youtube-transcribe

youtube-transcribe is a skill for Claude Code from magnusrodseth/dotfiles. It costs 125 tokens per session (1,722 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A tool for turning YouTube videos into written transcripts and extracting their main information. It can also retrieve verified screenshots when the video explains something visually.

In plain words
What is it for?
Transcribing, summarising, and extracting lessons from a YouTube video, including selected video frames.
Why use it?
It avoids having to watch a whole video repeatedly to find its wording, key points, or visual explanations.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Transcribing, summarising, and extracting lessons from a YouTube video, including selected video frames.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/magnusrodseth/dotfiles/youtube-transcribe
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 magnusrodseth/dotfiles --skill youtube-transcribe
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/magnusrodseth/dotfiles

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 125 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,722 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 $0.00125 $0.01722
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.00861
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00344
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00172

Measured 12d ago against content hash 1ec54c2bca11, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

youtube-transcribe 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 12d ago.

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

.claude/skills/youtube-transcribe/SKILL.md · 124 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

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 12d ago First seen · 124 lines · 125 tokens per session scan A 1ec54c2bca11

Subscribe to this mod's changes

youtube-transcribe is a skill published in the GitHub repository magnusrodseth/dotfiles (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), with no licence file. It adds 125 tokens to every session and 1,722 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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