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.
npx skills add artemchuikin/youtube-mcp --skill youtubegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/artemchuikin/youtube-mcpWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/artemchuikin/youtube-mcp/youtube)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/artemchuikin/youtube-mcp/youtube"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/artemchuikin/youtube-mcp/youtube/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/artemchuikin/youtube-mcp/youtube"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/artemchuikin/youtube-mcp/youtube.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00103 | $0.02040 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00051 | $0.01020 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00021 | $0.00408 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00204 |
Grade A, and why
youtube 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 11d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 142 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
YouTube (TranscriptOut)
This plugin bundles the hosted transcriptout MCP server (https://api.transcriptout.com/mcp).
Its 14 tools are the only data path: never scrape youtube.com and never call the REST API
directly from this skill.
Authentication is an API key. The server expects Authorization: Bearer sk_... on every
request. The key is configured once in the client's MCP settings. If tools fail with a 401, the
header is missing or the key was revoked: tell the user to add a key from
https://transcriptout.com/dashboard (free account, 100 credits on signup, no card) to the
transcriptout server config in their client.
When to use
DO use when the user:
- Pastes a YouTube link or 11-character video ID, or asks to summarize, quote, transcribe,
translate or fact-check a video →
get_transcript - Asks what a video says, or wants the spoken content, even without saying "transcript" →
get_transcript - Wants video info (title, channel, duration, available caption languages) without the words →
get_video_info - Wants to find videos or channels on a topic →
search_youtube - Names a creator, pastes an
@handleor channel URL, or asks what a channel posted recently →latest_channel_videos - Wants to search within a channel →
search_channel_videos - Wants a channel's full upload history →
list_channel_videos - Pastes a playlist link, or wants every video in a series or course →
list_playlist_videos - Wants to find one video inside a long playlist by title →
search_playlist_videos - Needs transcripts for MORE THAN ~5 videos →
submit_transcripts_job, then pollget_transcripts_joband readget_transcripts_results - Asks how many credits are left, or plans a large batch →
get_credits(free) - Is researching a topic where talks, lectures, tutorials or reviews are good sources →
search_youtube, then transcripts of the best hits
Do NOT use when:
- The link is furniture, not the subject: a signature, a citation trail, a README badge
- The conversation is ABOUT YouTube (the company, the platform) rather than about content on it
- Anything that writes: uploads, comments, likes, account changes. This plugin only reads
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 142 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 96396653eb9e
youtube is a skill published in the GitHub repository artemchuikin/youtube-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 103 tokens to every session and 2,040 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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Use when YouTube data is needed without Google API quotas or OAuth setup: transcripts, video metadata, channel info, search results, playlists. Triggers on pasted YouTube links, creator names, @handles, topic research, video summaries, channel browsing, or any request where YouTube content would help — even if not…