transcript-ingestion

transcript-ingestion is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from LuuOW/meridian-mcp. It costs 45 tokens per session (599 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for collecting and cleaning spoken content from videos, podcasts, captions, show notes, and transcript pages.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for extracting transcripts from YouTube and podcast sources, removing page clutter and timestamps, and preparing the text for retrieval or persona-based systems.
Why use it?
It helps turn messy web pages and captions into ordered text that can be searched or used for grounded answers.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is for extracting transcripts from YouTube and podcast sources, removing page clutter and timestamps, and preparing the text for retrieval or persona-based systems.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/luuow/meridian-mcp/transcript-ingestion
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add LuuOW/meridian-mcp --skill transcript-ingestion
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LuuOW/meridian-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 599 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 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 $0.00045 $0.00599
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00300
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00120
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00060

Measured 7d ago against content hash bf7dca84f94d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

transcript-ingestion 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 7d 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/transcript-ingestion/SKILL.md · 92 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

transcript-ingestion

Use this when the task depends on spoken-source fidelity: YouTube episodes, podcast interviews, show transcripts, or transcript-like notes.

Goal

Turn noisy video or podcast pages into transcript-grade text that is usable for retrieval and persona synthesis.

Preferred Order

  1. Native captions/transcript endpoints for video pages
  2. Transcript text exposed in page HTML or markdown
  3. Show notes with transcript-like conversational blocks
  4. Cleaned descriptive page text only as fallback

Workflow

  1. Classify the source:

    • video_page
    • youtube_channel
    • podcast_page
    • podcast_landing
    • generic web
  2. For video_page:

    • fetch page HTML
    • extract player response metadata
    • locate caption tracks
    • prefer English human captions, then English auto-captions
    • parse json3 or XML transcript payloads
  3. For podcast or transcript-like pages:

    • search for headings like Transcript, Episode transcript, Show transcript, Show notes
    • capture timestamped lines
    • strip timestamps only after preserving ordering
  4. Normalize:

    • remove UI chrome
    • remove timestamps when compiling plain text
    • collapse whitespace
    • preserve speaker turns when available

Keep

  • opening thesis
  • repeated mental models
  • self-descriptions
  • practical advice
  • tradeoffs and caveats
  • examples and stories that reveal operating style

Remove

  • player controls
  • likes/views/share chrome
  • subscription prompts
  • embed/widget boilerplate
  • unrelated recommendations

Weighting Rules

  • transcript text should outrank generic page text
  • direct episode transcripts should outrank channel pages
  • self-authored or self-spoken material should outrank testimonials
  • short fragments like Watch full video are not transcripts

Validation

A transcript pass is acceptable when:

  • it contains coherent clauses, not just labels
  • it materially improves over page summary text
  • it is tied to a specific episode or identifiable source

Read the full file on GitHub · 92 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. 7d ago First seen · 92 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A bf7dca84f94d

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transcript-ingestion is a skill published in the GitHub repository LuuOW/meridian-mcp (0 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 599 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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