yt-to-course

yt-to-course is a skill for Claude Code from naveedharri/benai-skills. It costs 145 tokens per session (2,674 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow that turns a YouTube video into a structured online course package for Circle, a community and course platform. It can create lessons, video clips, lesson text, and upload-related files for either a new course or an existing one.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to split videos into lessons, write lesson material, and prepare the files needed to add the course to Circle.
Why use it?
It removes the manual work of turning a long video into focused, self-paced lessons while keeping the course workflow in the required order.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the all-skills plugin — 109 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to split videos into lessons, write lesson material, and prepare the files needed to add the course to Circle.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/naveedharri/benai-skills/yt-to-course
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 naveedharri/benai-skills --skill yt-to-course
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/naveedharri/benai-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install all-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 109 skills.

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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 2,674 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 $0.00145 $0.02674
Opus 5 $0.00072 $0.01337
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00535
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00267

Measured today against content hash bf373b4917bc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

yt-to-course 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 today.

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.

plugins/all-skills/skills/yt-to-course/SKILL.md · 198 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 198 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

YouTube to Course Material

Turn YouTube videos into structured, ready-to-upload course content for the BenAI Accelerator community on Circle. Two output types: a full new course (long-form, multi-section videos) or new lessons added to an existing course (shorter, topic-specific videos).

Pipeline Position

This skill is step 2 of 2 in the YouTube repurposing pipeline.

  1. yt-to-community: community post + thumbnail. Always runs first.
  2. yt-to-course (this skill): course material. Runs only after the post is done and the user has confirmed.

If a YouTube URL lands in chat and the community post hasn't been created yet, do not start here. Hand back to yt-to-community. The pipeline order is fixed: post first, course second.

Why This Exists

Community members are professionals running businesses. They don't have time to watch hour-long YouTube videos end-to-end. So we cut videos into focused lessons, write lesson copy around each clip, and structure it as a self-paced course in Circle. This skill automates ingestion, section planning, lesson writing, and cutting. The only manual step is uploading the clips into Circle's course builder (the Circle API doesn't expose course-lesson CRUD).

Profile boundary

All output writes to Profiles/Milan/. Course packages land in Profiles/Milan/Community/course-packages/{date}-{slug}/. See [[yt-pipeline SPEC|SPEC.md]] for the full invariant.

The Flow

Step 1: Ingestion

If invoked from yt-to-community (the normal pipeline path): the community post step has already run yt-ingestion-agent and you've been passed an ingestion manifest. Reuse it. Do not re-run ingestion. it wastes minutes and re-downloads gigabytes. Only the video file and word-level timestamps may need a top-up if the community post run skipped them (community-only runs sometimes do).

If invoked standalone (user explicitly asked for course material on a video that already has a post, or skipped the post intentionally): invoke the yt-ingestion-agent sub-agent with the YouTube URL and target output directory. The agent handles:

  • Download (yt-dlp fallback chain for SABR/PO-token blocks)
  • Transcript (3-method priority: MCP, youtube-transcript-api, user-provided)
  • Word-level timestamps (faster-whisper)
  • Thumbnail
  • Metadata

Read the full file on GitHub · 198 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. today First seen · 198 lines · 145 tokens per session scan A bf373b4917bc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

yt-to-course is a skill published in the GitHub repository naveedharri/benai-skills (61 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 145 tokens to every session and 2,674 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-09-12.

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