youtube-knowledge

youtube-knowledge is a plugin for Claude Code from teobouancheau/youtube-knowledge-mcp. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, MIT.

A local YouTube research and knowledge tool that can search videos, read transcripts, comments, and metadata, cut clips, and keep a searchable library. It requires yt-dlp, a command-line program for downloading or reading online video data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding information in YouTube videos, reading it with timestamps, reviewing comments and metadata, making clips, and maintaining searchable channel libraries.
Why use it?
Information spread across videos and channels is difficult to search and reuse. This tool brings transcripts, comments, metadata, clips, and channel notes into a local collection.

Plugin for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code plugin manifest.

Good fit Finding information in YouTube videos, reading it with timestamps, reviewing comments and metadata, making clips, and maintaining searchable channel libraries.

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Install in Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add teobouancheau/youtube-knowledge-mcp
/plugin install youtube-knowledge
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/teobouancheau/youtube-knowledge-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.
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.
Security

Grade A, and why

youtube-knowledge 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 13d 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.

plugin/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 19 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "youtube-knowledge",
  "displayName": "YouTube Knowledge",
  "version": "3.0.2",
  "description": "Search YouTube, read timestamped transcripts, comments and metadata, cut clips, and keep a searchable local library and per channel brains. Runs locally; needs yt-dlp.",
  "author": {
    "name": "teobouancheau",
    "url": "https://github.com/teobouancheau"
  },
  "homepage": "https://github.com/teobouancheau/youtube-knowledge-mcp#readme",
  "repository": "https://github.com/teobouancheau/youtube-knowledge-mcp",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": ["youtube", "transcript", "mcp", "knowledge-management", "video"],
  "icon": "./icon.png",
  "documentationUrl": "https://github.com/teobouancheau/youtube-knowledge-mcp#readme",
  "supportUrl": "https://github.com/teobouancheau/youtube-knowledge-mcp/issues",
  "privacyPolicyUrl": "https://github.com/teobouancheau/youtube-knowledge-mcp/blob/main/PRIVACY.md"
}
Contents

What it installs

The manifest is a name and a version. 1 MCP server travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them. Each is measured on its own page, and each can be installed alone.

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. 13d ago First seen · 19 lines scan A b4223ae28626

Subscribe to this mod's changes

youtube-knowledge is a plugin published in the GitHub repository teobouancheau/youtube-knowledge-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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 2026-10-15.