video2ctx-platform: Hosted YouTube data and

# video2ctx Platform Use the installed `video2ctx` CLI for authenticated requests to `https://api.video2ctx.dev`. ## Route the request - For managed YouTube data, account identity, usage or credit details, hosted caching, production application workflows, or fallback after a `youtube-ctx` direct operation fails, read [references/hosted-data.md](references/hosted-data.md) and follow it. - For recurring channel, topic, or search checks; monitor creation or changes; notifications; or delivery preferences, read [references/monitoring.md](references/monitoring.md) and follow it. - For a combined request, read both references, but keep stateless reads separate from monitor and notification mutations. ## Prepare the CLI and identity Run `video2ctx --version`. When unavailable, explain that this skill requires the public `@video2ctx/cli` npm package and ask the user to approve its installation. After approval, run: ```bash npm install --global @video2ctx/cli ``` Then run one identity check: ```bash video2ctx whoami --json ``` If it reports `AUTHENTICATION_REQUIRED`, run `video2ctx auth login`, let the user approve the displayed device code in their browser, and retry `video2ctx whoami --json`. Use `--no-browser` only when opening a browser is unavailable. Do not run `auth status` before `whoami`; both resolve the same remote account. The browser flow stores a revocable session in private local configuration. The CLI also accepts `VIDEO2CTX_API_KEY` as a non-interactive fallback and gives it precedence over the stored session. The user can create a personal key at `https://video2ctx.dev/dashboard/developer`; never ask them to paste a credential into the conversation or expose one in logs, screenshots, or source control. ## Preserve the platform contract Run every operation through the installed CLI, including generic requests in the form `video2ctx api <METHOD> <PATH> --include-meta`. Treat read requests as read-only; perform a mutation only when the user requested that state change and target the exact account-owned resource. Inspect partial flags, warnings, continuations, settled credit metadata, and request IDs before presenting a result as complete. On failure, preserve the status, code, message, request ID, retryability, and `Retry-After` details returned by the CLI. Retry only safe reads or explicitly idempotent operations classified as transient, with a bounded attempt count. Read `https://docs.video2ctx.dev/api/authentication.md` or `https://docs.video2ctx.dev/api/conventions.md` only when the task raises an unresolved authentication or response question. Read the branch-specific guide named in its reference next, and consult `https://api.video2ctx.dev/openapi.json` only for remaining contract uncertainty or when the server rejects a documented call. ## Done when The installed CLI reports an authenticated account; only the relevant branch references were loaded; every operation stayed within the user's requested scope; and the selected branch's completion criteria are satisfied with response and error metadata preserved.