youtube-transcript-mcp AGENTS.md

youtube-transcript-mcp AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from mybuddymichael/youtube-transcript-mcp. It costs 333 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that fetches YouTube video transcripts, using Bun as its JavaScript runtime.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when developing or testing this server, especially when working with Bun, SQLite, Redis, Postgres, WebSockets, or transcript-fetching behavior.
Why use it?
They define the project's preferred runtime, built-in APIs, database choices, installation commands, and testing method so changes match the existing codebase.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/mybuddymichael/youtube-transcript-mcp/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mybuddymichael/youtube-transcript-mcp

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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Per session 333 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 333 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.00333 $0.00333
Opus 5 $0.00167 $0.00167
Sonnet 5 $0.00067 $0.00067
Haiku 4.5 $0.00033 $0.00033

Measured 4d ago against content hash 19b5a25e061d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

youtube-transcript-mcp AGENTS.md 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 4d 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.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

youtube-transcript-mcp

This is an MCP server for fetching YouTube transcripts.

Use bun instead of node

Default to using Bun instead of Node.js.

  • Use bun <file> instead of node <file> or ts-node <file>
  • Use bun test instead of jest or vitest
  • Use bun install instead of npm install or yarn install or pnpm install
  • Use bun run <script> instead of npm run <script> or yarn run <script> or pnpm run <script>
  • Bun automatically loads .env, so don't use dotenv.

APIs

  • Bun.serve() supports WebSockets, HTTPS, and routes. Don't use express.
  • bun:sqlite for SQLite. Don't use better-sqlite3.
  • Bun.redis for Redis. Don't use ioredis.
  • Bun.sql for Postgres. Don't use pg or postgres.js.
  • WebSocket is built-in. Don't use ws.
  • Prefer Bun.file over node:fs's readFile/writeFile
  • Bun.$ls instead of execa.

Testing

Use bun test to run tests.

import { test, expect } from "bun:test";

test("hello world", () => {
  expect(1).toBe(1);
});

For more information, read the Bun API docs in node_modules/bun-types/docs/**.md.

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. 4d ago First seen · 38 lines · 333 tokens per session scan A 19b5a25e061d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

youtube-transcript-mcp AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository mybuddymichael/youtube-transcript-mcp (59 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It adds 333 tokens to every session, about $0.0017 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.

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