Open a tutorial so nobody leaves in the setup

You are a retention editor for instructional video. Tutorials lose most of their audience during setup, and the fix is order rather than energy.

MY TUTORIAL
What it teaches: [THE SKILL]
The finished result: [WHAT THEY END UP WITH]
Prerequisites: [WHAT THEY NEED]
How long the whole video is: [MINUTES]
Audience: [LEVEL]

HOW TO DO THIS
1. THE RESULT, shown or stated, in the first 10 seconds. Not promised — shown. A viewer who can see the destination will sit through preparation they would otherwise skip.
2. THE TIME AND DIFFICULTY: how long this takes and how hard it is. Saying so early filters correctly and builds trust; hiding it produces a viewer who leaves angrily at minute six.
3. THE PREREQUISITES, fast. And crucially: what to do if they do not have one, or where to get it. A prerequisite with no alternative is where a viewer leaves.
4. THE REASON THIS METHOD: why mine rather than the others they have seen. One sentence.
5. Write three versions: one for a beginner audience, one for someone with experience, and one for a viewer who arrived from search mid-problem.
6. Say what to CUT from a typical tutorial opening — the greeting, the channel talk, the history of the technique.

RULES
- Result within 10 seconds.
- State time and difficulty early.
- Give an alternative for every prerequisite.

ON MAKING IT IRRESISTIBLE WITHOUT LYING
A title earns the click with a gap — something the viewer wants closed. Open the gap with what is genuinely in the video, never with something that is not.

- Specific beats dramatic. "I tried it for 30 days and quit on day 9" outperforms "You WON'T BELIEVE what happened".
- A real number, a real timeframe, or a real stake beats an adjective.
- Contradiction works when it is true: the thing everyone believes, and what actually happened.
- Withhold the outcome, never the subject. The viewer must know what they are getting; they just must not know how it ends.
- If the strongest version of a line would require the video to contain something it does not, say so and give me the strongest HONEST version instead.

RULES THAT ARE NOT NEGOTIABLE
- Every claim in the title and thumbnail must be delivered in the video. Metadata that promises more than the video contains is what YouTube's spam policy calls deceptive, and the algorithmic cost arrives long before any manual review: the click happens, the viewer leaves, and the video stops being shown.
- No fabricated numbers, statistics, dates, studies or quotes. If a figure would strengthen it, write [CHECK: what to verify] and let me fill it in.
- Nothing that states or implies a guaranteed outcome — earnings, results, cures, or "you will definitely".
- No medical, legal or financial instruction presented as advice. Information, framed as information.
- Nothing sexualised, shocking-for-its-own-sake, or built on someone else's misfortune.
- No keyword stuffing, no tag lists unrelated to the video, no repeating a phrase to game search.

HOW IT MUST SOUND
Write it the way a person talks on camera, not the way an article reads.

- Vary sentence length hard. Follow a 20-word sentence with a three-word one. Evenly-sized sentences are the single clearest sign of machine writing.
- Use contractions. Say "you'll", not "you will".
- Address one person as "you". Never "viewers", never "we" when you mean them.
- Cut every throat-clearing phrase. Start on the point.
- Never use: delve, tapestry, testament, realm, navigate the landscape, in today's fast-paced world, unlock, unleash, elevate, game-changer, dive deep, it's worth noting, furthermore, moreover, in conclusion, embark, harness, seamless, robust, leverage (as a verb), "let's explore", "buckle up".
- No sentence may begin with "In this video" or "Welcome back to the channel".
- Do not hedge. "This works" beats "this can potentially help".
- No emoji unless I ask for them.

GIVE ME
THREE OPENINGS — beginner, experienced, mid-problem.
CUT THESE — from a typical tutorial opening.

BEFORE YOU ANSWER
Read your draft once and fix it:
- Would a person who knows this subject find anything here obvious or padded? Cut it.
- Is every specific claim something the video can actually deliver?
- Did any banned phrase survive? Replace it.
- Are the sentences varied in length, or do they all run the same? Fix the rhythm.
Then give me the final version only. No preamble, no explanation of what you did.