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youtube is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from artemchuikin/youtube-mcp. It costs 0 tokens per session (2,062 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of tools for working with YouTube videos, channels, and playlists through transcripts, which are written records of spoken video content.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to retrieve, summarize, translate, quote, or fact-check video speech, find videos on a topic, inspect channel content, and work with playlists.
Why use it?
It gives an agent a defined way to understand and research YouTube content, including videos supplied by link, ID, or channel name.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

not rated 1repo changed 23d ago A scan 0 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to retrieve, summarize, translate, quote, or fact-check video speech, find videos on a topic, inspect channel content, and work with playlists.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/artemchuikin/youtube-mcp/youtube
View source ↗ artemchuikin/youtube-mcp transcriptout.com
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.

Any agent
npx skills add artemchuikin/youtube-mcp --skill youtube
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/artemchuikin/youtube-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote 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.

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README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/artemchuikin/youtube-mcp/youtube/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/artemchuikin/youtube-mcp/youtube)
Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
<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>
Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,062 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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.
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 $0.00000 $0.02062
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00825
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00412
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00206

Measured 23d ago against content hash 6637cb64251f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

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 23d 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.

skills/youtube/SKILL.md · 142 lines

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?utm_source=youtube-mcp&utm_medium=skill (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 @handle or 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 poll get_transcripts_job and read get_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

Read the full file on GitHub · 142 lines

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. 23d ago Changed 6637cb64251f
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 142 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 96396653eb9e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

youtube is a skill published in the GitHub repository artemchuikin/youtube-mcp (1 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,062 tokens. 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.

Researchmcpmcp-servertranscript-apiyoutube-apiyoutube-searchyoutube-transcript
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youtube compared with skills from other repositories

youtube next to 6 skills from other repositories
ModTypeStarsLast pushLicenceScanTokensWorks with
youtubeartemchuikin/youtube-mcpSkill124d agoMITA0Claude Code, Codex
youtubeZeroPointRepo/youtube-mcpSkill131mo agoMITA0Cursor
youtube-searchZeroPointRepo/youtube-skillsSkill1.2k5d agoMITA78Claude Code
youtube-channelsZeroPointRepo/youtube-skillsSkill1.2k5d agoMITA78Claude Code
youtube-fullZeroPointRepo/youtube-skillsSkill1.2k5d agoMITA112Claude Code
transcriptapiZeroPointRepo/youtube-skillsSkill1.2k5d agoMITA110Claude Code
youtube-dataZeroPointRepo/youtube-skillsSkill1.2k5d agoMITA84Claude Code