notebooklm

notebooklm is a skill for Claude Code from ArieGoldkin/claude-forge. It costs 52 tokens per session (1,251 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A programmatic interface to Google NotebookLM, a research workspace that answers questions from documents and other sources you provide. Sources can include web pages, PDFs, YouTube videos, Drive files, and media.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create notebooks, add sources, chat about their contents, and generate audio, video, slides, reports, quizzes, flashcards, infographics, or mind maps.
Why use it?
It keeps research sources together and lets you ask questions about them instead of reviewing every file separately. It can also turn the collected material into different study or presentation formats.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: paths in frontmatter.

Part of the atk plugin — 16 skills, 25 commands, 1 agent, 1 hook shipped together

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 skills/ariegoldkin/claude-forge/notebooklm
Any agent
npx skills add ArieGoldkin/claude-forge --skill notebooklm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ArieGoldkin/claude-forge

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install atk, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 25 commands, 1 agent, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,251 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 $0.00052 $0.01251
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00626
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00250
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00125

Measured 6d ago against content hash 1204e5aea592, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

notebooklm 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/ai-toolkit/skills/notebooklm/SKILL.md · 148 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 148 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

NotebookLM

Programmatic access to Google NotebookLM via the notebooklm-py CLI. Supports notebook management, source ingestion, AI chat, and content generation (audio, video, slides, reports, quizzes, flashcards, infographics, mind maps).

Prerequisites

Verify installation before any operation:

notebooklm --version        # Check CLI installed
notebooklm auth check --test # Verify authentication

If not installed: see ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/setup-guide.md.

Core Workflows

1. Create Notebook + Add Sources

notebooklm create "Project Research"
notebooklm use <notebook_id>
notebooklm source add "https://example.com/article"
notebooklm source add "./document.pdf"
notebooklm source add "https://youtube.com/watch?v=..."
notebooklm source wait    # Block until all sources processed

Source types: URLs, PDFs, YouTube, text, Markdown, Word, audio, video, images, Google Drive.

2. Chat with Notebook

notebooklm ask "Summarize the key findings"
notebooklm ask "Compare the approaches in sources 1 and 2" --json
notebooklm history         # View conversation history

3. Generate Content

All generation commands support --wait (block until complete) and --language override.

# Audio podcast (5-20 min generation)
notebooklm generate audio "Make it conversational" --wait

# Video overview (15-45 min generation)
notebooklm generate video --style whiteboard --wait

# Slide deck
notebooklm generate slide-deck --wait

# Report
notebooklm generate report --template briefing-doc --wait

# Quiz / Flashcards
notebooklm generate quiz --difficulty hard --wait
notebooklm generate flashcards --quantity more --wait

# Infographic / Mind map / Data table
notebooklm generate infographic --orientation landscape --wait
notebooklm generate mind-map --wait
notebooklm generate data-table "Compare features" --wait

4. Download Artifacts

notebooklm download audio ./podcast.mp3
notebooklm download video ./overview.mp4
notebooklm download slide-deck ./slides.pptx    # Editable PPTX
notebooklm download quiz --format markdown ./quiz.md
notebooklm download flashcards --format json ./cards.json
notebooklm download infographic ./infographic.png
notebooklm download mind-map ./mindmap.json
notebooklm download data-table ./data.csv

Read the full file on GitHub · 148 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 148 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 1204e5aea592

Subscribe to this mod's changes

notebooklm is a skill published in the GitHub repository ArieGoldkin/claude-forge (6 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 1,251 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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