notebooklm

notebooklm is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Mathews-Tom/armory. It costs 71 tokens per session (3,520 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line connection to Google NotebookLM, a research workspace that answers questions from sources you provide. It can work with sources such as web pages, YouTube videos, PDFs, audio, video, and images.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create notebooks, collect sources, chat with their contents, and generate podcasts, videos, infographics, slides, quizzes, flashcards, or mind maps.
Why use it?
It lets scripts or coding agents create notebooks, add reference material, ask questions, and generate study or presentation materials without relying only on the web interface.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the armory plugin — 85 skills, 1 agent shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mathews-tom/armory/notebooklm
Any agent
npx skills add Mathews-Tom/armory --skill notebooklm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Mathews-Tom/armory

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install armory, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 85 skills, 1 agent.

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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,520 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00071 $0.03520
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01760
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00704
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00352

Measured 6d ago against content hash 9cc1c71f6738, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, 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 6d 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 · 319 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 319 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

NotebookLM Automation

Complete programmatic access to Google NotebookLM — including capabilities not exposed in the web UI. Create notebooks, add sources (URLs, YouTube, PDFs, audio, video, images), chat with content, generate all artifact types, and download results in multiple formats.

Prerequisites

Installation

uv tool install notebooklm-py

Authentication (one-time)

notebooklm login          # Opens browser for Google OAuth
notebooklm list           # Verify authentication works

If commands fail with auth errors, re-run notebooklm login.

Verify Setup

notebooklm --version
notebooklm status         # Shows "Authenticated as: email@..."
notebooklm list --json    # Should return valid JSON

CI/CD and Parallel Agents

Variable Purpose
NOTEBOOKLM_HOME Custom config directory (default: ~/.notebooklm)
NOTEBOOKLM_AUTH_JSON Inline auth JSON — no file writes needed

Parallel agents: The CLI stores notebook context in ~/.notebooklm/context.json. Multiple concurrent agents using notebooklm use overwrite each other's context. Use explicit -n <notebook_id> or --notebook <notebook_id> flags instead, or set unique NOTEBOOKLM_HOME per agent.

Quick Reference

Task Command
Authenticate notebooklm login
Diagnose auth notebooklm auth check --test
List notebooks notebooklm list
Create notebook notebooklm create "Title"
Set context notebooklm use <notebook_id>
Show context notebooklm status
Add URL source notebooklm source add "https://..."
Add file notebooklm source add ./file.pdf
Add YouTube notebooklm source add "https://youtube.com/..."
List sources notebooklm source list
Wait for source notebooklm source wait <source_id>
Web research (fast) notebooklm source add-research "query"
Web research (deep) notebooklm source add-research "query" --mode deep --no-wait
Check research status notebooklm research status
Wait for research notebooklm research wait --import-all
Chat notebooklm ask "question"
Chat (new conversation) notebooklm ask "question" --new
Chat (specific sources) notebooklm ask "question" -s src_id1 -s src_id2
Chat (with references) notebooklm ask "question" --json
Get source fulltext notebooklm source fulltext <source_id>
Get source guide notebooklm source guide <source_id>
Generate podcast notebooklm generate audio "instructions"
Generate video notebooklm generate video "instructions"
Generate quiz notebooklm generate quiz
Generate infographic notebooklm generate infographic
Generate slide deck notebooklm generate slide-deck
Generate report notebooklm generate report
Generate mind map notebooklm generate mind-map
Generate data table notebooklm generate data-table "description"
Generate flashcards notebooklm generate flashcards
Check artifact status notebooklm artifact list
Wait for completion notebooklm artifact wait <artifact_id>
Download audio notebooklm download audio ./output.mp3
Download video notebooklm download video ./output.mp4
Download report notebooklm download report ./report.md
Download mind map notebooklm download mind-map ./map.json
Download data table notebooklm download data-table ./data.csv
Download quiz notebooklm download quiz quiz.json
Download quiz (markdown) notebooklm download quiz --format markdown quiz.md
Download flashcards notebooklm download flashcards cards.json
Download infographic notebooklm download infographic ./infographic.png
Download slide deck notebooklm download slide-deck ./slides.pdf
List languages notebooklm language list
Set language notebooklm language set zh_Hans

Read the full file on GitHub · 319 lines

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. 6d ago First seen · 319 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 9cc1c71f6738

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notebooklm is a skill published in the GitHub repository Mathews-Tom/armory (316 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 3,520 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.

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