notebooklm

notebooklm is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills. It costs 150 tokens per session (2,380 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A programmatic connection to Google NotebookLM, a Google tool that works with source material such as documents, websites, videos, and PDFs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create notebooks, add sources, and generate items such as audio summaries, videos, slides, quizzes, flashcards, reports, and mind maps.
Why use it?
It lets you prepare and use NotebookLM content from commands or code instead of doing every step in its web interface.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is for f in ./papers/*.pdf; do notebooklm source add "$f"; done.

Good fit Use it to create notebooks, add sources, and generate items such as audio summaries, videos, slides, quizzes, flashcards, reports, and mind maps.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills/notebooklm

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 150 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,380 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Rogue Agent · line 4
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
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 $0.00150 $0.02380
Opus 5 $0.00075 $0.01190
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00476
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00238

Measured 9d ago against content hash 5bd3ceb04c9c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

notebooklm 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 9d 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/notebooklm/SKILL.md · 291 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 291 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

NotebookLM Automation

Unofficial Python CLI and API for Google NotebookLM (notebooklm-py). Provides full programmatic access including capabilities the web UI doesn't expose.

Prerequisites

  • Python 3.10+
  • Google account with NotebookLM access
  • One-time browser login via Playwright

Installation

# Install with browser login support
pip install "notebooklm-py[browser]"
playwright install chromium

# Linux only: also run
playwright install-deps chromium

Authentication

First-time setup requires browser login:

notebooklm login
# Opens Chromium → sign into Google → press Enter when done
# Session saved to ~/.notebooklm/storage_state.json

Check auth status: notebooklm auth check --test

For headless/CI environments, copy storage_state.json from a local machine or set NOTEBOOKLM_AUTH_JSON env var.

Environment Variables

Variable Description Default
NOTEBOOKLM_HOME Config directory ~/.notebooklm
NOTEBOOKLM_AUTH_JSON Inline auth JSON (CI/CD)
NOTEBOOKLM_LOG_LEVEL DEBUG/INFO/WARNING/ERROR WARNING
NOTEBOOKLM_DEBUG_RPC Enable RPC debug (1) false

Core Workflow

The typical workflow is: create notebook → add sources → generate content → download.

1. Notebook Management

notebooklm create "My Research"       # Create notebook
notebooklm list                        # List all notebooks
notebooklm use <id>                    # Set active notebook (supports partial ID)
notebooklm summary                     # AI summary of current notebook
notebooklm rename "New Title"          # Rename
notebooklm delete <id>                 # Delete

2. Adding Sources

Sources are auto-detected by type:

notebooklm source add "https://example.com/article"          # URL
notebooklm source add "https://youtube.com/watch?v=..."       # YouTube
notebooklm source add ./document.pdf                           # File (PDF, MD, DOCX, TXT, audio, video, images)
notebooklm source add-drive <drive-file-id> "Title"           # Google Drive
notebooklm source add-research "climate policy" --mode deep --import-all  # Research agent

Read the full file on GitHub · 291 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. 9d ago First seen · 291 lines · 150 tokens per session scan A 5bd3ceb04c9c

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notebooklm is a skill published in the GitHub repository julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills (10 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 150 tokens to every session and 2,380 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-08-31.

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