extract-quotes

extract-quotes is a command for Claude Code from animalzinc/claude-plugins. It costs 9 tokens per session (898 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for finding representative statements about a chosen topic in interview transcripts, which are written records of interviews.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scan a transcript directory, identify topic-related passages, preserve speaker context, rate quote quality, and present the strongest results.
Why use it?
Searching many transcripts manually makes it harder to find relevant, clear, and useful quotes consistently.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is /extract-quotes pricing ./interviews/.

Part of the interview-transcript-analyzer plugin — 3 commands, 3 agents shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/animalzinc/claude-plugins
agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/animalzinc/claude-plugins/extract-quotes

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install interview-transcript-analyzer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 commands, 3 agents.

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Per session 9 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 898 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00009 $0.00898
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00449
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00180
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00090

Measured 6d ago against content hash d51015219fc8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

extract-quotes 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 6d 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.

plugins/interview-transcript-analyzer/commands/extract-quotes.md · 169 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 169 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Extract Quotes by Topic

Find the most representative and compelling quotes about a specific topic from interview transcripts.

Step 1: Scan Transcripts

Search directory $2 for transcripts:

  • Identify all transcript files
  • Count total transcripts available

Report to user:

## 📁 Transcripts Found

**Directory:** $2
**Transcripts:** [number] files

**Topic to search:** "$1"

Proceeding to extract relevant quotes...

Step 2: Extract Relevant Quotes

Use the quote-selector agent to:

For each transcript:

  1. Search for mentions of topic "$1" (and related terms)
  2. Extract full quote with context
  3. Rate quote quality (clarity, insight value, brevity)
  4. Include speaker/participant attribution if available

Quote selection criteria:

  • Relevant - Directly addresses the topic
  • Insightful - Reveals something meaningful
  • Clear - Standalone understandable
  • Concise - Not overly long (prefer 1-3 sentences)
  • Authentic - Conversational tone preserved

Step 3: Rank and Present Quotes

Default: Show top 10 quotes If --max-quotes specified: Show that many

Present to user:

## 💬 Quotes About: "$1"

Found [total number] relevant quotes across [number] transcripts.
Showing top [$3 or 10] by quality score.

---

### Quote 1 (Score: [X]/10)
> "[Full quote text]"

**Source:** [Transcript name / Participant ID]
**Context:** [Brief context if helpful - when/why this was said]

---

### Quote 2 (Score: [X]/10)
[Same format...]

---

## Quote Categories

**By theme:**
- [Sub-theme 1]: [count] quotes
- [Sub-theme 2]: [count] quotes

**By sentiment:**
- Positive: [count]
- Negative/Pain point: [count]
- Neutral: [count]

---

## Usage Tips

**To find more quotes:**
```bash
/extract-quotes "[topic]" [directory] --max-quotes 20

To search related terms:

/extract-quotes "pricing or cost or budget" [directory]

---

## Step 4: Optional - Export Quotes

**Ask user:**

Would you like to:

  1. Save these quotes to a file (quotes/$1-quotes.md)
  2. Copy to clipboard for pasting elsewhere
  3. Just view them here

Read the full file on GitHub · 169 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. 6d ago First seen · 169 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A d51015219fc8

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extract-quotes is a command published in the GitHub repository animalzinc/claude-plugins (15 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 898 once invoked, about $0.0000 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.