youtube-transcript-mcp: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/youtube-transcript-cli/SKILL.md

youtube-transcript-cli is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from lucasliet/youtube-transcript-mcp. It costs 142 tokens per session (1,487 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A command-line tool for obtaining transcripts from YouTube videos. A transcript is the written version of spoken video content.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to read, summarise, analyse, or extract information from a YouTube video when no transcript tool is available.
Why use it?
It avoids manually listening through a video to find or copy what was said.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is lucasliet/youtube-transcript-mcp's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on youtube-transcript-mcp itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything youtube-transcript-mcp configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to lucasliet/youtube-transcript-mcp. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lucasliet/youtube-transcript-mcp/main/.agents/skills/youtube-transcript-cli/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lucasliet/youtube-transcript-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 142 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,487 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.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00142 $0.01487
Opus 5.5 $0.00057 $0.00595
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00028 $0.00297
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00149

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 18781920ae63, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

youtube-transcript-cli 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 2mo 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.

.agents/skills/youtube-transcript-cli/SKILL.md · 165 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 2mo ago First seen · 165 lines · 142 tokens per session scan A 18781920ae63

Subscribe to this mod's changes

youtube-transcript-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository lucasliet/youtube-transcript-mcp (4 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 142 tokens to every session and 1,487 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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