course-digest

course-digest is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from melodic-software/claude-code-plugins. It costs 173 tokens per session (4,409 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A course-analysis tool that watches online video courses, reads their transcripts and selected frames, and turns them into recommendations for a software repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to digest a course, understand its main lessons, and identify practical changes or techniques worth applying in a repository.
Why use it?
It saves developers from watching a long course and manually deciding which ideas apply to their codebase.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the knowledge plugin — 5 skills 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/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins/course-digest
Any agent
npx skills add melodic-software/claude-code-plugins --skill course-digest
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install knowledge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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.

agentmods badge for course-digest

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins/course-digest"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins/course-digest.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 173 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,409 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00173 $0.04409
Opus 5 $0.00086 $0.02204
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.00882
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00441

Measured yesterday against content hash 6e024eca245d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

course-digest scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 yesterday.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 42 executable files (extraction/adapters/adapter-contract.js, extraction/adapters/adapter-contract.test.js, extraction/adapters/auth-session.js, …), 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

3. **ffmpeg**, required for video frame extraction (scene detection, interval capture). Check: `ffmpeg -version`. Install: `winget install Gyan.FFmpeg` (Windows), `brew install ffmpeg` (macOS), `sudo apt install ffmpeg`
plugins/knowledge/skills/course-digest/SKILL.md · 235 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 235 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pre-computed context

course-extraction deps: !node -e "const fs=require('fs'),path=require('path'),p=process.env.CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA;process.stdout.write(p&&fs.existsSync(path.join(p,'node_modules','@melodic','video-digestion'))?'installed':'MISSING - run setup-deps.mjs (see Prerequisites)')" Playwright Chromium: !node -e "const fs=require('fs'),path=require('path');const b=process.env.PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSERS_PATH||(process.env.CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA&&path.join(process.env.CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA,'ms-playwright'));const ok=b&&fs.existsSync(b)&&fs.readdirSync(b).some(n=>n.startsWith('chromium'));process.stdout.write(ok?'installed':'MISSING - run setup-deps.mjs (see Prerequisites)')" ffmpeg: !command -v ffmpeg >/dev/null 2>&1 && { ffmpeg -version 2>/dev/null | head -1; :; } || echo "MISSING — install ffmpeg (see Prerequisites)" ImageMagick: !command -v magick >/dev/null 2>&1 && { magick -version 2>/dev/null | head -1; :; } || echo "MISSING — install ImageMagick 7 (see Prerequisites)"

Course Digest

Transform online video courses into structured knowledge and actionable repo recommendations, without watching a single video.

How it works

Uses browser automation (claude-in-chrome) to navigate course platforms, extract transcripts, capture screenshots of code/slides, and collect downloadable resources. Synthesizes raw content into analysis focused on what applies to the current repository.

Where this skill says "deeper research," use whatever external-research capability your project provides. Repo conventions override course claims. Surface convention conflicts explicitly; never silently adopt a course's shortcut over team rules.

Emit checklist

For any course digest run (multi-phase content acquisition + distillation + repo-applicability analysis), copy templates/checklist.md into .work/<slug>/course-digest-checklist.md. Tick each phase as completed.

This skill's .work/ root is formally carved out of the marketplace topic-docs convention (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins/main/docs/conventions/topic-docs/README.md): the work root resolves through the knowledge plugin's own library_dir seam, not the concern file's memory_dir; slug conformance is form-only (kebab-case [a-z0-9-], ≤ 40 chars, Windows-reserved base names take an -x suffix); and nested <epic>/<slug>/ sub-slices are sanctioned. The root still self-ignores (a .gitignore containing *) and is never committed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 235 lines

Files

What ships with it

56 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. yesterday First seen · 235 lines · 173 tokens per session scan B 6e024eca245d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

course-digest is a skill published in the GitHub repository melodic-software/claude-code-plugins (15 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 173 tokens to every session and 4,409 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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