yt-dlp

yt-dlp is a plugin for Claude Code from trtmn/agent-plugins. Its manifest loads nothing; the 1 skill, 1 command it bundles cost 109 tokens per session together, scanned A, original, Unlicense.

A plugin for downloading YouTube videos, thumbnails, and subtitles with yt-dlp, with optional conversion, remote-server syncing, and Jellyfin library refreshes.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for downloading YouTube media, converting files to HEVC/AAC MP4 when needed, and optionally sending results to a media server.
Why use it?
It groups the YouTube media workflow into the coding agent and works locally without remote-server settings.

Plugin for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code plugin manifest.

Good fit It is for downloading YouTube media, converting files to HEVC/AAC MP4 when needed, and optionally sending results to a media server.

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Install in Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add trtmn/agent-plugins
/plugin install yt-dlp
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/trtmn/agent-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured The manifest loads nothing itself; its 1 skill, 1 command cost 109 tokens a session between them.
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

yt-dlp 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 25d 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/yt-dlp/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 6 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "yt-dlp",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "Download YouTube videos, thumbnails, and subtitles with yt-dlp, transcode anything not natively Apple TV-compatible to HEVC/AAC MP4, and optionally sync the result to a remote media server over rsync/SSH with a Jellyfin library refresh. Use this skill whenever the user wants to download a YouTube video, grab a video's thumbnail, or asks to \"/ytdlp\" a URL. All remote-sync and Jellyfin settings are optional and configured per-machine via environment variables — with no configuration at all, it just downloads to a local folder."
}
Contents

What it installs

The manifest is a name and a version. 1 skill, 1 command travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 109 tokens a session between 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. 25d ago First seen · 6 lines scan A 49bc18d469cb

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yt-dlp is a plugin published in the GitHub repository trtmn/agent-plugins (2 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed Unlicense. 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 2026-09-24.