video-transcript

video-transcript is a skill for Claude Code from notque/vexjoy-agent. It costs 16 tokens per session (600 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool that downloads a video's subtitles or automatic captions and cleans them into readable paragraphs. It uses yt-dlp to retrieve captions from online videos.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create text transcripts from videos, optionally with timestamps or captions in another language.
Why use it?
It makes spoken video content searchable and easier to read without watching the entire recording.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: agent in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to create text transcripts from videos, optionally with timestamps or captions in another language.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/notque/vexjoy-agent/video-transcript
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 notque/vexjoy-agent --skill video-transcript
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/notque/vexjoy-agent

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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Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 600 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 $0.00016 $0.00600
Opus 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00240
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00120
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00060

Measured 25d ago against content hash d6b01b008cc2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

video-transcript 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 25d ago.

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

skills/research/video-transcript/SKILL.md · 68 lines

What it actually says

Video Transcript

Pull a video's transcript as readable paragraphs. Two paths, in order:

Path 1 — uploader subtitles (accurate, prefer when present):

yt-dlp --skip-download --write-subs --sub-langs en --sub-format vtt \
  -o '<work-dir>/%(id)s' '<URL>'

Path 2 — auto-generated captions (fallback when path 1 writes no file):

yt-dlp --skip-download --write-auto-subs --sub-langs en --sub-format vtt \
  -o '<work-dir>/%(id)s' '<URL>'

Then clean the VTT into paragraphs:

python3 skills/research/video-transcript/scripts/vtt_to_paragraph.py <work-dir>/<id>.en.vtt

Default output is plain paragraph text with [Music]-style cues stripped and the rolling duplicates of auto-captions deduplicated. Use --timestamps for [mm:ss] markers, --keep-brackets to keep cue tags, -o FILE to write to a file.

For other languages, change --sub-langs (e.g. de, en.*). List what a video offers with yt-dlp --list-subs '<URL>'.

Error handling

Both paths write no .vtt file

Cause: video has no subtitles or captions in the requested language. Solution: run yt-dlp --list-subs '<URL>' and pick an available language; if none exist, report that and offer audio transcription via the markdown-converter skill on a downloaded audio file.

HTTP 429 / "Sign in to confirm"

Cause: platform rate-limiting the host. Solution: wait and retry with --sleep-requests 2; keep request volume low.

Cleaner output repeats lines

Cause: VTT came from a third path (e.g. translated captions) with cue formats the dedupe misses. Solution: rerun the cleaner; if repeats remain, file the sample VTT alongside a fix to vtt_to_paragraph.py.

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. 26d ago Changed · -43 lines · +3 tokens per session 0f59c673f5ed
  2. 27d ago Changed d6b01b008cc2
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 68 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A b103bbb07cae

Subscribe to this mod's changes

video-transcript is a skill published in the GitHub repository notque/vexjoy-agent (442 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 600 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.

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