course-digest

course-digest is a skill for Claude Code from melodic-software/claude-code-plugins. It costs 83 tokens per session (4,902 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 Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the knowledge plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to digest a course, understand its main lessons, and identify practical changes or techniques worth applying in a repository.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add melodic-software/claude-code-plugins
Claude Code
/plugin install knowledge

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

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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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Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,902 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00083 $0.04902
Opus 5.5 $0.00033 $0.01961
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00980
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00490

Measured 3d ago against content hash 6d0368e31379, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 3d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 51 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 · 273 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 273 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Arguments. [extract|analyze|status|resume|continue] [url|slug]. e.g., /knowledge:course-digest , /knowledge:course-digest extract , /knowledge:course-digest resume , /knowledge:course-digest status

Pre-computed context

printf 'course-extraction deps: '; node -e "const fs=require('fs'),path=require('path'),p=process.argv[1];console.log(p&&fs.existsSync(path.join(p,'node_modules','@melodic','video-digestion'))?'installed':'MISSING - run setup-deps.mjs (see Prerequisites)')" "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA}" 2>/dev/null || echo "MISSING - node not found (see Prerequisites)"
printf 'Playwright Chromium: '; node -e "const fs=require('fs'),path=require('path');const b=process.env.PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSERS_PATH||(process.argv[1]&&path.join(process.argv[1],'ms-playwright'));const ok=b&&fs.existsSync(b)&&fs.readdirSync(b).some(n=>n.startsWith('chromium'));console.log(ok?'installed':'MISSING - run setup-deps.mjs (see Prerequisites)')" "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA}" 2>/dev/null || echo "MISSING - node not found (see Prerequisites)"
printf 'ffmpeg: '; command -v ffmpeg >/dev/null 2>&1 && ffmpeg -version 2>/dev/null | head -1 || command -v ffmpeg >/dev/null 2>&1 || echo "MISSING — install ffmpeg (see Prerequisites)"
printf 'ImageMagick: '; command -v magick >/dev/null 2>&1 && magick -version 2>/dev/null | head -1 || command -v magick >/dev/null 2>&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.

Read the full file on GitHub · 273 lines

Files

What ships with it

60 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.

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  10. 23d ago First seen · 237 lines · 84 tokens per session scan B 7460ff05eb34

Subscribe to this mod's changes

course-digest is a skill published in the GitHub repository melodic-software/claude-code-plugins (26 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 4,902 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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