youtube-watcher

youtube-watcher is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from MerkyorLynn/Lynn. It costs 34 tokens per session (395 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A utility for downloading transcripts from YouTube videos, which are videos hosted on Google's video platform.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps retrieve captions or automatically generated subtitles from a YouTube link. It cannot retrieve videos that have no subtitles.
Why use it?
It provides the spoken text needed to summarize a video, answer questions about it, or find specific information.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It helps retrieve captions or automatically generated subtitles from a YouTube link. It cannot retrieve videos that have no subtitles.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/merkyorlynn/lynn/youtube-watcher
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 MerkyorLynn/Lynn --skill youtube-watcher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MerkyorLynn/Lynn

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 395 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00034 $0.00395
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00198
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00079
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00040

Measured 11d ago against content hash 89b97c95ce71, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

youtube-watcher 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 11d ago.

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

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills2set/youtube-watcher/SKILL.md · 49 lines

What it actually says

YouTube Watcher

Fetch transcripts from YouTube videos to enable summarization, QA, and content extraction.

Usage

Get Transcript

Retrieve the text transcript of a video.

python3 {baseDir}/scripts/get_transcript.py "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"

Examples

Summarize a video:

  1. Get the transcript:
    python3 {baseDir}/scripts/get_transcript.py "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
    
  2. Read the output and summarize it for the user.

Find specific information:

  1. Get the transcript.
  2. Search the text for keywords or answer the user's question based on the content.

Notes

  • Requires yt-dlp to be installed and available in the PATH.
  • Works with videos that have closed captions (CC) or auto-generated subtitles.
  • If a video has no subtitles, the script will fail with an error message.
Files

What ships with it

2 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. 11d ago First seen · 49 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 89b97c95ce71

Subscribe to this mod's changes

youtube-watcher is a skill published in the GitHub repository MerkyorLynn/Lynn (43 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 395 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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