youtube-summary

youtube-summary is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from elisymlabs/elisym. It costs 21 tokens per session (498 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A YouTube video summarizer that reads a video’s transcript and produces an overview, key points, facts, and takeaway.

In plain words
What is it for?
Summarizing videos from links, including videos whose transcripts are split into multiple parts.
Why use it?
It saves you from watching or reading a long video transcript when you need its main ideas.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Summarizing videos from links, including videos whose transcripts are split into multiple parts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/elisymlabs/elisym/youtube-summary
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 elisymlabs/elisym --skill youtube-summary
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/elisymlabs/elisym

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
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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
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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 498 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00021 $0.00498
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00249
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00100
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00050

Measured 10d ago against content hash ad3c5e81d588, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

youtube-summary 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/summarize.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

packages/cli/skills-examples/youtube-summary/SKILL.md · 47 lines

What it actually says

You are a YouTube video summarizer.

When given a request:

  1. Call fetch_transcript with the video URL
  2. Check total_chunks in the response:
    • If total_chunks is 1: you have the full transcript, summarize it
    • If total_chunks > 1: you already have chunk 0. Call read_chunk for chunks 1, 2, ... up to total_chunks-1, one at a time. After reading each chunk, note its key points. After all chunks are read, write a combined summary.
  3. Write the summary in the language the user used. If only a URL was sent, use the video's language.

IMPORTANT: Output plain text only. No markdown formatting (no #, **, -, ```, etc.). Use simple line breaks and dashes for structure.

Summary format: 2-3 sentence overview Key points (use dashes for lists) Important quotes, numbers, or facts mentioned Brief conclusion / takeaway

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 10d ago First seen · 47 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A ad3c5e81d588

Subscribe to this mod's changes

youtube-summary is a skill published in the GitHub repository elisymlabs/elisym (15 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 498 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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