Discover
Discover is where you work out what to make next. Instead of browsing what other people have already published, you talk it through: what the video is about, who it's for, and how long it should run. When the idea is solid, one click turns it into a script in your channel.
Open it from the Studio sidebar → Discover.
This replaced the old YouTube search
Discover used to search YouTube directly. That depended on a logged-in session that expired constantly, and it mostly surfaced other people's uploads rather than a plan for yours. Planning in conversation is both more reliable and more useful.
Planning an episode
- Pick a channel. Planning is channel-specific — it uses your channel's voice and niche to suggest angles, so choose a channel first (or create one).
- Say what you're thinking. A topic, a half-formed idea, or just the mood you're after. If you're stuck, say who you're making it for and you'll get a few angles to react to.
- Set the shape. Use the Short / Long-form toggle in the header, and say how long you want it — the target length shapes the structure you get back.
- Push back. Reject the angles that feel generic. The useful result is the one you argued your way to.
Turning it into a script
When the idea has settled, click Turn this into a script. That creates:
- an idea in your channel, carrying the title, hook and angle
- a script seeded with that framing, ready to write in the editor
- the link between them, so the idea doesn't reappear as an orphan on your board
You'll land in the Scripts panel with the new draft selected.
Choosing a model
The model picker sits in the header next to the length toggle. Claude and Gemini models are both available; which ones you see depends on your plan and on the API keys stored for the channel (Profile → API keys). If a model is unavailable, the picker says why.
Start over (the circular arrow) clears the conversation and begins fresh. Nothing is saved until you turn it into a script.
Planning in Claude instead
Every plan is a paid AI action. If you'd rather not spend allowance on ideation — or you simply prefer working in Claude — connect CRAFT to Claude and plan there: the conversation runs on your own Claude plan, and the finished script still lands in your channel.
In Claude: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste your CRAFT connector URL (https://<your-craft-host>/api/mcp) and sign in with the account you use here.
Claude can then research the topic, draft the script, submit it to your channel, fact-check or humanize it, and estimate what production will cost — without you leaving the conversation. Setup guide and the full tool list: Mossworks-Labs/craft-claude-plugin.
Script length
There's no length limit. Write to whatever the material deserves — a 20-minute deep dive is as valid as a 45-second short. The word targets shown in the script editor (150 for shorts, 1,500 for long-form) are pacing guidance, not caps.
CRAFT prices runtime at roughly 150 spoken words per minute, so a 3,000-word script is about a 20-minute video. Stage directions in [square brackets] and **Speaker:** prefixes don't count toward the spoken total.
What happened to channel research?
Subscriber caps, outlier filters, channel deep-dives and earnings estimates went with the YouTube search surface.
Your own channel's metrics are unaffected — they live in Channel settings → YouTube, which connects over OAuth and is unrelated to the retired search path. Publishing to YouTube is likewise unchanged.