video-to-knowledge

video-to-knowledge is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Charlesmpc/by2kb. It costs 40 tokens per session (443 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for turning a YouTube or Bilibili video, or a local audio or video file, into a transcript, summary, and detailed study notes.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for downloading or processing media, transcribing speech, creating a short abstract, and producing longer notes through bounded enrichment steps.
Why use it?
It removes the need to watch or listen through the entire recording to find and organize its main ideas.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is for downloading or processing media, transcribing speech, creating a short abstract, and producing longer notes through bounded enrichment steps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/charlesmpc/by2kb/video-to-knowledge
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 Charlesmpc/by2kb --skill video-to-knowledge
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Charlesmpc/by2kb

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 443 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 $0.00040 $0.00443
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00221
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00089
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00044

Measured 9d ago against content hash 45bd3bcc4401, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

video-to-knowledge 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 9d 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.

by2kb/integrations/hermes/skills/video-to-knowledge/SKILL.md · 36 lines

What it actually says

Video to knowledge

The installed Hermes plugin handles a bare Bilibili or YouTube URL automatically. For a media attachment, first save the attachment to a private temporary path, then pass that exact path as the source argument. The workflow runs the deterministic transcription stage first, then uses the Hermes host model for two bounded enrichment calls. Do not clone or inspect the by2kb repository.

For an explicit/manual request:

  1. Check installation with by2kb version. If missing, use the packaged install-by2kb Skill. The default installation is pipx install by2kb[asr-whisper,youtube] with by2kb init --preset agent-local.
  2. Use cloud Doubao ASR only when the user explicitly selects it. Never ask the user to send TOS or ASR credentials through an IM conversation.
  3. Run by2kb ingest <URL_OR_LOCAL_PATH> --enricher external_agent --json.
  4. Run by2kb enrichment next <JOB_ID> --provider <HOST_PROVIDER> --model <HOST_MODEL> --json.
  5. When status is needs_input, follow the returned system and user prompt exactly, save the bounded response as UTF-8 Markdown, and run by2kb enrichment submit <JOB_ID> --operation-id <ID> --output-file <PATH> --provider <HOST_PROVIDER> --model <HOST_MODEL> --json.
  6. Repeat steps 4–5 until next returns status completed.
  7. Report the three knowledge-base paths: raw transcript, short abstract, and long-form study notes.

Never place model credentials in by2kb when using this path. If enrichment fails, run by2kb enrichment fail <JOB_ID> --message <ERROR> --retryable so it can be resumed without retranscribing.

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. 9d ago First seen · 36 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 45bd3bcc4401

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video-to-knowledge is a skill published in the GitHub repository Charlesmpc/by2kb (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 443 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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