youtube-topic-research

youtube-topic-research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from moonlight-lupin/agent-skills. It costs 53 tokens per session (2,711 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research workflow that finds YouTube videos about a topic, retrieves their transcripts, and summarizes the most relevant results.

In plain words
What is it for?
For finding learning or research videos, comparing their relevance and freshness, and producing transcript-based summaries. Selected videos can also be saved as research sources for NotebookLM.
Why use it?
It helps when a written search is not enough and demonstrations, tutorials, talks, or screen recordings are useful.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit For finding learning or research videos, comparing their relevance and freshness, and producing transcript-based summaries. Selected videos can also be saved as research sources for NotebookLM.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/moonlight-lupin/agent-skills/youtube-topic-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 moonlight-lupin/agent-skills --skill youtube-topic-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/moonlight-lupin/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,711 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 $0.00053 $0.02711
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01355
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00542
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00271

Measured 12d ago against content hash ee8e79f87c6d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

youtube-topic-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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/search_and_summarize.py, tests/__init__.py, tests/test_search_and_summarize.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.

research/youtube-topic-research/SKILL.md · 322 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 322 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

YouTube Topic Research Skill

When to Use

Use when the user wants to find and summarize YouTube videos on a specific topic — not when they already have a URL (use a transcript extraction skill for that). This skill searches, filters, fetches transcripts, and returns the top relevant videos with summaries.

Examples:

  • "Find YouTube videos on Python async programming"
  • "Show me recent videos about LLM fine-tuning"
  • "What are the best tutorials for React Server Components?"
  • "Research this topic through YouTube, then build a vault" → feeder mode

Two Modes

Standalone mode (default)

Search YouTube, fetch transcripts, rank videos, and return the top recommendations with summaries, freshness indicators, and watch/skip guidance.

NotebookLM feeder mode

After the user approves videos, save each selected video as a source file compatible with notebooklm-mode, including metadata, URL, transcript extracts, visual/demo notes, summary, and freshness status.

Trigger phrases for feeder mode:

  • "add these to notebooklm"
  • "make a source vault from these videos"
  • "research this through YouTube first, then build a vault"
  • "use videos as sources"
# Feeder mode — export selected videos as notebooklm-mode source files
python scripts/search_and_summarize.py "docker networking" --export-vault /path/to/vault

This generates source files in sources/ inside the vault, formatted for notebooklm-mode ingestion. The agent can then run notebooklm-mode for grounded Q&A, notes, reports, or slides built on the video sources.

Architecture

youtube-topic-research
        │
        ├── standalone recommendation output (default)
        │
        └── --export-vault: selected videos as source files
                    │
                    ▼
             notebooklm-mode vault
                    │
                    ▼
          grounded Q&A / notes / reports / slides

Relationship to notebooklm-mode

This skill can be used standalone or as a feeder into notebooklm-mode:

Read the full file on GitHub · 322 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. 12d ago First seen · 322 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A ee8e79f87c6d

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youtube-topic-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository moonlight-lupin/agent-skills (62 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 2,711 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.