youtube-content

youtube-content is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from john-data-chen/hermes-agent-backup. It costs 13 tokens per session (761 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of youtube-content, MIT.

A tool for getting transcripts from YouTube videos and turning them into summaries, chapters, discussion threads, or blog posts. A transcript is the written version of what is spoken in a video.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with YouTube links or video IDs to fetch transcripts, create timestamped text, summarize videos, or reformat them into written content.
Why use it?
It saves the work of watching and manually transcribing a video before reusing its content. It can also provide timestamps and try a requested language with fallbacks.

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/john-data-chen/hermes-agent-backup/youtube-content
Any agent
npx skills add john-data-chen/hermes-agent-backup --skill youtube-content
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/john-data-chen/hermes-agent-backup

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 13 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 761 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 91% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00013 $0.00761
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00380
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00152
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00076

Measured 5d ago against content hash 03cba418b10c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

youtube-content 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 5d ago.

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

Origin

This is a copy

91% identical to youtube-content — 17 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/media/youtube-content/SKILL.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

YouTube Content Tool

When to use

Use when the user shares a YouTube URL or video link, asks to summarize a video, requests a transcript, or wants to extract and reformat content from any YouTube video. Transforms transcripts into structured content (chapters, summaries, threads, blog posts).

Extract transcripts from YouTube videos and convert them into useful formats.

Setup

Use uv so the dependency is installed into the same Hermes-managed environment that runs the helper script:

uv pip install youtube-transcript-api

Helper Script

SKILL_DIR is the directory containing this SKILL.md file. The script accepts any standard YouTube URL format, short links (youtu.be), shorts, embeds, live links, or a raw 11-character video ID.

# JSON output with metadata
uv run python3 SKILL_DIR/scripts/fetch_transcript.py "https://youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"

# Plain text (good for piping into further processing)
uv run python3 SKILL_DIR/scripts/fetch_transcript.py "URL" --text-only

# With timestamps
uv run python3 SKILL_DIR/scripts/fetch_transcript.py "URL" --timestamps

# Specific language with fallback chain
uv run python3 SKILL_DIR/scripts/fetch_transcript.py "URL" --language tr,en

Output Formats

After fetching the transcript, format it based on what the user asks for:

  • Chapters: Group by topic shifts, output timestamped chapter list
  • Summary: Concise 5-10 sentence overview of the entire video
  • Chapter summaries: Chapters with a short paragraph summary for each
  • Thread: Twitter/X thread format — numbered posts, each under 280 chars
  • Blog post: Full article with title, sections, and key takeaways
  • Quotes: Notable quotes with timestamps

Example — Chapters Output

00:00 Introduction — host opens with the problem statement
03:45 Background — prior work and why existing solutions fall short
12:20 Core method — walkthrough of the proposed approach
24:10 Results — benchmark comparisons and key takeaways
31:55 Q&A — audience questions on scalability and next steps

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 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. 5d ago First seen · 77 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 03cba418b10c

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youtube-content is a skill published in the GitHub repository john-data-chen/hermes-agent-backup (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 761 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 91% identical to youtube-content, differing in 17 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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