youtube-research

youtube-research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from MKirovBG/scribefy-mcp. It costs 74 tokens per session (940 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for researching topics through YouTube videos using Scribefy's search, metadata, related-video, and transcript tools. It explains how to choose useful videos before extracting transcripts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find candidate videos, check their length and captions, extract selected transcripts, and combine timestamped findings.
Why use it?
It helps you spend transcript credits selectively and avoid extracting long or irrelevant videos. It also supports answers grounded in video content and timestamps.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to find candidate videos, check their length and captions, extract selected transcripts, and combine timestamped findings.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mkirovbg/scribefy-mcp/youtube-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 MKirovBG/scribefy-mcp --skill youtube-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MKirovBG/scribefy-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 940 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 $0.00074 $0.00940
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00470
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00188
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00094

Measured 11d ago against content hash 8e99623c2509, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

youtube-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 11d ago.

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/youtube-research/SKILL.md · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

YouTube Research with Scribefy

You have four Scribefy tools. Three are free; one costs credits. The core discipline of this skill: spend free calls to make every paid call count.

Tool Cost Use for
search_videos Free Finding candidate videos by query
get_video_metadata Free Vetting a candidate before extraction
get_related_videos Free Expanding from a good seed video
extract_transcript 1–8 credits by video length — cached extracts are FREE The actual transcript

The workflow

1. Search wide (free)

Run search_videos with 2–3 different phrasings of the question — YouTube search rewards different keyword angles ("PO3 trading strategy" vs "power of three ICT explained"). Collect ~5–10 candidates.

2. Vet before you spend (free)

Call get_video_metadata on the shortlist. Decide using:

  • Duration — extraction cost scales with length (1 credit for short videos up to 8 for very long ones). A focused 12-minute video usually beats a 3-hour podcast that mentions the topic once.
  • Caption tracks — the metadata lists every track and marks it ✏ authored or ⚙ auto-generated. Authored captions give cleaner text. No caption tracks listed → do not attempt extraction (it will fail with NO_CAPTIONS); pick another candidate.
  • Recency and channel — for fast-moving topics, check the upload date before trusting the content.

3. Extract selectively (paid — usually 1–2 videos, not 10)

Call extract_transcript on the best 1–2 candidates first. Read them. Only extract more if the question is still open.

  • Cached transcripts cost 0 credits — popular videos are often already cached, and re-extracting the same video is always free. Never hesitate to re-pull a video you've extracted before.
  • For non-English videos, pass the language code of the caption track you saw in metadata. Extract in the original language and translate in-chat — that preserves nuance better than hunting for a translated track.

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 lines

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 · 86 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 8e99623c2509

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youtube-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository MKirovBG/scribefy-mcp (1 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 940 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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