yt-pulse

yt-pulse is a skill for Claude Code from mishahanin/heading-os. It costs 145 tokens per session (3,328 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A skill that searches YouTube for recent videos on a chosen topic, ranks them by engagement and relevance, and can extract and analyse the transcript of a leading video. YouTube is a video-sharing website.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to monitor topics such as AI, cybersecurity, markets, or sailing and produce a written intelligence brief.
Why use it?
It reduces the time needed to scan many videos and identify the discussions most worth reviewing.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python scripts/sanitize-text.py "$PULSE_DIR/yt-pulse-brief.html" --scan.

Good fit Use it to monitor topics such as AI, cybersecurity, markets, or sailing and produce a written intelligence brief.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mishahanin/heading-os
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mishahanin/heading-os/yt-pulse

Made for: Claude Code.

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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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 145 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,328 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 22
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
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 $0.00145 $0.03328
Opus 5 $0.00072 $0.01664
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00666
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00333

Measured 9d ago against content hash 286af1d4e0ca, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

yt-pulse scanned grade A 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 9d ago.

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

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

python -c "import urllib.request, json; r = urllib.request.urlopen('https://api.ipify.org?format=json', timeout=5); print(json.loads(r.read().decode())['ip'])"
.claude/skills/yt-pulse/SKILL.md · 313 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 313 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

YT Pulse - YouTube Intelligence Scanner

Scan YouTube for trending content in any domain and identify what creators are talking about. Find the best video worth watching, and deliver an intelligence brief with 31C business relevance.

Variables

query: [required] Domain or topic to scan (e.g., "AI agents", "deep packet inspection", "sailing navigation", "cybersecurity threats 2026")

timeframe: [optional] 24h | 72h (default) | 7d | 30d

depth: [optional] quick (search + clustering only) | full (default, includes transcript analysis)


Instructions

Before executing, read:

  • context/strategy.md - Strategic priorities for relevance assessment
  • context/business-info.md - ODUN.ONE capabilities
  • context/pipeline.md - Active deals for relevance scoring

Configuration

Per-channel cap, browser cookie sourcing (default: Brave ClaudeCode profile via yt-dlp cookiesfrombrowser — Brave is cross-platform and yt-dlp-native), and optional residential proxy fallback - see references/configuration.md. Key default: --per-channel-cap 3 (v1.3 behaviour change; pass 0 to restore legacy uncapped ranking).


Pre-flight: VPN Check (MANDATORY, runs before Phase 0)

Apply reference/vpn-preflight.md before any network operation in this skill. In short:

  1. Run a silent exit-IP check:

    python -c "import urllib.request, json; r = urllib.request.urlopen('https://api.ipify.org?format=json', timeout=5); print(json.loads(r.read().decode())['ip'])"
    
  2. Geolocate via https://ipinfo.io/<ip>/json -- look at the org field.

  3. Present the combined gate with AskUserQuestion:

    Pre-flight check before /yt-pulse. Current exit: <IP> (<ORG>, <COUNTRY>).

    1. VPN: Confirm you are connected to Proton VPN (Amsterdam verified working) or a residential proxy. If you are on Mullvad or bare ISP, the transcript step will likely fall back to web search.
    2. Browser cookies: For the authenticated path, close the cookie-source browser (Brave by default) before proceeding. Chromium-family browsers lock their cookie SQLite DB on Windows while running, blocking yt-dlp from reading the ClaudeCode profile's YouTube session. Not fatal: the skill falls back to unauthenticated yt-dlp when locked. But closing it briefly enables the authenticated path and reduces bot-detection.

Read the full file on GitHub · 313 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 9d ago First seen · 313 lines · 145 tokens per session scan A 286af1d4e0ca

Subscribe to this mod's changes

yt-pulse is a skill published in the GitHub repository mishahanin/heading-os (11 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 145 tokens to every session and 3,328 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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