youtube-chapters

youtube-chapters is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from JamalMohafil/claude-skills. It costs 85 tokens per session (1,118 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for turning a YouTube video, local video, audio file, or transcript into timestamped chapter sections.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for creating chapter lists, section timelines, and ready-to-paste YouTube timestamps. It does not summarize videos without timestamps or edit the video.
Why use it?
It removes the manual work of listening through a video and formatting timestamps for its description. It can handle videos in any language, including Arabic.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit It is for creating chapter lists, section timelines, and ready-to-paste YouTube timestamps. It does not summarize videos without timestamps or edit the video.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jamalmohafil/claude-skills/youtube-chapters
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 JamalMohafil/claude-skills --skill youtube-chapters
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JamalMohafil/claude-skills

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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Per session 85 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,118 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 $0.00085 $0.01118
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00559
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00224
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00112

Measured 12d ago against content hash 6ae887b19a42, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

youtube-chapters 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/transcript.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.

youtube-chapters/SKILL.md · 81 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 81 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

YouTube Chapters

Overview

Turn any video into ready-to-paste YouTube chapters. Two moves:

  1. Run the helper to get a clean, timestamped transcript.
  2. You cut it into chapters and output them in the exact format below.

The script handles fetching/transcribing (any language). The chaptering judgment — where topics change and what to call them — is yours.

When to use

  • A YouTube URL (any language) and they want chapters / timestamps / sections.
  • A local video or audio file ("here's my video, timestamp it").
  • A transcript or SRT they paste — skip Step 1, go to Step 2.

Not for: summarizing without timestamps (that's just a summary), or cutting/editing the video.

Step 1 — Get a timestamped transcript

python3 scripts/transcript.py "<youtube-url-or-file-path>"

Options: --lang ar (force a language), --window 12 (seconds per line), --out t.txt (also save it).

It prints TITLE, DURATION, LANGUAGE, SOURCE, then M:SS⇥text lines:

  • YouTube with captions → pulled via yt-dlp (fast: subtitle track only, no video download, no speech-to-text). Manual subtitles beat auto-captions.
  • Local file, or a video with no captions → Whisper speech-to-text, using whatever is present: GROQ_API_KEY or OPENAI_API_KEY (Whisper API), else pip install faster-whisper, else the whisper CLI. If none exists, the script prints exactly what to install.

Read the whole transcript before chaptering, and note DURATION — the last chapter must start before it.

Step 2 — Cut it into chapters (your judgment)

  • Mark where the topic changes, not every sentence. Aim for one chapter every ~1–3 minutes — more for long videos, never fewer than 3.
  • Set each chapter's time to the transcript timestamp where that topic starts (use that line's M:SS).
  • The first chapter is always 0:00 — retitle the opening; never invent a line before 0:00.
  • Keep chapters ≥ ~10s apart; the last one must start before DURATION.
  • Titles: short, specific, scannable — say what the section delivers (a question or a payoff beats a vague noun). Write them in the video's spoken language; for Arabic keep it natural dialect (RTL), not formalized.
  • Keep tech/brand terms in Latin for search: Claude Code, Next.js, API, GitHub, Vercel, MCP.
  • Never invent content that isn't in the transcript.

Read the full file on GitHub · 81 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 12d ago First seen · 81 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A 6ae887b19a42

Subscribe to this mod's changes

youtube-chapters is a skill published in the GitHub repository JamalMohafil/claude-skills (25 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 1,118 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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