youtube-summarizer

youtube-summarizer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Demerzels-lab/elsamultiskillagent. It costs 40 tokens per session (1,151 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A YouTube transcript and summarisation tool that fetches captions, creates structured summaries, and can send transcripts to messaging platforms. YouTube is a video-hosting service.

In plain words
What is it for?
Summarising YouTube videos, extracting key insights, reading metadata, and obtaining downloadable transcripts.
Why use it?
It saves time when you need the main points or a written record without watching the entire video.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Summarising YouTube videos, extracting key insights, reading metadata, and obtaining downloadable transcripts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/demerzels-lab/elsamultiskillagent/youtube-summarizer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Demerzels-lab/elsamultiskillagent --skill youtube-summarizer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Demerzels-lab/elsamultiskillagent

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 1,151 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 $0.01151
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00575
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00230
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00115

Measured 8d ago against content hash 84e4b66cf730, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

youtube-summarizer 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.

public/skills/abe238/youtube-summarizer/SKILL.md · 162 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 162 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

YouTube Summarizer Skill

Automatically fetch transcripts from YouTube videos, generate structured summaries, and deliver full transcripts to messaging platforms.

When to Use

Activate this skill when:

  • User shares a YouTube URL (youtube.com/watch, youtu.be, youtube.com/shorts)
  • User asks to summarize or transcribe a YouTube video
  • User requests information about a YouTube video's content

Dependencies

Required: MCP YouTube Transcript server must be installed at: /root/clawd/mcp-server-youtube-transcript

If not present, install it:

cd /root/clawd
git clone https://github.com/kimtaeyoon83/mcp-server-youtube-transcript.git
cd mcp-server-youtube-transcript
npm install && npm run build

Workflow

1. Detect YouTube URL

Extract video ID from these patterns:

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID
  • https://youtu.be/VIDEO_ID
  • https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VIDEO_ID
  • Direct video ID: VIDEO_ID (11 characters)

2. Fetch Transcript

Run this command to get the transcript:

cd /root/clawd/mcp-server-youtube-transcript && node --input-type=module -e "
import { getSubtitles } from './dist/youtube-fetcher.js';
const result = await getSubtitles({ videoID: 'VIDEO_ID', lang: 'en' });
console.log(JSON.stringify(result, null, 2));
" > /tmp/yt-transcript.json

Replace VIDEO_ID with the extracted ID. Read the output from /tmp/yt-transcript.json.

3. Process the Data

Parse the JSON to extract:

  • result.metadata.title - Video title
  • result.metadata.author - Channel name
  • result.metadata.viewCount - Formatted view count
  • result.metadata.publishDate - Publication date
  • result.actualLang - Language used
  • result.lines - Array of transcript segments

Full text: result.lines.map(l => l.text).join(' ')

4. Generate Summary

Create a structured summary using this template:

📹 **Video:** [title]
👤 **Channel:** [author] | 👁️ **Views:** [views] | 📅 **Published:** [date]

**🎯 Main Thesis:**
[1-2 sentence core argument/message]

**💡 Key Insights:**
- [insight 1]
- [insight 2]
- [insight 3]
- [insight 4]
- [insight 5]

**📝 Notable Points:**
- [additional point 1]
- [additional point 2]

**🔑 Takeaway:**
[Practical application or conclusion]

Read the full file on GitHub · 162 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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 · 162 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 84e4b66cf730

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youtube-summarizer is a skill published in the GitHub repository Demerzels-lab/elsamultiskillagent (10 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 1,151 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 2026-09-03.