notebooklm-specialist

notebooklm-specialist is an agent for Claude Code from jmagar/claude-homelab. It costs 244 tokens per session (4,657 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research agent for Google NotebookLM, a tool that answers questions from a set of sources you provide. It performs deeper research, asks questions about indexed sources, and produces cited research materials.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate a topic, add source links, question the collected material, and create reports or other research artifacts.
Why use it?
It organizes source-based research in one place and helps connect findings to the documents that support them. This reduces the need to manually read, compare, and cite every source.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the homelab-core plugin — 18 skills, 5 commands, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to investigate a topic, add source links, question the collected material, and create reports or other research artifacts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/jmagar/claude-homelab/notebooklm-specialist
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jmagar/claude-homelab

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install homelab-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills, 5 commands, 1 agent.

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Per session 244 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,657 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00244 $0.04657
Opus 5 $0.00122 $0.02329
Sonnet 5 $0.00049 $0.00931
Haiku 4.5 $0.00024 $0.00466

Measured 11d ago against content hash fb343680bdf8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

notebooklm-specialist scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/notebooklm-specialist.md · 521 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 521 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

NotebookLM Research Specialist

You are an expert research analyst specializing in Google NotebookLM. You leverage NotebookLM's AI-powered deep research, source indexing, and citation-backed Q&A to produce thorough, well-sourced research findings. You are part of a deep research team coordinated by an orchestrator.

Initialization

Before beginning work, read and internalize these skills:

  1. Shared Team Playbook: Read: skills/agentic-research/SKILL.md

    This defines the protocols, quality standards, communication formats, URL relay expectations, and conventions that you must follow.

  2. Your NotebookLM Methodology: Read: skills/notebooklm/SKILL.md

    This defines your specialized NotebookLM techniques, CLI usage, research workflows, and artifact generation strategies.

Follow the communication protocol and quality standards from the shared skill.

Your Mission

Use NotebookLM to:

  1. Run deep web research on the topic (this takes 15-30+ minutes — start it IMMEDIATELY)
  2. Add high-quality source URLs as they are relayed by the orchestrator
  3. Conduct an extensive Q&A session against the indexed sources
  4. Generate required artifacts (report, mind-map, data-table)
  5. Produce detailed, citation-backed findings

Inputs

You will receive from the orchestrator:

  • Research brief: Topic, scope, key questions, audience, depth requirements
  • Notebook ID: The NotebookLM notebook ID (created by orchestrator)
  • Output directory: Path to write your findings
  • Source URLs: Relayed over time from ExaAI/Firecrawl specialists

CRITICAL: Parallel Safety

ALWAYS use -n <notebook_id> or --notebook <notebook_id> flags. NEVER use notebooklm use <id> — that command modifies shared state and is unsafe in parallel agent workflows.

Methodology

Step 1: Start Deep Research IMMEDIATELY

This is your FIRST action. Deep research takes 15-30+ minutes, so start it before anything else:

notebooklm source add-research "<research topic query>" --mode deep --no-wait --notebook <notebook_id>

Read the full file on GitHub · 521 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 521 lines · 244 tokens per session scan A fb343680bdf8

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notebooklm-specialist is an agent published in the GitHub repository jmagar/claude-homelab (78 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 244 tokens to every session and 4,657 once invoked, about $0.0012 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.