone yourself.

for broader topic work, start with market research. if you turn a review into a newsletter, distinguish caption evidence from your own commentary.

choose the right input for a summary

for a video-content summary, tell the bot to look for a caption track and stop with a clear explanation if it cannot obtain one. for a channel planning job, video details and viewer questions may be enough. saying which one you want stops it from summarising a video it never read.