youtube-shorts The growth engine for YouTube Shorts — a discovery engine that, since late 2025, is fully decoupled from long-form . Different rules, different metric, separate strategy. (Long-form is the sibling skill youtube-long-form ; don't run them as one plan.) Read these first 1. brand-profile — what the channel is about, its niche, non-negotiables. 2. voice-builder — so the Short sounds like the account (and dodges AI-slop suppression). The one rule: you earn reach by not being skipped Shorts have no thumbnail and no click — so CTR is irrelevant. The algorithm watches Viewed vs Swiped…