notebooklm

notebooklm is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Buzzmatic/awesome-agent-skills. It costs 99 tokens per session (1,884 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line tool for using Google NotebookLM, a service that answers questions and creates study or media materials from supplied sources. It can work with sources such as web pages, YouTube videos, PDFs, Google Drive files, or text.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create notebooks, add sources, ask questions across notebooks, and generate or download items such as briefings, study guides, podcasts, slide decks, quizzes, or mind maps.
Why use it?
It lets an agent manage notebooks and generate source-based materials from a terminal. It uses a browser login session, which must be checked and may need to be renewed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents; positional $N argument; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to create notebooks, add sources, ask questions across notebooks, and generate or download items such as briefings, study guides, podcasts, slide decks, quizzes, or mind maps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/buzzmatic/awesome-agent-skills/notebooklm
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Buzzmatic/awesome-agent-skills --skill notebooklm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Buzzmatic/awesome-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 99 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,884 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 $0.00099 $0.01884
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.00942
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00377
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00188

Measured 8d ago against content hash 221e12380e02, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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 8d 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/notebooklm/SKILL.md · 165 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 165 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

NotebookLM CLI

Wraps Google NotebookLM through the nlm command-line tool (notebooklm-mcp-cli package, installed via uv tool install). Talks to NotebookLM's internal API using cookies from a real browser login - no API key required.

Authentication (check first)

Sessions last ~20 minutes. Before any operation, verify:

nlm login --check

If it reports "not authenticated" or "cookies expired", the user has to run nlm login themselves in their terminal - it opens a browser for Google sign-in and extracts cookies. Tell them to type ! nlm login in the prompt (the ! runs it in the live shell so output lands here). Do not try to launch it from a sub-agent or background bash - it needs an interactive browser.

Profiles for multiple Google accounts: nlm login --profile work, then nlm login switch work to make it default. List with nlm login profile list.

Auth state and cookies live in ~/.notebooklm-mcp-cli/.

Command structure

Two equivalent forms - pick whichever reads cleaner:

nlm notebook create "My Project"        # noun-first
nlm create notebook "My Project"        # verb-first

--json or --quiet for machine-readable output. --confirm skips destructive-action prompts (required for any non-interactive call).

Common workflows

Ingest URLs and generate a deep-dive podcast

# `notebook create` prints "ID: <uuid>" - extract it:
NB=$(nlm notebook create "Topic XYZ" | awk '/^  ID:/ {print $2}')
nlm source add $NB --url "https://example.com/article-1" --wait
nlm source add $NB --url "https://example.com/article-2" --wait
nlm audio create $NB --format deep_dive --length long --confirm
# Poll until ready, then download (artifact ID goes via --id, NOT positional):
nlm studio status $NB
nlm download audio $NB --id <artifact-id> --output podcast.mp3

nlm download <type> <notebook> alone grabs the latest artifact of that type. Pass --id to pick a specific one.

--wait matters - sources must finish processing before any artifact generation will use them. Note: --json works on list-type commands (nlm notebook list --json) but not on create; parse stdout for the ID, or alias the notebook with nlm alias set my-nb <id> once you have it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 165 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. 8d ago First seen · 165 lines · 99 tokens per session scan A 221e12380e02

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notebooklm is a skill published in the GitHub repository Buzzmatic/awesome-agent-skills (1 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 1,884 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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