solo-index-youtube

solo-index-youtube is a skill for Claude Code from fortunto2/solo-factory. It costs 34 tokens per session (1,273 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for adding YouTube videos and transcripts to a searchable index. A transcript is the written version of a video’s spoken content.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add a YouTube channel, refresh a video index, or index transcripts for searchable YouTube content.
Why use it?
It makes information in selected YouTube channels easier to find by text search. This avoids having to remember which video contains a particular discussion.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; positional $N argument; built for openclaw.

Part of the solo plugin — 45 skills, 2 commands, 3 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to add a YouTube channel, refresh a video index, or index transcripts for searchable YouTube content.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fortunto2/solo-factory/index-youtube
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add fortunto2/solo-factory --skill index-youtube
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fortunto2/solo-factory

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install solo, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 45 skills, 2 commands, 3 agents, 3 hooks.

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,273 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 $0.00034 $0.01273
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00636
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00255
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00127

Measured 12d ago against content hash e27e7437e321, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

solo-index-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 12d 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/index-youtube/SKILL.md · 156 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 156 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/index-youtube

Index YouTube video transcripts into a searchable knowledge base. Supports two modes depending on available tools.

Prerequisites

Check that yt-dlp is available:

which yt-dlp || echo "MISSING: install yt-dlp (brew install yt-dlp / pip install yt-dlp / pipx install yt-dlp)"

Arguments

Parse $ARGUMENTS for channel handles or "all":

  • If empty or "all": index all channels (from config or ask user)
  • If one or more handles: index only those channels (e.g., GregIsenberg ycombinator)
  • Optional flags: -n <limit> (max videos per channel, default 10), --dry-run (parse only)

Mode Detection

Check which mode is available:

Mode 1: With solograph MCP (recommended)

If MCP tools source_search, source_list, source_tags are available, use solograph for indexing and search.

Setup (if not yet installed):

# Install solograph
pip install solograph
# or
uvx solograph

Indexing via solograph CLI:

# Single channel
solograph-cli index-youtube -c GregIsenberg -n 10

# Multiple channels
solograph-cli index-youtube -c GregIsenberg -c ycombinator -n 10

# All channels (from channels.yaml in solograph config)
solograph-cli index-youtube -n 10

# Dry run (parse only, no DB writes)
solograph-cli index-youtube --dry-run

If solograph-cli is not on PATH, try:

uvx solograph-cli index-youtube -c <handle> -n 10

Verification via MCP:

  • source_list — check that youtube source appears
  • source_search("startup idea", source="youtube") — test semantic search
  • source_tags — see auto-detected topics from transcripts
  • source_related(video_id) — find related videos by tags

Mode 2: Without MCP (standalone fallback)

If solograph MCP tools are NOT available, use yt-dlp directly to download transcripts and analyze them.

Step 1: Download video list

# Get recent video URLs from a channel
yt-dlp --flat-playlist --print url "https://www.youtube.com/@GregIsenberg/videos" | head -n 10

Read the full file on GitHub · 156 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. 12d ago First seen · 156 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A e27e7437e321

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solo-index-youtube is a skill published in the GitHub repository fortunto2/solo-factory (18 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 1,273 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 2026-08-30.