summarizer

A workflow for summarizing a YouTube video or podcast episode and saving the result as a structured NotePlan note.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a YouTube link should be summarized and saved under the appropriate podcast or video resources folder.
Why use it?
It turns a video or episode into a searchable practical note without requiring manual transcription and filing.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jaansokk/cursor_tools/summarizer
Any agent
npx skills add jaansokk/cursor_tools --skill summarizer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jaansokk/cursor_tools

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 152 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,280 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00152 $0.01280
Opus 5 $0.00076 $0.00640
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00256
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00128

Measured 2d ago against content hash 51564d504f7e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

summarizer scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 2d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -s "https://www.youtube.com/oembed?url=VIDEO_URL&format=json"
.claude/skills/summarizer/SKILL.md · 121 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Summarizer — YouTube / Podcast → NotePlan

Takes a YouTube video URL, fetches the transcript, writes a practical summary, and saves it as a note in NotePlan under the right channel/creator subfolder.

Workflow

1. Get video metadata

Fetch the video title and channel name using the YouTube oEmbed API:

curl -s "https://www.youtube.com/oembed?url=VIDEO_URL&format=json"

This returns JSON with title and author_name. Extract both — you need them for the note heading and folder name.

If oEmbed fails (private video, age-restricted), fall back to asking the user for the title and channel.

2. Fetch the transcript

Use the bundled yt-transcript script:

python ~/.claude/skills/yt-transcript/scripts/yt_transcript.py "VIDEO_URL"

For Estonian videos, add et as the second argument.

3. Write the summary

Read the full transcript and write a summary following these rules:

Length: Up to 350 words. If the video contains specific scripts, frameworks, step-by-step processes, or concrete examples that lose their value when compressed, go longer — practical detail beats arbitrary brevity.

What to include:

  • Core insight — the central thesis or main argument in 1-3 sentences
  • Core content, practical tips and frameworks — actionable advice, systems, scripts, checklists. This is the most important part. Preserve specificity — if the speaker says "ask this exact question" or "use this technique" include it. Format this as topic (### heading) and bullets.
  • Key mistakes / anti-patterns — what NOT to do, if covered
  • Key takeaway — a distilled closing thought

What to skip:

  • Sponsor segments, self-promotion, channel plugs
  • Repetitive examples that make the same point
  • Vague motivational filler ("you've got this!", "believe in yourself")
  • Biographical context about the speaker unless it's directly relevant to credibility

Tone: Match the user's existing notes — structured, scannable, practical. Use headers, bullets, bold for key terms. Write like you're capturing a playbook, not summarizing an article.

Read the full file on GitHub · 121 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. 2d ago First seen · 121 lines · 152 tokens per session scan A 51564d504f7e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

summarizer is a skill published in the GitHub repository jaansokk/cursor_tools (1 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 152 tokens to every session and 1,280 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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