notebooklm-create

notebooklm-create is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills. It costs 237 tokens per session (2,962 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for building a complete Google NotebookLM research notebook from a topic, including sources, generated materials, and reusable questions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research a topic, load sources into NotebookLM, create study or briefing materials, and prepare prompts for later chats.
Why use it?
It organizes the many steps and known source-loading issues involved in creating a research notebook.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to research a topic, load sources into NotebookLM, create study or briefing materials, and prepare prompts for later chats.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 237 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,962 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 $0.00237 $0.02962
Opus 5 $0.00118 $0.01481
Sonnet 5 $0.00047 $0.00592
Haiku 4.5 $0.00024 $0.00296

Measured 9d ago against content hash b86a35bce397, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

notebooklm-create 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/adapt_prompts.py, scripts/add_urls_sequential.py, scripts/build_full_studio.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.

skills/notebooklm-create/SKILL.md · 211 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 211 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

notebooklm-create

End-to-end workflow for building a complete NotebookLM topic notebook: deep research, source loading, full Studio, curated prompts. Orchestrates the notebooklm-rpc MCP tools with domain-specific gotcha handling encoded.

Relationship to notebooklm-skill

  • notebooklm-skill = low-level API reference (notebooklm-py CLI)
  • This skill (notebooklm-create) = high-level workflow orchestration using the notebooklm-rpc MCP tools available in this session

If the user just wants to call a single API (e.g., "list my notebooks"), use notebooklm-skill or the MCP tool directly. If they want to BUILD a research notebook from a topic, use this skill.

Why this workflow exists

Building a rich NotebookLM notebook for a topic has repeatable shape but is strewn with gotchas that cost real time if rediscovered:

  • Some domains silently refuse NotebookLM's URL fetcher (Medium, Quora)
  • URL adds cascade-fail when issued in parallel — must be sequential
  • llms.txt URLs need the trailing .md stripped before adding
  • Studio artifacts split into synchronous (mind map, reports, flashcards, quiz, data table) and async (audio, video, infographic, slide deck) with different polling behavior
  • The Studio API classifies quiz artifacts as type: flashcards once generated (title disambiguates)
  • confirm=True is mandatory on every Studio creation tool AND requires explicit user approval

This skill encodes all of that so future runs don't relearn it.

Workflow — the 7 phases

Run these in order. Each phase has a clear hand-off to the next.

Phase 1 — Capture intent

Ask or infer:

  1. What's the topic? (e.g., "cmux", "ArgoCD image updater", "Azure landing zones")
  2. Any seed URLs the user already wants included (videos, blog posts, GitHub repos)?
  3. Which forums to cover? Defaults: Reddit, Hacker News, GitHub Discussions. Optional: Discord (captured as text — not URL-indexable), Quora (usually empty for technical topics; confirm via research)
  4. Target notebook title — default convention: {topic} :: docs (matches user's existing naming pattern visible via notebook_list)
  5. Does the user want the full Studio (all 10 artifacts) or selective?

Read the full file on GitHub · 211 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 · 211 lines · 237 tokens per session scan A b86a35bce397

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notebooklm-create is a skill published in the GitHub repository julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills (10 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 237 tokens to every session and 2,962 once invoked, about $0.0012 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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