notebooklm-research

notebooklm-research is a skill for Claude Code from medy-gribkov/arcana. It costs 53 tokens per session (1,202 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A browser-automation guide for Google NotebookLM, a research workspace that can answer questions about supplied sources. It uses Playwright to add sources and generate research materials such as reports, slides, quizzes, and mind maps.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating notebooks, adding URLs, PDFs, YouTube videos, or text, asking source-based questions with citations, and generating study or research outputs.
Why use it?
NotebookLM has no public API, so this provides a way to automate it through an already authenticated Chrome browser.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Creating notebooks, adding URLs, PDFs, YouTube videos, or text, asking source-based questions with citations, and generating study or research outputs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/medy-gribkov/arcana/notebooklm-research
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 medy-gribkov/arcana --skill notebooklm-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/medy-gribkov/arcana

Made for: Claude Code.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin notebooklm-research/plugin install notebooklm-research after adding the marketplace above.

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,202 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 $0.00053 $0.01202
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00601
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00240
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00120

Measured 10d ago against content hash 92e326328e11, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

notebooklm-research 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/notebooklm_client.py, scripts/setup_chrome.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-research/SKILL.md · 117 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 117 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

NotebookLM Research Automation

Turn Claude Code into a research agent by automating Google NotebookLM. NotebookLM has no public API. This skill uses Playwright to control a real Chrome browser via CDP (Chrome DevTools Protocol). All commands output JSON to stdout.

Prerequisites

One-time setup (2 minutes):

pip install playwright && playwright install chromium
python scripts/setup_chrome.py
# Log in to Google in the Chrome window that opens
python scripts/notebooklm_client.py status  # Verify: "authenticated": true

See references/authentication.md for detailed setup and troubleshooting.

Session Management

BAD: Launching Chromium directly from Playwright. Gets detected as a bot, cannot authenticate with Google.

browser = await playwright.chromium.launch()
page = await browser.new_page()
await page.goto("https://notebooklm.google.com")  # Blocked or login fails

GOOD: Connecting to a real Chrome instance via CDP with a persistent profile.

browser = await playwright.chromium.connect_over_cdp("http://localhost:9222")
context = browser.contexts[0]  # Reuse authenticated session
page = context.pages[0]        # Already on NotebookLM

Interaction Speed

BAD: Instant typing and clicks. Triggers anti-bot detection, actions may be ignored.

await page.fill("textarea", "full text instantly")
await page.click("button")

GOOD: Human-like delays. Random 25-75ms per character, 100-300ms pre-click pause.

for char in question:
    await element.type(char, delay=random.uniform(25, 75))
await asyncio.sleep(random.uniform(0.1, 0.3))
await page.click("button")

Command Reference

Always verify connection first with status. All commands return JSON.

Command Example Purpose
status python scripts/notebooklm_client.py status Check Chrome + auth
list python scripts/notebooklm_client.py list List all notebooks
create python scripts/notebooklm_client.py create "Topic" Create notebook
add-source ...add-source --notebook "Topic" --url "https://..." Add URL source
add-source ...add-source --notebook "Topic" --file "/path/to.pdf" Add file source
add-source ...add-source --notebook "Topic" --youtube "https://..." Add YouTube source
add-source ...add-source --notebook "Topic" --text "raw content" Add text source
query ...query --notebook "Topic" --question "Key findings?" Query with citations
generate ...generate --notebook "Topic" --type slides Generate artifact
generate ...generate --notebook "Topic" --type infographic --instructions "Focus on stats" Generate with instructions

Read the full file on GitHub · 117 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files 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. 10d ago First seen · 117 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 92e326328e11

Subscribe to this mod's changes

notebooklm-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository medy-gribkov/arcana (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 1,202 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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