content-ideas

/content-ideas

An AI content idea generator that does your morning research for you — it reads what's working across X, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, then hands you a daily "For You" feed of content ideas framed against your own brand.

I built this for my own YouTube channel and used it to grow from 700 to over 10,000 subscribers in three months. It's not just for YouTubers — it's for anyone who has to keep producing content: creators, businesses and marketers, personal brands, founders, agencies, newsletter and podcast writers. If your week starts with "what should I make next?", this skill is for you.

Claude Code (recommended — auto-updates via marketplace):

/plugin marketplace add bradautomates/content-ideas
/plugin install content-ideas@content-ideas

Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, or any of 50+ Agent Skills hosts:

npx skills add bradautomates/content-ideas -g

(-g installs globally for your user, available across all projects. Drop it to scope per-project.)

More install options (claude.ai web, manual) in the Install section below.

One ScrapeCreators API key covers all four platforms — X, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube (including transcripts). 100 free calls, no card. Nothing else to install: the runtime is pure Python stdlib.

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The problem it solves

The hard part about content is everything before the idea: opening four apps, scrolling until something sparks, watching a pile of other people's videos, and trying to hold the patterns in your head just to figure out what's worth making this week. That research grind eats hours.

/content-ideas takes over that one job: idea aggregation. It sorts through what everyone else in your niche is doing, surfaces what's actually working, and hands you a short list of ideas so you can skip the scroll and go straight to deciding what to make.

It deliberately stops there. It doesn't write your scripts, it doesn't replace your creative judgment, and the ideas it gives you are exactly that — starting points. The best version of any idea still has to be yours: your angle, your spin, your format. Think of it as the researcher and editor handing you a briefing, not the creator. It collapses the hours of aggregation; what you build from the brief is still you.

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Why this exists

I run a YouTube channel and a business, Solaris Automation, so I live downstream of the same question every day: what should I make next? I usually start by looking at what's working right now but doing that by hand means doomscrolling and taking notes to spot the patterns.

So I built a skill to do the morning research for me, and used it on my own channel to go from 700 to over 10,000 subscribers in three months. It pulls what the creators I watch actually posted, ranks it by engagement instead of recency, reads the comments to see what audiences are actually asking for, and hands me the overperformers plus a few concrete starting-point ideas framed against my own pillars and voice. It's the difference between browsing for inspiration and being briefed on it.

The personalization is the point. Before it recommends anything, it studies your own content to learn your niche, pillars, and voice. It then checks every idea against what you've already published so it doesn't suggest reruns. Upvote and downvote anything in the feed and it remembers using auto memory: a self-improving loop where every run sharpens the next.

What people actually use it for

The daily brief. /content-ideas first thing in the morning. One page: every tracked creator's last week of posts merged with discovered niche outliers, sorted by what's overperforming, plus up to 10 starting-point ideas.

Niche-scoped ideation. /content-ideas ai video tools biases the feed and the ideas toward a topic. Useful when you're planning a series, a campaign, or chasing a specific trend rather than scanning your whole world.

Reading the comments at scale. The skill pulls the comments off competitors' posts and reads them, so you see what audiences are confused about, asking for, or arguing over.

Competitor teardown on demand. Drop in a handful of post URLs and get them fetched, scored, and analyzed — hook, format, comments, why it landed — without adding the account to your tracked list. Good for "how did this specific post blow up?"

Profiling your own presence. During setup it studies your own channels over the last 90 days to characterize your niche, pillars, and voice, so every idea afterward is framed as you, not a generic trend report.

What makes it different