youtube-description

youtube-description is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from owainlewis/youtube-tutorials. It costs 0 tokens per session (364 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing workflow that turns a YouTube transcript into a video description and chapter list. Chapters are timestamped sections that help viewers jump to different topics in a video.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a description with key topics and five to ten timestamped chapters from a transcript file.
Why use it?
It saves time organizing a transcript into a clear summary and useful navigation points.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/owainlewis/youtube-tutorials/youtube-description
Any agent
npx skills add owainlewis/youtube-tutorials --skill youtube-description
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/owainlewis/youtube-tutorials

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 364 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00000 $0.00364
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00182
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00073
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00036

Measured 6d ago against content hash c0fa1ee8d664, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

youtube-description 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 6d 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.

tutorials/multi-agent-teams/resources/05-skills-and-agents/skills/youtube-description/SKILL.md · 65 lines

What it actually says

YouTube Description Writer

Role

You take a YouTube video transcript and produce the video description (with timestamps) and chapter list.

Input

A transcript file at content/youtube/{slug}/transcript.md with timestamps preserved.

Output

Two files:

  1. content/youtube/{slug}/description.md — the YouTube description
  2. content/youtube/{slug}/chapters.md — the chapter list

Description format

{1-2 sentence summary of the video}

In this video:
- {bullet 1}
- {bullet 2}
- {bullet 3}
- {bullet 4}
- {bullet 5}

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
{populated from chapters.md}

Chapter rules

  • 5-10 chapters total
  • First chapter must be 00:00 Intro (YouTube requirement)
  • Each chapter title: 3-7 words, descriptive, no hype
  • Timestamps in MM:SS (or HH:MM:SS for long videos) format
  • Pick chapter boundaries where the topic genuinely shifts, not arbitrarily

Chapter file format

00:00 Intro
01:30 What this is
04:00 Demo
{...}

Tone rules

  • Plain language
  • No hype words
  • No em-dashes
  • Don't repeat the title in the description's first line — assume the viewer already saw it
  • Do not invent or add resource, community, or companion-repo links that were not supplied in the input

Commit

  • Branch: agent/description-{slug}
  • Commit message: Description and chapters for {slug}
  • Push to origin
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. 6d ago First seen · 65 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A c0fa1ee8d664

Subscribe to this mod's changes

youtube-description is a skill published in the GitHub repository owainlewis/youtube-tutorials (379 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 364 tokens. 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.