05 · One topic, many directions

One topic, twelve directions

For the same video, the agent tries different compositions, lines, colors and moods. You don't start from a blank canvas. You pick from the directions laid out in front of you.

06 · Try it

Pick one yourself.

Pick a channel and replay the run from analysis to renders. These are real results recorded earlier: no sign-up, no cost.

햇살한컵 서하도윤의 기어해부머니번역소 한결야식연구소 밤11시지도 밖으로 소은커커리어해커 알렉스

This video

퇴근 후 30분 홈카페 루틴, 한 달 해보니 달라진 것

햇살한컵 서하 · Demo creator (fictional channel)

Replay

01Analysis02Concepts03Renders

Audience

• The after-work recharger

  They click when the time and the action are clear, like ‘2 hours after work’, ‘one thing today’ or ‘30 minutes, before and after’, and a before-and-after shows a cold after-work scene turning warm: it feels like they could win back their own evening now.

• The ₩100,000 studio-room director

  They click when the title pairs a cost, a time or a count with the change, like ‘redoing a studio for ₩100,000’, ‘3 hours, before and after’ or ‘5 things I threw out’, and the thumbnail contrasts a fluorescent-lit studio with the room turned warm.

• The one-thing-today person

  When they see low-pressure lines like ‘a day of doing nothing’, ‘just one thing today’ or ‘30 minutes on a listless evening’ and a scene that actually gets a little tidier, they click for a moment of permission and recovery, not a solution.

Visual grammar

• warm, intimate, aspirational
• Uses a large female face or medium portrait as the primary focal point
• Places bold Korean text in open negative space beside the subject, usually left or right of the face
• Uses single-scene lifestyle compositions with natural window light and softly detailed bedroom interiors

Avoid

• ✕split-screen comparison layout
• ✕product-only composition without a person
• ✕high-contrast dark or neon color treatment
• ✕big bold red text
• ✕shocked faces

Past thumbnails

Agent-native

One prompt. Your agent makes the thumbnails.

autokliq is built for AI agents to use directly. Paste one prompt into Claude Code or Codex and the agent connects autokliq itself and brings back your first thumbnails. You only sign in.

From the agent you already useAvailable now

❯_Claude Code

Copy prompt

> Make YouTube thumbnails for my channel with autokliq.

1. If the autokliq MCP server isn't connected yet, read https://autokliq.com/agents.md and follow it. I'll sign in when asked. 2. Call autokliq_get_account to check my channel. If there is none, give me the connect link and wait until it's connected. 3. If my free first thumbnail pack is still being made, wait for it, then show me the images with links. 4. Then plan 6 thumbnail concepts for my latest long-form video (ask me which video if the first pack already used it) and summarize them by tier. 5. Render the concepts I pick. Show me the cost first and run anything that uses credits only after I approve it; then show me the images with links.

Fetch(https://autokliq.com/agents.md)

└ Read the setup guide

Bash(claude mcp add --transport http autokliq https://mcp.autokliq.com)

└ Added the autokliq server · choose Authenticate in /mcp

✓ Google sign-in · allow autokliq (your step)

autokliq_get_account

└ Channel connected · making 3 free first thumbnails

autokliq_get_project

└ First 3 thumbnails done · 0 credits

Consistent

Creative

Experimental

I planned 6 concepts and 3 were rendered free. Render another?

> Do one more Experimental

autokliq_render_thumbnails

└ needs_approval · 30 credits · runs after you approve

> Yes, go ahead

autokliq_render_thumbnails(quote_token)

└ Rendered · 30 credits used

Experimental

On Claude.ai or ChatGPT, add a connector with this URL

https://mcp.autokliq.comCopy

Inside autokliq

Producer

Not open to everyone yet

Plan thumbnails for “주담대 고정 vs 변동, 내년 금리 시나리오 3개로 계산해봤습니다”

• Reading the channel brief
• Listing videos
• Starting a thumbnail plan
• Checking a job

I planned 6 concepts from your channel brief. No credits used.

1. Consistent변동금리 손해가 더 컸다
2. Consistent변동금리는 끝까지 유리할까?
3. Creative오늘보다 수수료 회수 뒤가 이득
4. Creative3억원 대출, 이득은 늦었다
5. Experimental30년 만기 이자가 갈라졌다
6. Experimental0.5% 내려도 바로 못 아꼈습니다

Render “오늘보다 수수료 회수 뒤가 이득”, please

Render the chosen concepts

30 credits

Spend 30 creditsDon't

↳ You approved 30 credits

• Render thumbnails
• Checking a job

Done. You can edit it in the project right away.

Ask your Producer

Paid actions run only after you approve them.

A staged conversation · time compressed · real renders. In real time, planning takes about 4–5 minutes and rendering about 4. Here it is compressed.

The Producer and outside agents use the same tools under the same rules. Anything that spends credits shows a quote and asks first, unless you turn on auto-approve.

For agents: https://autokliq.com/agents.md · MCP https://mcp.autokliq.com

07 · What builds up

The more you use it, the better it knows your channel.

What you pick, edit, reject and how a video does after you post it stays in the channel profile. The next plan starts from that record.

1. Plan→
2. Pick · edit · reject→
3. Publish→
4. Recorded in the profile↺

08 · Real creators

Two real creators use it on their own channels.

Career Hacker Alex

196K subscribers · as of 2026-09-24

An engineer at Meta who runs a Korean channel about working with AI. He plans and makes his own thumbnails with autokliq.

Visit the channel

Thumbnails were always the hardest part of my channel, so I built this for myself. I used it on my own videos first, checked it with YouTube's A/B test, and now I want to share it with other creators.

Same-video A/B test · YouTube Test & Compare

메타 개발자들은 Opus랑 Astra로 뭘 만들어봤을까?

Honestly, I thought the one on the left was the better-made thumbnail. Viewers picked the one on the right.

October 8 – 11, 2026 · same title, only the thumbnail differed · 10,521 thumbnail impressions (October 8 – 10)

YouTube's Test & Compare reports watch-time share, not click-through rate. This is one test on one video; it does not mean every video will see the same gap.

Three real videos · the thumbnail live on YouTube now (all three made with autokliq) next to other concepts for the same video

지극히 평범한 대학생이 어떻게 메타 E7 엔지니어가 됐을까?

메타 개발자들은 Opus랑 Astra로 뭘 만들어봤을까?

메타 개발자가 육아하면서 부업 4개 돌리는 유일한 방법

실밸개발자

@sv.developer · 37K subscribers · as of 2026-10-11

A senior engineer at Meta in Silicon Valley who runs a Korean channel on AI and hands-on engineering, and makes its thumbnails with autokliq.

Visit the channel

Planning and editing a thumbnail used to take me more than five hours per video. Now I just pick from the candidates autokliq makes, and it takes me under ten minutes. All 19 long videos since June went up this way, and the channel grew from 28K to 37K subscribers in that time.

Using it since 2026-03-31 · 378 projects · 1,255 renders (as of 2026-10-11)

The 5 with the highest first-week click-through of 14 long videos since 2026-06-01 that use an autokliq thumbnail as is · all live on YouTube now

Usage is what autokliq recorded; click-through rates come straight from YouTube's reports. Each is that video's own number, never compared with a thumbnail made without autokliq, so it does not show what autokliq alone did.

09 · Start

Your first 3 thumbnails are free.

Sign in with Google and connect your channel: we make 3 for your latest video right away.

Planning

Free

One render

30 credits · about $0.25 on paid plans

Free plan

300 credits a month · 10 renders

claude mcp add --transport http autokliq https://mcp.autokliq.com